Eat · Montana Original
Borrie's
Four generations on Smelter Avenue. Decades-old recipes for the sauce, soup and dressing, and thousands of ravioli rolled by hand every week.
Cascade County
Cascade County, Montana. We've got 3 towns from here so far: Black Eagle, Great Falls and Neihart. There are 3 places, 4 Back Then stories and 5 memories on the site.
Towns
Still Old School in Cascade County
Do · Montana Original
Showdown Montana
The oldest operating ski hill in Montana, about 67 miles from Great Falls. A handful of chairs, a saloon, and no reason to pack a suitcase.
Drink · Montana Original
Sip 'n Dip Lounge
A 1962 motor inn lounge that never quit being one. There were swimmers behind the window first. Then came the mermaids.
Back Then in Cascade County
Back Then
Growing Up in Great Falls in the '80s
The stack fell in 1982. The Giants became the Dodgers in 1984. Holiday Village had a rough 1989. The rest of the decade is yours to tell.
Back Then · Then & Now
Then & Now: The Black Eagle Stack
You could see the Anaconda Co. stack from 25 miles out for most of a century. It came down on September 18, 1982, and it took two tries.
Back Then · Remember This?
Remember This? Buttrey Food & Drug
Buttrey's started as a little store in 1896, landed in Havre in 1902, put KFBB on the air in 1922, and turned into Albertsons in 1998. Some of us still give directions by it.
Back Then · Remember This?
Remember This? Eddie's Supper Club in Great Falls
Campfire steaks, a piano, and four generations of Newmans. Until June 2017, Eddie's Supper Club was where Great Falls went when dinner was the plan.
Memories from Cascade County
You're Old School Montana if... you remember exactly where you were the day they dropped the stack
You're Old School Montana if... you watched a mermaid swim behind the bar and nobody at your table thought twice about it
You're Old School Montana if... you packed up for a ski day up Highway 89 and still called the hill by its old nickname
You're Old School Montana if... you could spot a supper club from the road by the early dinner crowd and a lot full of pickups
You're Old School Montana if... your whole Friday night plan was the gym under bad lights, and nobody needed a backup