Fayetteville AR, late 1960s
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Originally filmed in 1971. Narrated by my father to my older brother Nick, the child in the film, sometime in the mid 1990s. a clearer video can be seen here: • Fayetteville AR 1971 f...
Opens with Drake Field Airport
0:37 Welcome to Fayetteville sign on US 71(school ave) heading north into town.
2:38 Intersection of US 71(school ave) and US 62(6th/MLKJ blvd)
3:30 Heading North on Archibald Yell.
4:46 Mountain Inn at left. Courthouse at right.
4:55 Ozark Theatre
5:17 Pan from North to South view of the Square. filmed from East side. See the old JC Penney and where Tiny Tim's Pizza is currently located.
6:25 View of downtown from the Cross on Mount Sequoia.
8:45 view looking East over Campus Dr. at Memorial Hall.
9:45 Behind Old Main. Now blocked off from traffic. Filmed from the current location of the Fulbright Fountain.
10:00 William St. location of the Harmon Ave Parking Facility today.
10:24 view looking North. To left is Science/Engineering. Bell Engineering now stands to the right of this and would obscure view of Old Main Tower.
I found the original super 8 reel and can confirm that the year is 1971. My father's recollection of the date had become a little fuzzy over the years.
Terry Thielen Oh, wow. So I was living just three blocks from the intersection of 6TH St. And School St. when this was filmed. You were just blocks from me when filming at that point. That makes this film even more amazing for me to watch. 😆
You Dad sounds a little like John Wayne, I like it! Nice video!! Its nice that someone like him was thinking ahead that in the future we might want to look back on our nice little city of Fayetteville.
Damn. This was before when Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville, and all other towns in between were separate of each other. Now it seems like it’s all just one city.
They are saying between the 4 cities we will have a million people here by 2050. Double than what it is now.
Probably more if California and New York continues to fade and the south(Texas, Florida) begins to take its place. We will benefit from their success if that happens.
I'm a young Arkansan (22) and this little piece of history made my evening. Crazy to see how much things have changed.
Haha, I love this so much. Definitely going on my favorite list. :)
I uploaded a new version of this film. I re-filmed the original film. It's much cleaner and clearer. If you enjoyed watching this for the old images, then you should appreciate the new version. It doesn't have my father's commentary.
Oh I would love to see that! Is it still online after all these years?
@@dwaynecollins4974 yes, it should still be on my channel.
Your dad doesn't sound like he is from Arkansas to me. I am from Louisiana and don't know all the accents, but my cousin grew up in Little Rock. She sounds like more of a country girl than your dad. He seems like a nice guy, and your mom was very pretty, probably still is.
I just graduated from the UofA, if your father did as well I've probably walked over his name on the sidewalk many times :) and rest assured that memorial hall has not been renovated since this video was filmed. Seriously, the women's bathroom is still labeled "powder room" and has big pink plastic chairs in it lol
As a Fayetteville native, I love this video. Thank you. Sincerely.
Awesome Video!!! Soooo glad your father thought to do this!!
Thank You Uploaded!!!
CHEERS!
Thanks for the memories.
you said Pizza Hut and confirmed what I thought I was looking at. Penguin Eds BBQ is down on the right @4:30. We take the first exit off 530 and go the back way when we go to the games. COOL VID !
I watched the original film again and can add that the movie playing at the Ozark Theatre was Pinocchio.
Very enjoyable--we moved here in 1967.
Joan Philip That's the year I was born and I grew up right in the area of Fayetteville shown in this film. It is an awesome blast from the past. 😃
Wow this is amazing! I live right next to drake field!
Awesome Video. This is what Fayetteville looked like when my mom and dad moved us back up. Thank you for posting!
This video is SO interesting to me. I grew up on S. Washington St. down there in south Fayetteville and a lot of what you caught on film are all places I remember so well from my childhood. I was born in June of 1967 and lived in that area of Fayetteville from 1969 to 1980. I am 50 years old now and I love seeing old films and photos of Fayetteville where I grew up. I don't know exactly what month and year this film of yours was shot, but it looks to be at least a couple of years before my time. However, much of what I see in the film was still there when I was a child.
