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.
Butte Digital Image Project
