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The Bigfork Summer Playhouse has grown over the years, adding buildings for set design and construction, along with company housing. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)
August 22, 2019
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August 22, 2019 10:20 p.m.
Bigfork playhouse celebrates 60 years of curtain calls
In 1960, Bigfork was a far cry from the affluent artistic hamlet that it is today. There were a handful of restaurants and mom and pop shops that largely catered to the population of fishermen who frequented the area. In the winter months, the meager population depleted even further so that, as one resident said, you could roll a bowling ball down Electric Avenue and not hit a single car.