Yesterdays: Dial phones and strange numbers to make a call
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Whitefish High School students cleaning graffiti off the walls of the Bad Rock Canyon in April, 1965. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
June 8, 1956
Columbia Falls would go to dial telephones within the week, with the prefix Twinbrook 2. A typical phone number, for example, would be Twinbrook 2-5565. Unthinkable today.
60 years ago
June 10, 1966
A heavy snow in places like Martin City was more damaging to utilities than the Flood of ’64 a newspaper story noted. The snow came June 3-4. All told about 11 inches of slushy snow fell in places like West Glacier, taking down numerous powerlines and trees.
50 years ago
June 10, 1976
Ten hikers on the Avalanche Creek trail in Glacier National Park came upon some grizzlies. Three of them went up trees to avoid the bears. No one was injured.
40 years ago
June 11, 1986
The Hungry Horse Dam was spilling water rather than producing power. One reason was for fish, but another reason was so they could paint the towers between the dam and the Conkelly substation that went to the aluminum plant. West Glacier submitted a petition to form its own school district, which survives today.
30 years ago
June 6, 1996
Gov. Marc Racicot came to tour the Old Main at the Montana Veterans Home. At the time, Bill Beck was leading the charge to save the old building. The Columbia Falls Historical Society is trying again, 30 years later.
20 years ago
June 8, 2006
Congressman Denny Rehberg was touting $3 million he secured for repairs to the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Meanwhile Sen. Max Baucus had secured about $50 million for repairs.
10 years ago
June 8, 2016
Glacier Park biologist Lisa Bate was recognized with the Jack Potter Glacier National Park Stewardship Award for her research on birds in Glacier. She still is doing critical research on birds in the park as well as bats.