Still Going DownhillLegends of Showdown · The George Willett years, 1973–2020
Tony and Sherry Juntunen
Bob's Bar in Neihart, 1982 to 2018 — where the mountain came down to at the end of the day
Legend of Showdown
- Born
- Tony in Minnesota; Sherry in Wisconsin
- First skied at Showdown
- Sherry in high school, in the mid-1960s
- First worked here
- 1982, when they took over Bob's Bar in Neihart
- Years at Showdown
- 1982–2018, thirty-six years at Bob's Bar
- Positions
- Proprietors of Bob's Bar, Neihart, 1982 to December 2018
- Built the motel, the kitchen addition and a new bar
- Sherry cooked and kept the rooms
What they did
17 entries
- Tony's family came to Neihart from Minnesota, where his father Edward worked as a logging sawyer
- June 1957Tony secretary-treasurer of the new Kings Hill 4-H Club, organised at the Neihart School with members from Monarch and Neihart
- Fall 1958Sherry Young started the fourth grade in White Sulphur Springs
- May 1959Tony graduated from Neihart High School as valedictorian
- December 1967Married, the December after Sherry graduated from White Sulphur Springs High School
- Tony promoted within the Anaconda Company, from Great Falls to Anaconda, then Butte and Denver
- July 1982Took over Bob's Bar in Neihart from Charles Dennis Urton, after Tillie Giles, tending bar, told Tony he ought to buy it
- November 1983Tony elected a Neihart town commissioner, with Idaho Trenberth as mayor
- Spring 1983A beach party with a volleyball net on the empty lots beside the old bar
- 10 April 1983The Belt Creek Headwaters Relay started at Bob's Bar, where racers could register
- Spring 1984Bob's Bar a sponsor of the Showdown Youth Ski Racing Team's '1st Corporate Cup', as the event was billed
- Opened the motel, five units for the 1990-91 season and fifteen rooms by 1992
- The We Ski Cousins started out playing in a corner of Bob's Bar after skiing at Showdown
- 10 August 1996A grand opening at Bob's Bar, with prizes every hour and music by the We Ski Cousins
- March 2006The Tribune called Bob's Bar 'the unofficial snowmobilers' clubhouse'
- December 2018Retired after thirty-six years and sold Bob's to Janice Smith-Bagheri
- 16 September 2026Interviewed at home in Neihart, and lent their Bob's Bar photographs to the archive
In their own words
Photographs
2 in the archive
Also
- Tony's father, Edward Juntunen, was a sawyer who cut timber on the mountain with Clyde Giles