Still Old School
Montana Bar
Turn at Montana.
The Story
Miles City's Main Street bar since 1908. Original Italian tile, embossed tin ceilings, a bar that came by steamboat, and a Montana-shaped neon sign out front.
In 1908 James Kenney moved his bar to Main Street in Miles City. It’s still there, and so is a lot of the room. His name is set in tile at the entrance. The floor is the original Italian tile. The ceilings are embossed tin. The stand-up bar arrived by steamboat in 1912, and a 1914 National Cash Register still sits on the back bar.
Outside, the Montana-shaped neon is how people give directions downtown. Turn at Montana.
Eastern Montana bars come and go. This one kept the room, right down to the floor.
Stand at the bar. It came a long way by boat for that.
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Still Old School: The Montana Bar, Where Miles City Turns at Montana
Why It's Still Old School
Kenney's name in the tile, a stand-up bar that came upriver by steamboat in 1912, and a neon Montana that downtown Miles City still steers by.
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- Address
- 612 Main St., Miles City, MT, 59301
- Phone
- 406-234-5809
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While You're Here
Still Old School · Miles City · Before '50
Still Old School: The Montana Bar, Where Miles City Turns at Montana
On Main Street in Miles City since 1908. Original tile underfoot, embossed tin overhead, and a neon Montana out front that people still give directions by.
Montana Original
Historic Miles City Saddlery
The phone still rings about old chaps.
Worth the Drive
Jersey Lilly
Bean soup in a bank vault town. The outhouses are labeled.
Still Kicking
Beer Jug
A fire in 2018. The brat came back anyway.