Fire guts iconic M&M bar in Uptown Butte

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[mylife]

I adore places like this, tons of pics at site

[dainbramaged]

Butte, Montana - the birthplace of Evel Knievel.

[mylife]

Blatz on tap

[Howie66]

Egads! They still brew that crap?

[mylife]

Not the finest town in Montana but a real shame

[mylife]

do they still make lone star or pearl?

[forgotten man]

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?

[G Larry]

“I yelled ‘FIRE’ when I fell into a vat of Chocolate”.....

[lee martell]

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.

[mylife]

No idea but it is a hard scrabble mining town

[Godzilla]

Not the finest town in Montana but a real shame

Those of us here disagree.

[mylife]

complete loss

[MplsSteve]

“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.

[BipolarBob]

Women wear pasties, you don’t eat them.

[xp38]

Not a mask in sight. I suppose the pic might be pre pandemic though.

[Bell Bouy II]

you don’t eat them

you do if your real lucky

[mylife]

popular mining fare

[forgotten man]

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.

[BipolarBob]

Sounds close to shepards pie. Maybe it’s miners pie?

[Larry Lucido]

I was picturing something like this.