Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Women's Prison at the Washington State Penitentiary in the 1960s. The building was constructed in 1930 and vacated in 1971 as the 82 inmates were transferred to a new facility at Purdy.

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