Yesterdays: Glacier burns down the oldest government building in the park
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The Anaconda Aluminum Co. employee club shortly before it was completed in October, 1956. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Nov. 2, 1956
The first use of the Anaconda Aluminum Co. Employees club was set for Monday. The club, which featured a bowling alley and a stage, as well as other amenities, is city hall today.
60 years ago
Nov. 4, 1966
A practice fire removed the oldest government building in Glacier National Park. The Fish Creek Ranger station was burned to the ground. It was the first year-round superintendent’s office in Glacier, but the cabin had fallen into disrepair and was uninhabitable.
50 years ago
Nov. 4, 1976
The Columbia Falls football team posted its second straight 8-0 season under coach Harold Hughes. Mark Lingle and Chris Newman went over the 1,000-yard mark rushing for the Wildcats. They faced Glasgow in the semifinals of the Class a playoffs.
40 years ago
Nov. 5, 1986
Hungry Horse News printer Ron Miller showed off the newspaper’s 13-month calendar Miller printed in the paper’s commercial print shop. The newspaper’s calendar was a tradition for years. It was the first calendar offered by the paper and sold for $4.96. The first wolf was trapped and collared in Glacier National Park. It was a pup born earlier that same year.
30 years ago
Nov. 7, 1996
Work to renovate Sperry Chalet in Glacier was done for the season. They had put a new roof on and other amenities to the structure. But now there was a couple of feet of snow and crews had left. They’d wrap up the work the following year. Republicans swept county election races.
20 years ago
Nov. 2, 2006
Snow closed most of Glacier Park roads as an intense storm swept across the region and temperatures dropped into the 20s. The boiler from the steamer ship the Oakes was set to be removed from North Fork of the Flathead and put into a museum in Kalispell. The steamer sank in the river in 1892 and the boiler still remained.
10 years ago
Nov. 2, 2016
October was a very wet month as the Hungry Horse Dam saw more than a foot of rain. Developer Mick Ruis tore down the ailing Duvall Building in downtown Columbia Falls to make way for new apartments.