The Sunshine Bar

Located at 601 Woody Street, Jimmy Rose’s Sunshine Bar was the place to go if you were into hillbilly music in the early 1950s.  The place was so small and the demand so large that crowds would party outside in the street, turning their car radios up so they could better hear the music inside as it was broadcast live.  Rose, alas, lost the Sunshine in 1957 owing to legal troubles surrounding the establishment, and so ended the hillbilly heyday.  The Sunshine Bar continued more sedately under new ownership at the same location through 1969, by which time most of the north end of Woody had become vacant and derelict.

West side Woody St 1968

Looking south on Woody toward the NW corner of Woody and Alder. The Sunshine is the white building just visible at the far end of the block.

 

 

 

 

 
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The building is occupied today by Fran’s Second Hand.  During the ’70s and ’80s, it housed A&J Meats.

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4 thoughts on “The Sunshine Bar

  1. The Missoulian August 23, 2008 12:00 am • By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian

    On a Saturday summer night in 1953 Missoula, there was only one place to be, whether you were wearing a poodle skirt and bobby socks, loggers’ overalls or a fraternity sweater.

    You could stink like a railcar bum or stink of Pomade hair grease. Didn’t matter, because eventually you’d stink of booze and cigarettes, the odors that bound Missoulians at the hot, hot, hot corner of Woody and Alder streets.

    Inside Jimmy Rose’s Sunshine Bar, assuming you could push your way in, you’d stand toe to toe, shoulder to shoulder, with everyone who was anyone in the Garden City. Society ladies. Well-heeled men in suit jackets. College kids. People who worked the land, people who rode the trains, people who shared little in common save one thing: their love of the country-fried hillbilly music radiating from the stage….Continue reading The Missoulian

    • I used to live right across the river from Weiser in a lil town called Annex, OR. there was a school, grades 1-8, & a lil gas station/convenience store. this was in Sept. & Oct. of 1990, Weiser was about 4 blocks long on the main street!

  2. Fiddler Jimmy WIdner teamed up with Vern Wilburn and began playing at bars for $3 a night. The pair met an itinerant singer who went by the name of Wild Bill Lloyd, the Snake River Outlaws.

    The three sang together until they found Lloyd dead in the car that he lived in by the railroad depot.

    About that time, there was a young kid named Orval Fochtman hanging around the bar and singing to tunes on the jukebox. They enlisted him and Wilburn’s brother to become the Snake River Outlaws….They ended up in Missoula and the Sunshine Bar….Read more at The Ravalli Republic

  3. Bob Lazich ’57 spun cowboy tunes as the voice of Buffalo Bob on afternoon radio while at UM. “Imagine the wake-up call I got this morning [October 19, 2008] as I’m lying in bed listening to ‘Weekend Edition’ on National Public Radio,” he wrote. “They were doing a segment on an old cowboy band very popular in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, the Snake River Outlaws. I am the announcer on those fifty-five-year-old radio tapes! I was a student at UM working my way through college as an announcer on the Z-Bar Network, a chain of five stations in Montana. I announced the Saturday night live broadcasts for KXLL radio from the Sunshine Bar on the corner of Woody and Alder….Continue reading The Montanan

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