Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan

BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; over 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2025

Monday, February 28, 2022

Photos, news clippings, and ads from the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin newspaper of April 1931. See INDEX for stories on the Big Flood.




















 

Joe Drazan

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Deer hunters (mostly Grogans and Roloffs) from the Weston and Milton-Freewater area display their game at Frank Jackson's Sporting Goods store, 25 W. Main, ca1940-41. Photos courtesy of Helen Roloff Adams.

Vitart Photo


 
Deer in the headlights, or how the venison got to town ? 

Joe Drazan

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Lutheran Church beginnings in Walla Walla. Selected pages from the Centennial Anniversary booklet of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church










Wilber Chapel





Fruitvale picnic




 

Joe Drazan

Friday, February 25, 2022

Very early undated photos of City Park which was later named Pioneer Park in 1931. Photo copies courtesy of the Whitman College Archives.

Airplane over State Fish Hatchery about 1911

Wedding fountain





 

Joe Drazan

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Miscellany of photos, early 1930s to early 1940s, from the family albums of the Beamer and Staggs family albums courtesy of Lori Vincent and Helen Roloff Adams.





Car trouble





Dry Creek School

Dry Creek School



Herman Staggs, WWI Veteran





Skyline Road

Skyline Road

Skyline Road

Staggs Bros. Feed Mill

Table Rock Lookout


 

Joe Drazan
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A librarian at Whitman College, 1972-2005; retired.
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