Monk's Cave stage 1968 - "The Aliens" from Seattle playing their last gig ever

Those in the know tell us that, in the early ’60s, the bar in the basement of the building on the SW corner of Ryman & Broadway was called The Candle.  At some point the place was purchased by Mike Monk, who changed the name to Monk’s Cave, which it was in 1968 when the above photo was taken.

The 1970s saw the heyday of music in downtown Missoula, for in 1971 the drinking age was lowered to 19 and on July 1, 1973 it was further lowered to 18.  Music venues were thus provided with thousands of newly-legal student patrons .  By 1973, Monk’s Cave had become The Cave, the hard rock bar in town.  Indeed, one could hear “Smoke on the Water” covered just about any evening.
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Montana raised the drinking age to 19 in 1979, and under pressure from the federal government, back to 21 in 1987.  The resulting massive reduction in University customers spelled the end of many nightclubs.  The Cave however died prematurely, owing some say to bikers invading the place, starting fights and causing havoc.  One former patron tells the story of one, then another, and another less-than-friendly biker sitting down without a word at a table shared by he and a friend.  He relates, “They obviously wanted the table, so we left.  That was the end of the place for me.”   Toward the last, a sign was posted at the front door, “No Colors Allowed.”  Evidently, the tactic didn’t work.  The bar was shuttered in 1978.

Except for Mike Monk’s short-lived attempt in ’81 or ’82 to revive Monk’s Cave, the space sat empty for years, it finally reopened around 1988 as Amvets Bar, catering to veterans in the daytime and a gay clientele at night.   Amvets closed in 2010 after being cited by the health department.  The bar re-opened in 2011 as Monk’s, a name harkening back to its 60’s incarnation.   Appropriately enough, the joint still looks basically the same as its namesake did in this photo from 1968 (allowing of course for changes in hair and clothing styles).