This video has been circulating over the past few days and it’s pretty remarkable. Originally shot on 8mm film, the short video takes us through town, showing off the startling changes the city has undergone in the past 44 years.
You get to see a very different downtown Bend, complete with the old Pilot Butte Inn, in addition to plenty of super sweet cars.
Bend, Oregon US97 in 1967 (8 MM Movie) (Pilot Butte Inn) from David on Vimeo.
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Fantastic! Thanks for posting.
what a cool time capsule..i zipped thru Bend in 1970 for the 1st time and often wished i had stayed for the duration…i would love to see this in a larger format..
This is great! Would love to see any other historic movies/pictures of this nature. We first started coming to Bend in ’84, then finally moved here in ’89.
Can this movie be remastered? So much looks familiar, but has changed so much, it’d be cool to be able to read street signs…
You should have a long-time Bend resident give a verbal narration of where the video takes us scene by scene….
That’s fun. Things didn’t look very different when I moved here in 1985.
I moved to Bend as a new bride 12/66 and lived here most of those 44 years…thanks for the memories. The film travels the original Hwy 97 starting about where Izzy’s is now heading south. The Texico is at Revere & what we now call 3rd St.& Safeway is still at Franklin & 3rd, turned right onto Franklin heading to downtown, through the underpass, next the Catholic Church on the left, turned right on Bond, then left on Greenwood one block to Wall with Pilot Butte Inn dead ahead, then left on Wall & on toward Drake Park…the end
Here are the notes from the site the video is from.
This old 8mm movie of Bend, Oregon was made in either the Fall of 1967 or early Spring of 1968.
The movie begins at the north “Y” and goes south down US 97 (3rd Street) to Safeway at the corner of Franklin. Then it turns west on Franklin past Murry Holt on the left.
It goes under the underpass and past the old hospital site on the right. The motels (Uptown and City Center) and the service stations are mostly or all gone.
Then it turns right on Bond and left on Greewood to get a nice view of the old Pilot Butte Inn. The Inn was closed by this time, and the furnishings were on sale (red sign)
Then the movie takes us along Wall Street and turns down toward Drake Park
I lived in Bend during this time actually graduated from High School in 1967. Many memories in the film. Wish Bend was still the same.
Love the old Pilot Butte Inn, if only it had been saved! Moved here in 1979.
there were tumbleweeds blowing down Wall Street, sort of depressed, but so fun for a young ski bum.