Butte, Montana - Have you been there?

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I've read a bit about this place over the years, sounds fascinating in a wasted sort of way. Former mining boomtown now noted for superfund toxicity. Lots of old buildings in direpair/abandoned as city is now 1/3 of its peak size. Hard drinking/whoring reputation from ye olde days, maybe some of that persists. What's it like if you've ever been?

velko, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

you said "butte"

iiiijjjj, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.imagesbyherb.com/galleries/butte/medium/_1026102-005.jpg

velko, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

had book of 50 cds stolen from me at the greyhound station there

gr8080, Thursday, 24 July 2008 04:02 (seventeen years ago)

:(

velko, Thursday, 24 July 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2613599449_d70670b713.jpg?v=0

and what, Thursday, 24 July 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)

ten years pass...

gonna spend a day here 30 days from now if anyone's got anything neat to say about what's current good and cool in the town that is named BUTTE

del griffith, Friday, 17 May 2019 04:18 (seven years ago)

Butte has a very notorious past, none of it good. Corruption and violence, mainly, but also a lot of drinking, prostitution and gambling for good measure. Chances are good that its ugly past has not entirely vanished. Unless that's your cup of tea.

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:23 (seven years ago)

There’s a former open-pit copper mine there that’s so toxic that the life forms who have evolved in it love eating metal waste and expelling acid that might be useful in treating cancer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:44 (seven years ago)


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