people came from all over the world to make their fortunes here or simply for steady work, a better life. cornish, welsh, a lot of eastern europeans... - croatians, serbs... very ethnically diverse. - by montana standards or by any standard? - i would say by any standards, that it's kind of a micro-version of new york city. bourdain: meaderville was an italian neighborhood and developed a tradition of supper clubs. lydia's was opened in 1946 by lydia mitchell eddy in the 4 mile, the valley below butte. so what is a supper club? i've heard about this tradition, but i don't really understand what distinguishes a supper club from a restaurant. - at least in montana, the supper clubs are a variation on meaderville style. it involves this antipasto beginning... bourdain: sliced beets, sweet-potato salad, salami and cheese, side salad, pickled peppers, and breadsticks. - then when you actually get your entrée, you get, oddly enough, ravioli or spaghetti or, here, both. but also french fries. - odd. - that may be unique to montana.