admin | April 15, 2010
A post of a couple of days ago got into the early history of the Marshall Ski Area east of Missoula, courtesy of a writeup by Anna Sain in 1988-89. Here are more nuggets from Sain’s report: The original log lodge at Marshall, built in the 1940s, became a part of Si and Velma Green’s [...]
admin | April 12, 2010
I grew up in the shadow of Marshall Mountain east of Missoula but as anyone who has seen me ski can tell you, it didn’t do much good. Back then I wouldn’t have had to put “east of Missoula” in that first sentence, because everyone knew where Marshall Ski Area was. It’s been closed to [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | February 22, 2010
From Jeff Herman, friend; former Missoulian sports/copy editor; inventor of the “page stretcher” with which all new copy girls and boys became quickly familiar; Missoula Timberjacks batboy, and the man who, for better or worse, gave me my first shot in the newspapering business in 1974: Just a little footnote for your local history and [...]
admin | August 6, 2009
Just ran across this one from the Aug. 14, 1953, Missoulian: Walter Bodak, Missoula’s parking meter attendant, says people aren’t always plugging the city’s 822 meters with real cash. On his way in to repair a meter head which had been stuffed with chewing gum, he poured out a collection of other “slugs”: – 5 [...]
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