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 | March 8, 2010
My previous post about Briggsville and George Briggs was based on the following article from the Missoulian, Feb. 15, 1893. It seems like this is a pretty important piece of Missoula’s history, and there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries within. One is the reference to Prof. J. M. Hamilton, the president of “the university” [...]
admin | March 7, 2010
Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]
admin | January 29, 2010
Thanks to Minie Smith for pointing this out. She’s been researching the Fires of 1910 for the Fort Missoula museum and came across a large ad in the Aug. 20, 1910, Missoulian (the day the fires took off). There’s a photo of the Merc in the middle top with “1885″ on one side and “1910″ [...]
admin | November 27, 2009
Annick Drosdal-Levillain got back to me early Thanksgiving Day, too late for her thank you to the people of Missoula to get in the paper yesterday. The story, headlined “Missoula Cemetery mystery unraveled,” was a follow-up on a Nov. 7 feature on her quest to chase down the ghost of her great-grandfather, Haakon Hauge, who [...]
admin | November 24, 2009
Warren Davis, editor and publisher of the Daily Missoulian, weighed in on a difficult subject this week in 1932: Thanksgiving. “There have been last Thursdays in Novembe of other years that maybe better exemplified the nationwide thought of Thanksgiving than does this day of 1932,” he wrote on the editorial page on Nov. 24. They [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
One thing that led to the initial success of the Aber Day keggers in Missoula was their time in Montana history. The first kegger was in 1972, the last in 1979. In 1972, the legal drinking age in Montana was lowered from 21, where it had been since Prohibition ended, to 18. That meant all [...]
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 [...]
admin | September 9, 2009
Charles Lindbergh was the kind of guy around whom tales grew with the telling. So you have to be careful about those stories surrounding his visit to Montana in September 1927, which I touched on in Sunday’s Montana History Almanac. He was arguably the most famous man in the world when he flew the “Spirit [...]
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