RECREATION & FUNCross Country Skiing and Sledding...a local’s guide p. 8A Downtown To Do list p. 3 - 5Fashion--Then & Now 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. 7

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 enough you might see the Northern Lights; this is a 1949 news article, notice the reporter waxes poetic on the pink snow. Read more online: the Stories tab on glaciergazette.com.

SKIING...In all started backin the 1930s when a group of local skiers

built a cabin...

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 that marking what would become Whitefish Mountain Resort. This area is immortalized in the Hellroaring Basin. A year later the club cleared the Hell Roaring slope for ski runs and in 1939 the first high school race, complete with 400 spectators and 86 participants, occurred on the slope. The Satan’s Mountaineer-ing Club was born, much to the chagrin of local pastors. To grow to a true mountain ‘resort’ would take the support of a town and the dedication of several skiing kingpins. These skiing forefathers had the dream before ski resorts were even a twinkle in the eye of most Americans.READ MORE online...www.glaciergazette.com. Click on the ski image above on the homepage.

EARLY CON-TROVERSY SURROUNDING THE RESORT’S NAME...LINK TO ONLINE

AD FOR DANCING AT OASIS DURING 1949 SKI NATIONALS AT BIG MTN.

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VILLAGE SHOP FASHION STORY full media campaign. Fashion images.

Sappari

Stockings, corsets and other underthings1930s FASHIONPantaloons

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The White Room & Their Wooden Skis

LOCAL GEMS p. 5Sapphires, Montana Mines

A Woman and her Gems The Madams that were always thick with jewels.

Wanted the raw stones, that held value if you needed to get our og town quick.

Brooches, Clasps & Accessories through the eras

Go DownTown for some Local Flavor!

Like the Stumptown Historical Society on Facebook and take their architectural tourFOCUS BUILDING

Shopping GuideLINK TO WHITEFISH VISITOR’S GUIDESnow Bus schedule, online link

Chill

No one beside the local taxider-mist had more hunting tropies (8 on the back wall alone) than Boarding House owner, Ma Raimey, pictured on left. Boarding houses were common in Western railroad towns like Whitefish. Board included meals, but baths were a sepa-rate affair. Bathhouses adver-tised a nickel a soak on up. Ma Raimey occupied the building that now is home to Wasabi restaurant & Chill Clothing. CHECK WITH JILL EVANS

OLD BOWLING ALLEYS &

MEMORIES DOWNTOWN

The White Room

Antiques

Markus Foods

57 Boutique

COOL STUFF 6

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

Crystal Winters Gift Shop

232 Central Ave ∙ DOWNTOWN WHITEFISH ∙ 862-6104200 MONTANA T-SHIRT DESIGNS

CARDS (tasteful & not) JEWELRY SOUVENIRS

WEIRD STUFF & MOREA way cool place to shop!!!

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AnASTONISHING

Array of fun &

unusual items

Celery Stalks at MidnightFlossy Fletcher LINK TO STORY ONLINE

Gather ‘Round the Piano or Radio

SONG SHEET IMAGES

MEET SHIRLEY YEATS GARDENER, GRANDMOTHER AND HATER OF the WOOL STOCKINGS she had to wear as a GIRL.

PEOPLE/OLD TIMERS 7

Whitefish Lake Restaurant

A Flathead Dining Tradition since 1936

In the Clubhouse of the Whitefish Lake Golf Course 1 mile West of Downtown Whitefish • Hwy. 93 North • 862-5285

Fireside DiningPrime Rib

Hand Cut Steaks Fresh Seafood

TOGGERY

SPORTSMAN & SKI HAUS: $200 black and white, $250 color

Print ad promotes: Our Salespeople Have The Inside Scoop For All Of Your Skiing,

Ice Fishing, Snowshoeing And Even Sledding Needs...Online bios and listing: $100Online version adds: link to website, Facebook shared content, ad on site, Google analytics. $50Bio/pix of salespeople, plus bio/Facebook/blog for Whitefish

store.

Criss Cross Whitefish On A Pair Of Cross-Country Skis

Insiders GuideSLEDDING....Veteran’s sledding park by rail-road and golf courseKiddie ParkThe infamous Little MountainMuldown Elementary SchoolSportsman & Ski Haus has lots of great sledsSleds 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. Further north of Whitefish, the Stillwater Nordic Center is set back

in the trees and evergreen scent of the Stillwater State Forest. Their 20 km of terrain challenges all levels of skiers and overnight cabins that make for family fun. 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.