Distinctly Montana Magazine

Punchcard Tales Told... During the Depression, punchboard salesmen would come to towns and sell the boards to bar owners. A young Deer Lodge man, broke, (as who wasn't in the 30s?) told how one salesman would then give him the position of the winning holes. He would play the cards, win the big pots, give most of the money to the salesman and take a cut for his participation. • The chicanery wasn't all one-sided. A bartender in Drummond in the early 1970s was warned to keep a sharp eye on two particular patrons. Customers paid for the number of holes they punched out, and one rather buxom customer would drop the non-winning slips down the front of her blouse to hide the "evidence" and avoid paying. The other customer, lacking her impressive décolletage, would eat them. The Keys Hotel in Missoula couldn't survive on the room rate alone. The only thing that kept it going was punchboard gambling. The boards had long been illegal, but law enforcement throughout the state commonly ignored the activity. When the law finally clamped down, the hotel went under. I got this story from the hotel owner's granddaughter. • A young married man from Philipsburg stopped by the Brown Derby at Georgetown Lake on payday to pick up his dry cleaning. Like everyone in P-burg, he dropped it off there; it was taken to Anaconda and brought back cleaned. He decided to have one beer and give a puncboard a try. Four hundred dollars later — an entire week's wages — he returned home to his wife and four children with his pockets empty. Apparently both he and his suit had been taken to the cleaners. The prize wasn't always monetary. Some boards were played for merchandise, meals, cigarettes or candy. "There were these chocolate-covered cherries," reminisced one coffee shop informant. "Eeuck! They were awful!" Need a perfect publication? ANDERS LEWENDAL CONSTR UCTION, INC. 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