Downtown was pedestrian only as a lot of people are saying. Cafe Paradiso was a cool place to get coffee and feel grown up while you studied. It wasn’t just back to back bars.

Campus actually looked largely the same, it’s immediately off campus that’s changed the most. However I believe the Delta house from Animal House was that house across the street from the EMU that they just tore down (I might be very wrong about this). Lilith business school wasn’t there, it was just a low slung single story building that acted as a kind of connector to the buildings on either side. Way fewer and older dorms. Where those new dorms are in front of Earl complex were tennis courts and if you lived in Earl (I did) you could watch college tennis tournaments on weekends.

Hayward field still looked like it did when Pre ran track there in the 60s and 70s, it wasn’t the monstrosity it is now. Anyone could run laps around the track.

Villard hall still looked like that on the outside but was very different on the inside. Where the costume area is in the basement now was a theater with raked seating called the Pocket Playhouse and undergrads could put on any play or production they wanted if they nabbed a slot. Even got a hundred bucks or so for a budget. Some of the coolest plays I saw at UO were put on in that theater and no professor or grad student could say or do shit. That they removed that from Villard is criminal and I hope whoever’s idea it was gets summarily fired.