RECREATION & FUNCross Country Skiing and Sledding...a Local’s Guide p. 8

A Downtown To Do List p. 3 - 5Fashion--Then & Now plus cool local places to shop p. 3

SKIINGHistory & Fun Tidbits p. 2

Montana gems... p. 4

OLD TIMER WISDOM & WIT...Meet Mrs. Yeats, reluctant wool stocking wearer & gardener extraordinaire p. 5 & 6

Get your MAP of DownTown at www.visitWhitefish.com

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHITEFISHDowntown walking tour is online on the

Stumptown Historical Society Facebook page

www.glaciergazette.comOn Facebook: Stumptown Old Timer

& Glacier Park History and Lore

Whitefish local lore, insider’s fun & other cool stuffTHE Stumptown OLD TIMER

If you stay up late you might see the North-ern Lights. On the left, this 1949 Whitefish

Pilot article, waxes poetic on the pink snow. Read more about northern lights in Montana, online

“A Quantum Love Story, the Aurora’s in MT”

As early as 1935, a little ski club known as the Hell-Roaring Ski Club, set up shop in the Hell Roaring Creek area with a small, ski-in cabin marking what would become Whitefish Mountain Resort. This area is immortal-ized in the Hellroaring Basin (and the bar)on your resort map. Much to the chagrin of local pastors, the Satan’s Mountain-eering Club found runs and explored the mountains. READ MORE online...www.glaciergazette.com. Download the pdf of the Old Timer for your mobile from the homepage. The Stumptown Old Timer Facebook page also has a link to the pdf on the About Us tab.

EARLY CONTROVERSY

SURROUNDING what to name the Resort...‘What’s in a Name?’

online

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THE WHITE ROOM HISTORIC SKIS

Stockings, corsets and other underth-ings1930s FASHIONPantaloons

Flapper’s & How Fashion Forged the Early Feminist MovementLINK societypages.com

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MEET SHIRLEY YEATS

GARDENER, GRAND-

MOTHER AND HATER

OF the WOOL STOCK-

INGS she had to wear as a

GIRL.

Two Silver Screens & a Popcorn Truck Memories of the Movies

In the 20s & 30s, Whitefish had a its silver screen heyday, with two movie theaters. The biggest and longest lasting Or-pheum Theater was on the cor-ner of Central & Second. Every old timer in town has a favorite movie & memory of this spot. The Village Shop now occu-pies the old Orpheum Theater and preserved this history, with old movie cameras on dis-play in their main entrance.

MABEL FISHER...The 1926 Typing Champion and the tweed coat from the 20’s that she can’t forget STORY

Tucked away on the south corner of the downtown Whitefish Central Avenue strip, there’s a wonderful little jewelry store with a specialty: Montana sapphires. If you’ve never heard of Montana sap-phires, stop in to take a peek. These gemstones will dazzle you with their spectrum of natural colors; and the staff at Isley’s will dazzle you with their knowledge of gems. Montana is a mecca for sapphire production—producing one-third of the world’s sapphires, including the one, the only, the exquisite: Yogo sapphire. Cindy Just and Stephen Isley share their love of this unique gem in this story on the mining in Montana, history, the geology and their experience collecting the wonderful and local, Montana sapphire. Access the full version of the story in the online edition, on the homepage glaciergazette.com.

LOCAL GEMS: Montana Sapphires The World’s Most Colorful Precious Stone

History Bit: Early Madams & Their Gems

Back at the turn of the century, when Whitefish had a real red light district, the madams in town were fond of jewels, especially raw stones. There were at least three madams who excelled at their trade in early Whitefish: Julia, Maymie and Dot-ty, circa 1904 - 1911 and according to old Police Ledgers. There was also a male madam, Jack Matthews. When madams inquired at the jeweler, they called first or requested proprietors visit them at their place of business. Raw gemstones were their preference, perhaps because they held value if you left town in a hurry, said to legendary local writer Dorothy Johnson. She penned classic westerns like ‘Who Shot Liberty Va-lance’, ‘The Hanging Tree’ and other classic Western tales under the nom d’ plume: D.M. Johnson.

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Like the Stumptown Historical Society on Facebook and take their architectural tour

Shopping GuideLINK TO WHITEFISH WHITEFISH WINTER CARNI-

VALPENGUINS

OLD BATH HOUSE

SOAK FOR A NICKEL AD

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TRY PESCADO BLANCO’S ELK TACO “MONTANA’S BEST TACO”

in the Railway District

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Boarding Houses & the WestStumptown Historical Society’s Cool PlaquesSee the Indefatigable Ma & Pa Green

SNOW BUS SCHEDULE

Go DownTown for some

Local Flavor!

COOL STUFF 6

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHITEFISH AND ASSORTED NEWS CLIPS FROM WALTER SAYRE...BACHELOR TAXRED LIGHT DISTRICT

Local Lore: For real relics of our little town through the years, check out

the signs on the walls of the Great Northern Bar & Grill. The north side of the bar was one of two

taxidermy shops once located downtown.

Cadillac Hotel historyInspired the classic western tale

Museum Pieces Depot Museum HOURSGET

Ski Museum

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WINTER CARNIVAL

Listen to Celery Stalks at Midnight music on FACE-BOOK Flossy Fletcher LINK TO STORY ONLINE

Gather ‘Round the Piano or RadioThose were the days...pictures of old radios

and Flossy Fletcher’s memories

SONG SHEET IMAGES

OLD TIMER WIT & WISDON 7

BOOKWORKSWhitefish’s Original

& Independent BOOK STORE

862-4980

244 SPOKANE DOWNTOWN WHITEFISH

Mrs. Shirley Yeats

Get the best read recommends from their staff ON FACEBOOK

Criss Cross Whitefish On A Pair Of Cross-Country Skis

Insiders Guide toSLEDDING....once known as TobaggoningGreat Northern Veterans Park &Sledding Hill

Kiddie Park

Muldown Elementary SchoolSleds Through The Decades...ONLINE

Power of the

Pen

Whitefish is a mini-mecca of cross country ski spots. The Glacier Nordic Center is located at the Whitefish Golf Course. This little section is nearby town

and offers 12 km of groomed trails for

cross-country and skate-skiers. Kids are welcome. For a more backcountry experience, Round Meadows offers intermittently groomed trails and beautiful backcountry. The interconnecting loops are hours of adventure, but this area has no services. With acres of National Forest Service land, the Flathead Valley has endless op-portunities GO ONLINE FOR MORE INFO.

GLACIER NORDIC AD