MIKE SMITH Montana Standard editor David McCumber reflects upon Butte's M&M Cigar Store, which burned on May 7, 2021. Thereâs nothing left but piles of bricks and charred rubble where the M&M Cigar Store served as an anchor icon to Uptown Butte for 130 years. Nothing but its historic neon sign survived a fire that gutted the building on Friday, leaving nothing but saw-toothed sections of bricks on the east and west sides. For safety reasons, the entire east wall and façade were brought down with a backhoe. The long, wooden bar on one side, the long lunch counter on the other, the tin roof and the swinging steel doors, the gambling room in the back â things that made the place the M&M for decades â are all gone.