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Still Old School: The Oxford Cafe in Missoula
On the corner of Higgins and Pine since 1883 and open 24 hours. Still pouring coffee and plating chicken fried steak with JJ's gravy long after downtown locks up.
Before 1950 · Western Montana
Missoula, Before 1950
Old School Montana lists 3 places in Missoula that are still open: The Oxford Cafe (est. 1883), Missoula Club (est. 1890), and The Roxy Theater (est. 1937). Missoula is in Missoula County, in Western Montana.
The rivers meet here, and so do a lot of Montana stories. Sooner or later, most of them cross Higgins.
Before 1950 · 1980s · 1990s
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Back Then in Missoula
Still Old School in Missoula
Drink · Montana Original
Missoula Club
The motto is "Warm Beer, Cold Burgers." Read it twice. Serving Missoula since 1890, and somewhere along the way everybody started calling it the Mo Club.
Eat · Montana Original
The Oxford Cafe
Downtown Missoula's all-night kitchen since 1883. Locals shortened the name to the Ox a long time ago, and nobody has needed the long version since.
See
The Roxy Theater
A 1937 neighborhood screen that burned, got rebuilt, sat dark for years, and came back anyway. The neon on South Higgins looks like 1937 again.
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Growing Up in Missoula in the '90s
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.
You're Old School Montana if... you were watching the river for runoff the same week everybody else was talking about graduation
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