You're Old School Montana if... you took visiting relatives to see the giant penguin and promised them yes, it really does get that cold
Montana in the 1990s
You probably remember more than you think.
The Montana a lot of people mean when they say they grew up here.
Old School Montana If...
You're Old School Montana if... you soaked in a hot springs pool in January while your hair froze solid
You're Old School Montana if... you still call a grocery store by a name that's been gone since 1998
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... the school play, the dance recital, and the Friday night movie all happened in the same old theater, and nobody thought that was odd
You're Old School Montana if... you drove a long two-lane road to ski a hill where nobody ever waited in line, not once
You're Old School Montana if... your ski jacket carried so many old lift ticket stickers that it practically counted as a résumé
You're Old School Montana if... you could name the bars on Central Avenue before anybody could name a chain hotel
You're Old School Montana if... you were watching the river for runoff the same week everybody else was talking about graduation
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... hunting season lived on the kitchen calendar, not on an app
You're Old School Montana if... you called it the Mo Club, and the only question was cheese or no cheese
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Remember This? · Whitefish · '90s
Remember This? Big Mountain, Which the Map Still Calls Big Mountain
Whitefish's ski hill opened in December 1947 and spent sixty years as Big Mountain before the 2007 rename. Plenty of people never got the memo.
Stories From Then
Remember This? · Whitefish · '90s
Remember This? Big Mountain, Which the Map Still Calls Big Mountain
Whitefish's ski hill opened in December 1947 and spent sixty years as Big Mountain before the 2007 rename. Plenty of people never got the memo.
Back When · Missoula · '90s
Growing Up in Missoula in the '90s, With Your Math Teacher in the Next Aisle
Higgins Bridge, a university town that still acted like a town, and Friday plans that didn't need a group chat. Also, your math teacher in the grocery aisle.
Back When · Montana · '90s
Growing Up in Montana in the '90s, Radio Static Included
Gym lights, mall Saturdays, and a radio that gave up somewhere between towns. The plain old decade a lot of Montanans still mean when they say back then.
Gone, Not Forgotten · Montana · '90s
Remember This? 4B's, Back When the Sign Knew Where the Coffee Was
Before your phone knew where the coffee was, the 4B's sign did. Bill Hainline's family started the Montana chain in 1947, and it disappeared one town at a time.
Montana Originals
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Still Around From Then
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