Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Val Jensen started his series of women's apparel stores in 1919 with a naming contest that yielded the Criterion. He continued with the Little Shop at 5 N. 2nd before moving to 5 S. 1st in 1933 and formally naming the store Val Jensen's. It closed in 1957. Thanks to his son Val E. Jensen for contributing to this post.

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