Interesting reading all of the past history of Miles City..Here's some more. The snowball fight when the Police Cruiser got stuck. Officer john Uden..who still lives here was the one who tried to sneak up on the CCHS students throwing snowball fights over the underpass. Also when I was working at KATL and I am still there...we had a program every Saturday Morning called "You and your State School" recorded by the Superintendant...I belive his name was Don Holiday. He used the radio station as a podium to talk to all the kids in the State School and it was a requirement that all of them had to listen. in Sports...Glendive was the arch rival of the cowboys and one friday night prior to the home game with Glendive...CCHS had a car bashing contest where you could swing a sledge hammer at an old car painted up to represent the Glendive Red Devils. Also prior to every home football or basketball game..KATL would play band music fifteen minutes before the broadcast...and most high school kids listened to KOMA..1520 Oklahoma City..which can still be picked up at night here and still plays the music from the late 60's
Still TV at the Radio

How about these:

You remember when the radio station call letters were changed to KATL, and what they were before.

Your life-long love of opera started because the station broadcast the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoons.

Ken Z

Looking at today's update on the Daily Star website leads to this one:

You know you're from Miles City when your relatives have memorial plaques at the Range Riders Museum.

My grandparents are there, and in the new list is my uncle, Leighton Nunn.

Ken Z

>>my uncle, Leighton Nunn

Seeing the name "Nunn" reminded me of the house that used to be in the 200 block of S. Custer Ave. across from Lincoln School and my recollection is the name of the people who lived in it was Nunn. When I attended Lincoln School the playground was just starting to expand across Custer onto the western half of the block that is bounded by Custer on the west, Jordan on the east, Fort on the north, and Pearl on the south. The Nunn house wound up being surrounded by playground.

Ken, I went and looked at one of your other posts where you mentioned living on Custer Ave. Your parents must be Ann and the late Harold Ziebarth? Is that right? And your mom's maiden name was Nunn and her parents lived in this house on the 200 block of S. Custer? You mentioned that house was eventually moved from Custer out to the Yellowstone Valley. I think that might have happened when I was attending Lincoln School but I'm not sure exactly what year it was.

There was another house just north of the Nunn house and my recollection of that house is that it was abandoned and dilapidated and eventually it was torn down. That happened sometime before the Nunn house was moved.

So, Ken, your dad built the apt. building on the corner of Fort and Custer? I have two memories about that apt. building. One is going trick-or-treating there when I was a kid. It was indoors -- out of the cold -- so that was nice but as I recall we didn't have the best of luck getting treats from the residents. Another memory is one time the city was doing utility work on Fort St. in front of the building and they had the street dug up. Us kids were playing in the dirt pile and someone got the idea to make mud balls and throw them at the side of the apt. building. Well, it didn't take long before Jim Bertrand came out and gave us a well-deserved butt-chewing for throwing mud balls at his building. Darn kids.

- Dave


[This message has been edited by David Schott (edited 6/6/2003).]

Yes, David, you have me identified exactly. And all of your memories about the Custer houses are correct. My Grandmother lived at #212. Leighton was my mother's older brother. And I think that Jim Bertrand was a later owner of the apartment house next to our 'new' house. We lived at 2021 Stower when we first moved to Miles City in about 1950. Then with my grandmother in the early '50s, then in the apartment house at #120 until our house next door at #112 was built about 1957, and I graduated from CCHS in 1960, my brother Tim in 1964. My whole 'wasted youth' summarized in one paragraph!
Ken Z

Hey Ken,

My mom, Ruth Schott, is friends with your mom. My folks still live in the 200 block of S. Jordan which is the house I grew up in. When I was a kid, I remember Mom walking over to your parents' house to attend social events -- possibly P.E.O. meetings. I would hang out on the Lincoln School playground and wait for Mom to leave your house and I would meet her and walk her home. This was all much after the time that you graduated from high school -- probably the late 70's.

My wife was in Miles City in April and she went to the Glen Miller Orchestra concert with my folks. Afterwards they went out for pie and coffee with your mom and her husband and a few other couples. So, my wife was telling me all about getting to meet your mom.

It's a small town!

- Dave

KRJF! Of course I know that! I do the Stardust and KRJF is alive and well in 1953. There were three tv sets in Miles City in 1953 and guess who had one? When his big ol' antenna pulled anything in, Dave Rivenes would go and shout at the neighbors "TELEVISION" and everyone would come in to watch, not caring what the show was, just that it was TELEVISION.

Ah, the Red Rock and that long ramp than came down from the Bunkhouse and banquet rooms in the days before ADA requirments. I ran up and down it a few times. I remember high school banquets of various sorts, all at either the Red Rock or the Crossroads.

And my mom calls Dave Schott's mom "Ruthie" so I guess they go back a few years. Bofore she became Mrs. Schott, in fact.

Amorette

David - if your mom's name is Ruth, you must be my little brothers early childhood friend? Allan Scanlan. He now lives in California, and works at Micheal Jackson's "Neverland Ranch".
salli (scanlan)

Hi Salli,

I suspect your brother was friends with my older brother, Chuck. Chuck graduated from CCDHS in '72. I graduated in '85. There's quite an age spread between us.

I think I met your brother once probably in the early 80's, though I'm not sure exactly when it was. Did he used to travel with a carnival? And now he works at "The Neverland Ranch"? That sounds like quite the job!

