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 | 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 9, 2010
Keg on. The Aber Day Kegger documentary that premiered last October at the University of Montana will hit the airwaves next Monday night. It’s scheduled for 7 p.m. on KUFM-TV, as part of the station’s semi-annual pledge drive. It’ll repeat Sunday, March 21, at 2 p.m. The DVD will be among the featured premiums for [...]
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 | October 8, 2009
The documentary on the kegger debuts tonight at the University Theater. That’s NOT the newer, smaller UC Theater on the third floor of the University Center, but the old one where, among other events, we children of the ’70s heard K. Ross Toole’s Montana history lectures. Bob McCue, executive producer, said the original thought was [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
Here’s a list of the bands that played the keggers, as provided by the producers of the documentary that debuts tonight at the University Theater: 1972 — (at Deer Creek east of Missoula) Weston Davis Revue, Bitterroot, Big Sky Country Band, Arrow, Tender Green, Oaken Line 1973 — (at Deer Creek) Jasper, Black Cat Bone, [...]
admin | May 20, 2009
Just ran across this report from the 1977 Aber Day kegger, the legendary music/beer fest held through much of the 70s at the now defunct rodeo grounds up Miller Creek. The numbers are remarkable: an estimated 8,000 people and 1,000 kegs. The bands were Tarwater, Bonnie Raitt, Mission Mountain Wood Band and fiddler Doug Kershaw. [...]
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