Gas stations of 1955. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Savage.

Green Park Mobil, Clinton & Isaacs



Harold's Shell, 500 S 9th

Pete's Mobil, 250 E Alder

Commercial Tire Service Texaco; old Keylor Grand Theater flyloft

Tom Brooks Union 76, 410 N 4th



Warren's Conoco, 202 N 2nd

Starbuck School in Columbia County; its yearbook for 1950, the "Shamrock". (Another short venture over the County line; the 28th in the Beyond Walla Walla series)

Basketball team

Home Economics



Cheerleaders

Typing class

Waitsburg High School group portraits courtesy of Mary Lieberman Phillips.

Waitsburg High School Co-ed ball, 1943

Junior Prom, 1939

1934

October 1927

Rainbow Dance, ca1935

Band, ca1938



Orchestra, ca1937

Shelton's Cafe opened in 1934 at 17 East Alder, and was closed and razed in 1960.

Raymer & Shelton, April 1934

James Raymer was a grocer; Raymond Shelton was a clerk at Shep's




Shelton's Menu 1940 courtesy of Mary Phillips



Ted Porter and Bill Schiffman worked it in this 1949 ad.

Wayne Dickey and Conrad Heimbigner operated it in this 1953 ad

Conrad Heimbigner and the Café staff, 1957

Conrad Heimbigner last owner and operator, December 1959

Waitresses; Marcy Petrelli on left, Dec 1959

Café is to the left of the Grand Hotel door on Alder Street in this Fair parade photo. Wagon Wheelers on horses.



Shelton's gone. Grand Hotel was razed in 1962

Downtown businesses and their advertising cards of the 1880s. Images courtesy of the Kirkman House Museum.

White House, Goodstein Brothers



Barrett shoes



Dolan shoes



Dusenbery Brothers shoes & clothing store



George Ludwigs watches, clocks, jewelry

Thomas Eastman store