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                 About Bend

Bend is a land of extremes and contrasts - desert and forest, lava and snow, volcanoes and plains, rustic and urban hip. Everyone here mixes and mingles in a big happy soup pot of snowboarders and professionals, families in shorts and sandals and couples in casual chic, locals and visitors. Maybe that's why people in Bend are so friendly - because most of them were visitors first, too.

 The Brooks-Scanlon Mill's historic 500-foot-long crane shed, known as "Big Red", was the last lumber-storage shed of its kind in the state. The Mill closed in 1994 and the crane shed was demolished on August 19, 2004.


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The "Bend Bug Emblem" in a leaded glass window of the O'Kane Building located on the corner of Bond and Oregon Streets in downtown Bend. Built by Hugh O'Kane in 1916, the O'Kane building was considered the finest example of the Chicago Mercantile Style in Bend.
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