Random City, USA

Most of us despise where we live, if your looking for a new city to move to, this page is for you.  Each week a new city will be selected at random as our Random City of the week, we will give you the upsides and downsides to living in Random City, USA.

 

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This Weeks Random City . . .

 

 

 

Population (2000) – 33,892

 

Butte, Montana is pronounced B-Yoot, not Butt.  It is a small mining town located in the middle of nowhere, Montana.  In it’s heyday, apparently it was the hopping place to live.  In the 1800’s the city had quite a bit of gold, silver and copper, which is why it is now nicknamed “The Richest Hill on Earth.”  With the country going hog-wild for mining precious metals, miners from all over came to Butte, including; Ireland, England Wales, Canada, Finland, Austria, Serbia, Italy, China, Syria, Croatia, Montenegro, Mexico, The Emerald City, Quahog, Kazakhstan, Atlantis, Neverland, The Starship Enterprise, and all areas of the USA.

 

Due to this surge of migrant workers, all sorts of fun things began to pop up in Butte, such as brothels.  Many elegant, legal houses of prostitution were erected on Mercury Street including the Dumas Brothel, the longest running, legal house of prostitution in US History, and Venus Alley which allowed women to sell their “goods” in small wooden cubicles known as “Cribs.”  Eat that MTV.

 

Sadly, in the 1920’s Butte had a change of heart and stopped selling sex for money, the infamous Dumas Brothel was shut down, it is now a museum dedicated to educating visitors on the history of Butte.  Open to the pubic daily from 9-5 are the “I’m trapped in the mine, Claustrophobia Exhibit,” the “Joseph G. Phlegm, Hall of Black Lung,” “Life in a Whore-able time: A history of Selling Sex for Money,” and it houses an actual penis last used at the brothel in 1896.  It was during the 19^th century that Butte became known for its Cornish pasty’s, which contrary to your dirty mind is actually a meat pie, not a nipple sticker.

 

One of the three most notable miners of the time was a man named F. Augustus Heinze who is not at all famous, but to be fair he loaned some money to his cousin Henry John who blah blah blah, yada yada yada, isn’t Ketchup great.  Another hot spot in Butte is the Berkeley Pit which was the largest truck-operated open pit copper mine in the US, now its filled with acidic water laced with toxic heavy metals, it is the most popular tourist site in Butte.  Every Thursday there is an open swim beginning at 10am and each year in the heart of winter, on the second Sunday in January, the townspeople gather to swim the length of the mine in what is called the “Mutated Polar Bear Relay.”

 

Today Butte is known for being the hometown of soon-to-be-dead daredevil Evel Knievel, Olympic Cyclist Levi Leipheimer, who will in fact never be Lance Armstrong, and Fantasy Author Patricia Briggs who is best known for nothing.  Also from Butte but dening it are Mortal Kombat villian Goro and Sloth from Goonies.

 

In closing, Butte is a fantastic place to live and raise a family.  For more information on Butte visit their homepage.

 

*** Some of the above information may not be factualy acturate, we apologize for any misconceptions we may have brought to the city of Butte, it really is apperently a beautiful city, we don’t know though we’ve never been there. ***