Footbridge over Deschutes placed in use 40 years ago
Forty years ago this month Bend residents started crossing the Deschutes river on a new footbridge. The bridge crossed the Mirror Pond about half way between the Bend Power & Light Co. plant and...
View ArticleSwan Population Swells to 7
The swan population of Bend’s Mirror Pond stood at seven today, following the arrival of three birds of wide wing spread that joined the four imported last year from the East. Arrival of the strangers...
View ArticlePlans taking final shape for 1962 Mirror Pond Pageant
A program for Bend’s 1962 Mirror Pond Pageant, to be presented on July 27, 28 and 29, was taking final shape today as the framework of a huge arch loomed over the fete scene, the Deschutes River....
View ArticleMirror Pond now a mud flat as PP&L lowers water level
The Mirror Pond basin, through which the Deschutes River raced as a trout-filled stream when Bend was a hamlet early in the century, was an ugly mud flat today. Drainage of the big, lawn fringed basin...
View ArticleA Review: COCC geographer pens volume on Bend history
Compiled by a master researcher, Raymond R. Hatton of Central Oregon Community College, a compact, profusely illustrated book dealing with the history of Bend and attractions that have brought the...
View Article
