June is Dairy Month - a promotion with a Princess, a parade on Main Street and kids costume contest. File photos courtesy of the Union Bulletin, June 8 1956.

Naimy Furniture

Kurt's and State Hardware

 

Princess Joann Arbogast on right

Bonser-Fiedler behind Princess Joann Arbogast in a 1955 Ford

59ers stagecoach delivers the Stagecoach film to the Liberty Theater for the area premier, July 6 1966. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Police motorcycle leads the stagecoach

Paul Laminack, theater manager, receives film.

Dairy Princess Deanna Depping

Miss Walla Walla Paula Batt

Walla Walla Twins

Wes Sumerlin at the reins

Dairy Wives of Walla Walla County selected a new Dairy Princess each year from 1955 to 1966. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Dorothy Weaver was the first in this new statewide event, 1955

Candidates for 1956 at the milk bar

Judy Arbogast (right) served for 1956

Judy Arbogast rides in Ford convertible by Bonser-Fiedler's at 123 E. Main St., and WW Produce Company (distant right)

Candidates for 1957. Nancy Thomas won.

Virginia Nelson, 1958

Elberta Meador, 1959

Beverly Riley, 1960. In the Whitman Hotel Bamboo Room.

Mayor Chester Maxey crowns Judy Burleson for 1961 at a banquet at Whitman Hotel

National Dairy Princess (right) attended and received a gift pack from the Walla Walla Twins, Francis and Linda Schille

The 1962 Princess rode in parade convertible. Her name is unknown at present.

Kaye Cummins, 1963

Carol Saucier, 1964

Nancy Sauer (right) was the Princess for 1965 seen here at the 1966 coronation of  Deanna Depping (2nd from left)

Deanna Depping was the last Dairy Princess as this event folded after 1966.
This photo of the Fair Parade passing Gardner's at 3rd and Main by Howard Ludwigs, Sept 3 1966.