The intersection of MLK (6th St.) and School St. is so different from when I was a child just a few years later after this film that I barely recognize it. Dillon's Grocery Store was on the SE corner, Otasco Store was on the NE corner of that intersection, a feed mill and old house was on the NW corner, and Vaughn Battery has been on the SW corner ever since I can remember and still is. In your film, there appears to be an old white house where Otasco Store would eventually sit and is now Walgreens.
All of what you filmed is so incredibly interesting to me because of old memories and times gone by and being blessed to see things in this film that no longer exist in the area where I grew up. I remember riding my bike around this whole School St. area when I was a kid. I don't get down to south Fayetteville very often anymore, but when I do I am amazed at how much has changed there. I hardly recognize it now.
I noticed the little building that used to be Hoot's Chicken Drivein there close to that intersection of MLK and School St. was there in this ifilm. It was very cool seeing that. Used to eat lots of chicken from there. Archibald Yell looked virtually the same except the Pizza Hut at the bottom where the first curve is and that Pizza Hut has been there since the early 70's. I actually think it is now some Chinese buffet place now. I loved that Pizza Hut.
I enjoyed hearing you all talk about what is on the film as it ran. It made me feel like I could remember things in the film better because of your narration. I do appreciate you posting this video for those of us from Fayetteville to be able to see and remember. I miss the simple days of the 70's. Thank you for helping so many of us out here go down memory lane with you. Oh, and the old Corvair is Cool! 😃
Actually the Pizza Hut is still there and there's a Chinese or Oriental restaurant next to it in the same parking lot more or less 😊
wow i wasnt alive then but im glad someone got a video of it then to see ho much has changed since then
Thanks for the upload. I live not far from Drake Field. Fayetteville has changed so much since I moved here in 1991.
Thanks for the video, I can tell how touched your son was by his silence, I was too. I had Architecture studio classes in Vol Walker which was the Library, now a brand new Architecture addition is being built right now to the west of Vol Walker between the Mullins Library.
1960s vloging lol
I'm glad you enjoyed the film and if you haven't watched my other upload of this film, please do. It's much clearer. I added the link to it in the video description
good history, nice to hear it from a local.
Awesome to see this video I cant wait till November when I visit.
I was born here and have lived here for my whole life. But I'm still a kid so that's not too long
Cool. Near Cockrill road and Sunrise mountain. I married a cockrill and they still live near there.
The building west of JC Penney is Woolworth's.
What a cool video I'm glad I came across it
This video is just amazing. I live in Fayetteville and my father graduated from the U of A in the early 80s. Seeing what the Square started out as, and how School Ave. was residential, Fayetteville surely IS growing. It is too bad the University sucked up a lot of property, but it's for the better cause, right?
There's still a few houses left on South school but only because the university hasn't got to them yet. I really enjoyed seeing the street looking like a town instead of what it is now..
very cool!!
Look at all the Beetles!
As a new resident of Fayetteville ( 5 yrs Sept 2018), I appreciate seeing the way Fayetteville looked...my new home...thx fo posting.
thanks for the video. we moved to bentonville in 69. every summer wed drive thru springdale and fayetville going to se arkansas. good days
wow always wondered what this city look like i wished yall went by the high school back then
this video is incredible! thank you for uploading it!
Thamk u for this video .
NWA has gone downhill so much since then, i guess it really rapidly going downhill in the early 2000s, i am disappointed
Why do you think it has gone downhill? Because it is too crowded now?
I agree. It's not the same place that it used to be. It's no longer a "small town". You used to be able to go to the square and run into people you knew. Not so much anymore.
Fayetteville has certainly gone downhill in regard to crime and taxes are way too high now. It is too crowded. If it were planned better and planners had done a better job it wouldn't seem so crowded.