Early Montana Avenue View
Postcard published by J.J. Casey, Post Office News Store, Billings, Mont.
This summer, Montana Avenue was host to The Chair Affair.
I decorated and donated two chairs to the fundraiser.
You can view all the chairs at the above link.
October 20th, 2004 at 7:37 am
“The Chair Affair” what a fun and wonderful idea for a fundraiser!
October 20th, 2004 at 9:36 am
Lot’s of chairs!
I finally figured out that you are in Billings, and my family’s old homestead is about 30 miles outside of Billings.
Haven’t been out that way since 84 , but am planning on heading out there next summer.
Congrats on getting the harvest in.
October 20th, 2004 at 9:37 am
Lot’s of chairs!
I finally figured out that you are in Billings, and my family’s old homestead is about 30 miles outside of Billings.
Haven’t been out that way since 84 , but am planning on heading out there next summer.
Congrats on getting the harvest in.
October 20th, 2004 at 12:39 pm
We’re 50 something miles from Billings, and technically I’m a native New Yorker - but I’ve never cared for technicalities!
October 22nd, 2004 at 12:10 pm
I can remember when Montana Ave looked worse than Williamsburgh, Bed Sty, Brownsville, East New York…
Ghost Dog
October 22nd, 2004 at 3:59 pm
hmm - you have something against Kings County, GD? Brooklyn had trolleys, too. I’m not old enough to remember them, but I do remember some of the rail that hadn’t been taken up.
October 22nd, 2004 at 9:30 pm
No, I dont have any against Brooklyn. I’ll bet you have never heard of the “War Years” have you?
October 26th, 2004 at 3:59 pm
Which “war years”? But no, it was probably a little before my time, even though my baby pictures were tintypes.
October 27th, 2004 at 4:47 pm
The “War Years” began with the Assassinaton of Martin Luther King in 1968 ans ended wit the blackout in August 1978. It was the period of civil unrest when the ghettos in Brooklyn, the South Bronx and Harlem were burned.
The build up to the war years began after world war II when working class whites began migrating out of the South Bronx, Brownsville, East New York, Bed Sty to the suburbs.
It was the period of highest fire activity ever in the New Yrok City Fire Department.
There were also scams going with owners of tenements setting fires to collect insurance multiple times and tenants seting fires so welfare would place them in a better apartment. There were times when the Fire Department would roll up to a fire in 6 story tenement and the occupants of the apartment that was burning would be waiting o the sidewalk with all of their furniture and belongings ready to move…
Read the book Report From Engine Company 82 by Dennis Smith. Its still in print and a classic aqccount of the war years or otherwise known as the Blaze Days.
GD
April 5th, 2005 at 11:12 pm
Technically a native New Yawker, eh? Well, so am I–born there, whisked away to the West Coast by the time I was 6 mo old. Very much a technicality.