Missoula County

Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula gardens awash in color … and pollen
Missoula is known as the Garden City of Montana. How that came to be was explained in the Sunday edition of the Missoulian newspaper on May 30, 1909. “To its miles of residence streets is to be traced the origin of the title, which, after all, is the proudest that Missoula bears. Wide and clean are Missoula’s streets, a rule that holds good especially in its residence districts.”
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Root Electric Company at 127 East Cedar (now Broadway) was displaying the Grebe Synchophase radio receiver. The Dickinson Piano Company featured the Zenith Long Distance radio, capable of picking up broadcasts from “as far as 1,500 miles away.” Even the H. O. Bell auto dealership on South Higgins offered the Radiola, priced from “$35 to $425 with convenient terms, if desired.”
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
About one hundred years ago (Sunday, April 26, 1925 to be exact) Arthur L. Stone, the famed newspaper man and founding father of UM’s journalism school, penned a love letter to a pine tree. “High on the hip of Mount Jumbo stands ‘Sentinel Pine.’ Remote from its kind, this yellow pine overlooks the Hell Gate and the Missoula valley with a view unobstructed.”
Harmon’s Histories: Antique wallpaper found in Hammond Arcade dates to 1930s
Harmon’s Histories: Antique wallpaper found in Hammond Arcade dates to 1930s
Harmon’s Histories: Antique wallpaper found in Hammond Arcade dates to 1930s
Nick Caras has recently discovered “some old wallpapers in the Hammond Arcade, several of which are scenes of Chinese lanterns; and one of a traditional English ‘stag hunt.’ ” He wrote to the Missoula Current’s Martin Kidston, “I thought (I’d) ask if you had any hunch as far as date or perhaps you have some resources on the Chinese history in Missoula.” Martin passed the question to me, and I’m glad he did.

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