Posted on 05/07/2021 10:30:36 AM PDT by mylife
Fire destroyed the iconic M&M Cigar Store in Uptown Butte early Friday morning, taking out the roof and leaving the rest of the building charred and gutted. Nobody was injured but the building was a complete loss.
Firefighters were called to the bar and grill at 9 North Main St. around 3 a.m. and there were 12-foot flames coming from the roof. It took two hours to get the fire under control and two hours after that, crews were still on the scene.
“There was smoke in every orifice of the building,” said Jim Merrifield, a battalion chief with the Butte-Silver Bow Fire Department. “The fire was on the roof and spread throughout the building through the duct work.”
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Butte, Montana - the birthplace of Evel Knievel.
Blatz on tap
Egads! They still brew that crap?
Not the finest town in Montana but a real shame
do they still make lone star or pearl?
My mother was from Butte. I heard all about the M & M Club. There was a lot of gambling going on there, in the back room. I wanted to visit that bar some day. Do they still eat pastys in Butte?
“I yelled ‘FIRE’ when I fell into a vat of Chocolate”.....
A. It looks like the place was well loved. I predict it will be rebuilt. The local people need it, especially as we emerge from our pandemic hibernation.
B. “There was smoke in every orifice of the building.”
That’s a rather odd way to put it, but then the speaker is a battalion chief with the Fire Dept. IOW Shop Talk.
No idea but it is a hard scrabble mining town
Those of us here disagree.
“do they still make lone star or pearl?”
I can find six-packs of Lone Star bottles at my local Total Wine. Not sure about Pearl though.
Women wear pasties, you don’t eat them.
Not a mask in sight. I suppose the pic might be pre pandemic though.
you don’t eat them
you do if your real lucky
popular mining fare
It was beef stew wrapped in pie crust. The miners used to bring them to work in their steel lunch buckets. They put the lunch bucket on the stove down in the mine and ate them for lunch. I ate them when I went to Butte as a kid. I think they were called “pasties” or something like that. They are good.
Sounds close to shepards pie. Maybe it’s miners pie?
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