I’m in the town of Butte Montana ,I needed some brake shoes and decided to stay the night and have a look around
It’s a beautiful town in it’s run down way and has a lot of history mainly to do with copper mining It’s Friday night and the main Street seems deserted .
The busiest Cafe is the community Cafe ,as I walk passed someone invites me in, the food s great and it’s free he says ,I thank him and find a small Irish bar around the corner, The owner sponsors the local rugby team and said there’s quite a number of teams in the competition .he says the population is about 35000
it used to be about 100,000 but it’s starting to increase again
It’s the site if America’s biggest single mini disaster,168 killed in one incident
There’s still copper mining but it’s all open cast now
There’s some Great brick buildings here and the one that took my attention was a magnificent hotel. It looked empty but I found the door open and went in ,it was like stepping back to the 1920s,
I nearly missed the little lady behind the desk, she reminded me of Ronnie Corbett ln his big chair, she gave me the history of the place and allow me to look around .Next to the foyer was an equally stunning dining room ,all the tables were set in the 1920 s setting but the place was empty .I took a couple of photos,thanked the little lady and left
Check out the exterior fire escape
I liked Butte a lot
The riding was great all day by the way