Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Tompkins family grain elevator was built in the 1920s as the first privately-owned concrete elevator in Washington State. It is still in place about 5 miles NE of Clyde on the Lyons Ferry highway, and now owned by the McGregor Company. Photos courtesy of Ronald Tompkins.

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; about 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2024