Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: Woodmen of the World from the Inland Empire region converged en masse on Walla Walla May 1st 1903 for initiation ceremonies in the Opera House followed by a banquet for 500 in the Odd Fellows Temple. Photos of the menu printed on a wooden shingle courtesy of Mike & Peggy Needham. Clippings from Walla Walla Union newspaper courtesy of the Whitman College Archives.

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