- Dave

David - Yea, it was Chuck (something was familiar) I think he and my folks moved to Phx. in the mid 60's - Yes he was a "carni" (cinderella story) Worked his way up to be a Safty Inspector and travelled the world first class - Europe, Middle East, South Pacific etc.. He is now in charge of maintenance and safety at the ranch. As he says "another day in Paradise" he's a happy camper(and a super guy if I do say so)

salli (scanlan)

Hey Salli,

Yes, your brother was in Miles City, I think it was sometime in the early 80's, and he stopped by to visit my folks and that's when I met him. He was driving a pickup with large camper on top. It's been a long time but I recall that his job with the carnival took him to some pretty amazing places -- international locales. It sounded like he really enjoyed it.

- Dave

Hi David,
When I first started visiting MC.com, your name and some of the details you were giving, looked familiar, but I couldn't place you.. It's because you were born, about the time we left, but I used to play with your brother, Chuck.
We went to Grade School together.
Would you tell him I said hi, when you talk to him?
I grew up, in the house at 206 S. Custer, and Chuck was part of the good memories I have of MC.
Great big smiles,
Kelly

Hey Kelly,

Wow, 206 S. Custer? That must be the house that used to be next door to Ken's grandmother's house which I described as "abandoned and dilapidated". I hope you guys moved out *before* it became that way!

Next time I talk to Chuck I'll try to remember to mention that you said hi.

- Dave

Kelly.
So your father was Lyle Babcock, the Junior High band director? and Barbara your sister? I went to school with her but don't clearly recall that she had siblings.
I remember the house at 206 as the 'Schell' house, because that family lived there for a long time, but then I do remember that Babcocks lived there later.
Ken Z

Hi Dave and Ken,
You guys got it right, and it explains what it took so long for me to figure out. Most of the MC.comite are, either older, or younger than I am.
Ken; Barb had three younger siblings, myself, being the only male. I do remember you. Barb and her husband were both killed in a car accident about 6 years ago.
And Dave,
I do think of Chuck quite frequently, and wonder how he's doing. If you would tell him hey, I would appreciate it.
I did hear that they let the house on Custer fall into disrepair, sometime, after we left.
But no matter what, it's all good memories,
Kelly

You know you're from Miles City when...

Your out-of-town guests complain about the mosquitos and you say, "What mosquitos?"

Your ordinary beer is Busch Light, while your special occasion beer (weddings, birthdays, BHS) is Bud Light.

As a teenager, your idea of a perfect date was 20 laps up and down Main Street.

When a building burns down, you know instinctively it wasn't faulty wiring or furnace mishap, it was arson.

When all your favorite music is still the same things you listened to in college, because you have't heard a decent thing on the radio since you moved back to town.

You treat all strangers with kindness and friendliness, except those that are from Glendive (damn red devil!)

Sorry, the subject line was such that I couldn't resist.

All this is making me really feel out and old. My last memories of good ol' MC wer around the end of the 70's, about the time Haynes Avenue STARTED developing, things and places and people you are all mentioning either don't ring a bell or are no longer there.
But I have the sensation that the general atmosphere of living 'out of this world' and '2o years or so behind the rest of civilization' still hangs in there.
I remember taking deer pelts to Pacific Hide and Fur,
riding our bikes 'down the hill' and miraculously having no accidents crossing the bridge over the Yellowstone River,

'goin' down to the river' to build our secret clubhouses with the branches of fallen trees,
Dad excavating the 'new pool' which was supposed to be a boat lake and swimming pool (but I don't remember it's name), and later not understanding why someone would want to just sit by it and take in the sun instead of swimming...

Ol' Charlie's 'lots of used stuff' with all sorts of museum trapping out near the Red Rock (which seems is no more...), and the bullet-holed sign welcoming y'all to Miles City, friendliest town in the West,

etc.

You know you're from Miles City when nodding and saying "hi" to passing strangers is second nature - even after being gone for over 20 years!

Reading all these notes and remembering the Penguin, the Hang Out (glad to hear I'm not yet old enough to enter the one place my brother thought was his sanctuary from his kid sister!), the Bean Bag store, the snow ball fight, skinny dipping on Saturday nights at Spotted Eagle (oops, did nobody mention that?) brings a sense of melancholy and belonging. Thanks guys.

Heather McC (Frederick)

so right! a smile and a friendly nod still follow me along the road, altho' I sometimes have to work hard to control the impulse, 'cause in some European towns, it's a 'friendly comeon' offer, 'cause no one smiles or greets without a second meaning....

Oh my gosh, talk about a small world. One of the gals I work with (in Sultan WA - we're both mangers at a McD's) is related to "all the Andersons" in MC!! Her grandfather used to own the cafe next to the Bison Bar. Her mom always conseidered the door between them to be "her door" and access to the pop and chips!!! Talk about a blast from the past - that cafe used to be one of our favorite places to go - well that and the 600 Cafe where me and the girl friends could sit for hours drinking coffee and gossiping....
Heather (Frederick)
PS: say, does anyone remember the Parker brothers? I remember when the younger one streaked through the gym during an assembly......never thought I'd ever forget his name..........

Damn, got to thinking and I believe that Parker may have been his first name! Had an older brother Sam...................

Oh dear, think my "some-timers" is turning into "alls-timers"!

Anyway, going to be in Libby in a couple of weeks. My ex's family reunion is going on........yes, I was invited LOL! As was my husband and our kids. Of course the ex and I share a son too but I'd be invited anyway - true MT style. Once your family you're always family!

Heather