admin | January 24, 2011
This was in the Jan. 24, 1924, Missoulian, under the headline “1,000 At Missoula’s First Ice Carnival: Exceptional Weather Brings Out Large Crowd to Initial Rink Event” Missoula’s first skating carnival was a success. Any doubt in the matter will be settled affirmatively by the crowd of nearly one thousand that lined the circumference of [...]
admin | October 25, 2010
Oct. 25, 1923 Construction of the USS Montana at a shipyard north of San Francisco is halted by terms of a naval arms limitation treaty. The second American war vessel to be named after the Treasure State is more than one-quarter completed. Had she and the other South Dakota-class ships finished, the Montana would have [...]
admin | October 22, 2010
Oct. 22, 1929 Urban Diteman of Billings, dubbed the “Flying Cowboy from Montana,” takes off in a monoplane from the airstrip in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. He is presumably headed for New York. Only his wife knows differently. Diteman hands the manager of the airdrome a sealed letter marked, “Open after departure” to give to a [...]
admin | October 8, 2010
Oct. 8, 1921 Whiskey, moonshine, gin, wines, sherry and home brew are among the booty displayed in the automobile of Lloyd Wallace, assistant county attorney of Missoula. A truck is called in later to haul several other cases of liquors to county attorney Campbell’s cache in the courthouse during raids on illicit bootlegging operations in [...]
admin | April 5, 2010
Kris Crawford of Target Range sends along a photo of the old Kelley family house (as in Kelley Island) which she says was known as the “Pepperpot.” It was a speakeasy during prohibition. I’m trying to download the photo here, but I’m being told the file is too big, so I’ll have to get help. [...]
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 | March 10, 2010
A couple of posts ago we discussed what little we found out about George Briggs and Briggsville, a “suburb” of Missoula in the early 1890s just east of Fort Missoula, where by 1893 paper mills were apparently employing hundreds of women. Here’s George’s death story in the Missoulian, Dec. 16, 1927:
admin | September 12, 2009
This is the fourth of an apparently continuing saga of Charles Lindbergh’s trip to Elbow/Lindbergh Lake in September 1927 (the first three posts are below). What did he do there? Jon Axline, historian for the Montana Department of Transportation, wrote this about that part of Lindbergh’s Montana visit in 2004, in his article “The Lone [...]
admin | September 12, 2009
We’ve been talking about Charles Lindbergh’s “vacation” to what would become Lindbergh Lake in the Upper Swan Valley from Sept. 8-11,1927 (see my two previous posts below). He was escorted there from Butte by Anaconda Co. officials, in the midst of a cross-country tour that included public stops in Butte and Helena. The location of [...]
admin | September 9, 2009
My previous post got into part of the Missoulian’s account of Charles Lindbergh’s vacation to what became Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley. Here’s the rest: “The site for Lindbergh’s camp was selected by a reconnaissance party sent out by John D. Ryan (of New York), chairman of the board of directors of the Anaconda [...]
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