admin | May 27, 2010
I especially get the urge to get back to the battlefield this time of year. My daughter and I drove right by 10 days ago — in a nice electric storm on the plains, not the snowy white palette pictured to the right. We couldn’t stop. Here’s a tidbit that I found and am including [...]
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 | January 6, 2010
My name is Carl Beebe and I started working at the Missoula Mercantile in 1961 in the basement of the china department while still in high school, and after the military and a degree from the University of Montana, I would leave “The Merc” as the assistant store manager a year after it was absorbed [...]
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