Although the rest of the state had closing hours, Butte bars stayed open. One such row of cribs is an electrical shop on Mercury Street across from the old Dumas once a famous brothel and now an antiques shop. Butte brought keno to the U.S. adapting it from a Chinese gambling game. Butte also ended the anti-liquor crusading career of Carry Nation. Nation showed up with her ax in 1910 but she ran into May Maloy a barkeep and madam who beat her so badly that Carry fled town and retired for good.
Today there are still many ethnic groups.
There are about 150 Serbian families that celebrate eastern orthodox church in the language of the old country. Mexicans celebrate the Festival of Guadalupe in Spanish. The Jewish community is still large enough to maintain the elegantly restored 1903 vintage synagogue and to fly a rabbi up from L.A. once a month for sabbath services in Hebrew. There are still Austrians, Italians, Finnish, and Scandinavians. One of the worst environmental diasters is here in Butte too.