April 1942. "Baker's Garage in Wisdom, Montana. Largest town, population 385, in the Big Hole Basin, a trading center ... inhabitants eventually changed the name to "Boredom, Montana."
Towns like this Towns like this are a staple of western North ...
March 1942. "Helena, Montana." Now playing at the Marlow: Sullivan's Travels and Paris Calling ... on how to pronounce Helena.
Movie travels far from Montana "Sullivan's Travels" is Preston Sturges' highly literate 1941 take ... for an Academy Award.
Merchants National and Montana National A colored postcard view, circa. 1900, of the Montana ...
September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Anaconda smelter. Ore cars and smokestack." Acetate negative by ... which bowl game -- if any -- Utah would compete against Montana, but they're definitely facing off in the most photogenic mining ... tests my loyalty,
Answer: Right there at Anaconda, Montana Question: Where were the bricks made to build the smokestack?
I ...
March 1942. "Wheeler, Montana. Boom town of the Fort Peck construction era, now nearly deserted." ... on Fort Peck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Peck,_Montana
Originally an Indian trading post, in the 1930s this was a WPA ...
August 1942. "Big Hole Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana. Buildings on the main street of Wisdom, Montana, trading center for the Big Hole Valley. This is cattle country." ...
... "Store building at Alger [i.e. Archer], Sheridan County, Montana." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security ... County: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_County,_Montana#Communities
[ Au contraire. -Dave]
I believe ...
June 1939. Big Horn County, Montana. "Cowhands singing after day's work. Quarter Circle U Ranch roundup." ... for the excellent photos, Dave.
Boone H
Roundup, Montana
(The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Camping, Music, Rural America) ...
... funnels.
Bare Knuckle Bout Watch your step.
Montana peak Note the campaign hats shown being worn by some of these Kiwi ... kind of hat with that crown configuration -- the so-called Montana peak. The US Army abandoned the hat shortly after we entered WWII, for ...
Butte, Montana, in September 1942. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee, Office ... and much of it is familiar. The closest I've ever been to Montana was the license plate on a rented car in California. I'm hoping our ... pictures of the area I am describing?
Seeing Butte, Montana To see Butte you have to want to see it as the city is located, for ...
August 1941. "Highway near Havre, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm ... this road is today's Highway 2, also called the Skyline. Montana and North Dakota roads like this remind me of the old joke: "My dog ran ...
... April 1942. "Service station. Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana." You want Coke with that? Medium format negative by John Vachon for ... View full size.
That oil stove/furnace in Montana I imagine got a good workout in the winter months. Looks like a ...
June 1939. Birney, Montana. "Dude playing a slot machine." Medium format negative by Arthur ... meant dude as in a dude ranch, not as in "duuude."
Montana Slim Our photo subject has a 31-inch waist.
Levi's 501s ...
September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Anaconda Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. The smokestack is ... smelter from 1916 until the 1960s. This photo from the Montana State Library shows the third rail locomotives used only at the ...
... ago. Everyone buckled in? Let's go!
"Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 weeks Vacation. June 27, 1964." This Kodachrome of a ... other.
Memories of summer trips We also lived in Montana back then, and our family truckster in the 1960s was a 1963 Rambler ...
June 1939. Custer County, Montana. "Cattle thief hanged in effigy along U.S. Highway 10 to provide ... sign painter missed a number, but 3-7-77 is everywhere in Montana, including on the Highway Patrol uniform and Big Sky Brewing products. ... for the numbers, which seem to have first appeared in Montana in 1879. A widely accepted theory is the dimensions of a grave, 3' x 7' ...
April 1942. "Missoula, Montana. Tourist apartments." The "Strictly Modern" Beauty Ress Court . ... me begin to wonder why this, why that.
[Carports: Montana winters. - Dave]
Dave: I come from Manitoba winters where ... be doing a lot of wind-related shoveling, whether in Montana or Manitoba.
JennyPennifer: I figure those bedsprings are to keep ...
June 1939. "Dudes in town. Billings, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement ... seriously by hard-working, clod-busting, cattle-driving Montana cowboys. Incidentally, when I was a kid growing up in industrial Connecticut, a friend of mine had a theory that Montana was a fictional place, like Atlantis or Brigadoon, since NONE of our ...
October 1942. "Scrap and salvage depot in Butte, Montana." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Office of War ... cemetary, and Trevillion (memorials) is still there across Montana. This lot would be along the old tracks, probably where the fire ...
... with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana." Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee. View full size.
... Tipster: have you ever been in the high country of Montana early in the day? You'd best have a pretty good coat available; ...
Shepherd or Sheep Herder Don't ask me why but out Montana/Idaho way, all the locals call them "sheep herders" not "shepherds." ...