A fading Uptown ...

Speaking of Butte and its bars, here's a nocturnal shot of uptown Butte I took back in 2007. The building on the left is the M&M Bar, arguably the Mining City's most famous watering hole. For decades the M&M was open 24 hours a day -- a bar along one side of the long, narrow storefront, a greasy lunch counter along the other, and a card room in the back that traditionally offered (according to one source) at least as much gambling as the law allowed.

The M&M has fallen on hard times, though, and today the business is closed, awaiting a bankruptcy sale. Like the rest of uptown Butte, the city's fabled bars are fading away ...