Saturday Night "After Hours Crowd" at Sam's Club in Meaderville, Montana (1940)

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Title	Saturday Night "After Hours Crowd" at Sam's Club in Meaderville, Montana (1940)
Creator	Unknown Photographer; Louis Fontana
Subject	Butte (Mont.) - History; Meaderville (Mont.) - History
Description	Saturday Night "After Hours Crowd" at Sam's Club in Meaderville, Montana, Proprietor Sam Fior, Bartender Louis Fontana (1940). Fontana was 19 years old at the time this picture was taken. He "hopped tables" there and then after hours Sam Fior went to the poker table and Fontana worked behind the bar. Shortly after this time Fontana went to California to work briefly and was then drafted into the Navy. He met his wife Ann when he returned to Butte after the war. They met at a roller skating rink. "I fell at his feet and that was it" says Ann. (2009 interview with Louis and Ann Fontana in their Butte home.)
Date Original	1940
Type	image
Contributing Institution	Butte-Silver Bow Public Library
Contributors	Fontana, Louis
Coverage	1935 - 1945
Geographic Coverage	Butte (Mont.)); Meaderville (Mont.)
Date Digital	2009-12
Digitization Specifications	Digitized using a Plustek OpticBook 3600 Plus scanner at 600 PPI, 8 bit color. Web-viewable images created from master TIFF using Photoshop CS3 and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Digital Format	image/TIFF; image/jpg2000; application/pdf
Language	eng
Provenance	Privately owned image digitized with permission from owner Louis Fontana.
Publisher (Original)	Butte-Silver Bow Public Library
Resource Identifier	mze-fontlou0001a
Rights Management	All right reserved. Digitized by the library with permission of owner. If you are the photographer please contact the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library. Please see Montana Memory project Copyright statement and Conditions of Use at http://cdm15018.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/about.php.
Physical Collection	978.668 From Louis Fontana collection. Not owned by library.
Digital Collection	Butte Digital Image Project
OCLC number	557464509

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Saturday Night "After Hours Crowd" at Sam's Club in Meaderville, Montana (1940)

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