Copper is still king, btw. Montana Resources is making a butte-ton of money grinding up the mountains on the edge of town.

https://youtu.be/_-UA0Bc2_PI

Butte is one of my most favorite places in Montana. Such a fascinating, multi-faceted history.

Jodi have you read "Pennies from Hell" by Ed Dobb? Or seen his documentary "Butte, America"?

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Originally posted by jodi:
Copper is still king, btw. Montana Resources is making a butte-ton of money grinding up the mountains on the edge of town.

https://youtu.be/_-UA0Bc2_PI

Glad there is a lot of cleaning up being done.

A sweet story about a Chinese American restaurant in Butte, in the NYT yesterday:

With Chop Suey and Loyal Fans, a Montana Kitchen Keeps the Flame Burning

Beautiful country and lots of it!

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Originally posted by AdagioM:
A sweet story about a Chinese American restaurant in Butte, in the NYT yesterday:

With Chop Suey and Loyal Fans, a Montana Kitchen Keeps the Flame Burning

Jodi, this is the restaurant I wanted to take you to when you came to Butte to house hunt. It was closed that day.

I remember the booths as being green. But I haven't eaten there since the early 90s. It was notorious as an opium den. The history of the Chinese in Butte is fascinating. I had a grad student who did her master's project on the Tong Wars in Butte. There are also underground tunnels in the city. And there used to be a museum of prostitution in an old whorehouse that was incredibly cool.

A friend of mine went recently and said the food wasn’t very good. It’s more about the history at this point, I think. We are seriously lacking in interesting places to eat here.