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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1950)
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1950 PAGE SIX THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON Old Time Pictures Portray Bend of Distant Rangeland Era "Bend, the Beautiful, Welcomes You," Says Street Banner h i . n ... 1 nm.K . Here Is "Bend the beautiful", as portrayed in a picture taken south on Wall street In 1911. One lone car chugs up the unpaved, dusty street. The car is at the Wall-Oregon intersection. At the left, back of the realty company sign, is the pioneer Lara building, now site of the J. C. Penney Co. store. Wall Street, and not an Automobile in Sight ft r r& r ... 4 f J 9 IMr' liil A5 - " tT f-----4- - -. ," v , . fcni n;i,,' .1,1- fn, ufnii i n- in. n i. ihi? voo hn nMnra umc tuUon in 1Q11 nnrth on Wall street. The fit fat bieak in t,iinv a tins luino, t an niiCT;i jii ucnu wmi iiui u tai in aigui J, nit jivihi t . .-.. l.f ., II -,raat enmo the line of wooden buildings at the right is Minnesota avenue. Teams are tied along both sides of the. street. Well up wan sireei, wmt pedestrians are shown walking aross from Oregon. Bend High School, of Pioneer Days Memories of Old Pilot Butte Inn in Year 1908 i-i-, ' jo lj ti&Si v"r!' . - ""i i k i.C, 1 ACi 5 i f M"84-3 1.. . g&SL - vi f fr . . "ftSi rajiit This is Bend's Pilot Butte inn of pioneer days in the distant year 1908. This building, now in a now 4- . I H ?""V"V ' ' it if " location and under anew name, the Colonial Inn, stood on the site of the present inn. Wall street is in "v " ' v V 5' Jir r : ' the foreground -. "Dear old Bend high" of other years is pictured here. Tills was Bend's f list high school. The picture jh f J . SJjS'T "L f mXfi. was taken In 1914. Claude Kelley, donor of the picture, graduated from this school. The school was Of h-:msmfjSii tf"ftLi replaced by a building known in later years as the Central school, later destroyed by fire while I ....A'Kr.ssK.a (,liRiS2!!Slw'& c j ft l Ct -1 C" 1 C. D. J being used as a court house., ... " '"sf Ko Shipment 0677 rroD oencf Winter of the Big Snow? I ; , 4 r4 igW fff ISD : p Hr h.c- - . . . f til iFfsrr i zzJLwwtwfa This picture wasn't taken in January, 1950 it is a picture of Bond street under a four-foot blanket of snow in December, 1919. That snow was the deepest ever known in Bend, and was accompanied by arctic temperatures that Included a low of minus 25. Mere is a building that will revive memories of the oldest of the pioneers a log cabin in Drake park of the present that was Bond's first school house and later the home of the Bulletin. The picture was taken In 1910. This was the first shipment moved out of Bend over the Oregon Trunk railroad following comple tion of the line in 1911. Standing on the car are Art Brinson, Melvin Neely, A. H. Horn, Bob Colver, H. E. Goodman and Clint Pennei. Scott, Bend's First Band, in Distant Year 1903 1 , -'' .v . . . i"sai t'l Leas: 7As LooAs iAe o 12-Horsepovef Outfit V 1 4 - ' ' 4. H B " ... 1 Here Is Bend's first band, In year 1903. From the left they are Gcorjje Myers, Ora Poinriexter, Irvin Reed, Ed Brosternous, an 5 iAtr x Meeker. Tom Ttlplett, Nick Weider. rlyle Trlplett, Barney Lewis. Grant Beck. Prince Staats. John MeClnud and Creed Tilnlett. In front. Lender Warren Glaze. The picture was taken in front of lava ledge, near where Central school later stood. Before the coming of rails, freight was moved Into ihe Bend country from Shaniko by team and wagon. Here is a lone im on.n. , ing Its arrival In Bend. Aboard the wagon were a turbine and gear wheel for Bend's first electric plant The ni t Freight strings were common on rutted, dusty central Oregon roads 40 years ago. but seldom , 19 h fri.'.8. " I910 six and eight horse teams were frequently seen on the long road from Shaniko to Bend. In pionen dav, Swn ll ? , T?' FoUr Freight teams from points as distant as Silver Lake covered the long road'. ' lhc ra"S:
