bourdain: for entrées, seared scallops in white wine sauce for aaron. me--noticing we're pretty much landlocked around here-- i go for the extra-thick tenderloin of beef, thank you very much. this is wacky. it makes no sense. - it is somewhat bizarre to have scallops and french fries. - yeah. meaderville no longer around? - no, it's not. it was swallowed up by the pit in the early '60s. bourdain: for the first 70 years, it was hard-rock mining-- blasting and digging tunnels deep into the ground. by the 1950s, mining was moving increasingly to above ground-- open pit-- which meant fewer jobs and a bigger, more visible footprint. by 1955, the berkeley pit had become the largest open-pit copper mine in the world. as it expanded, it devoured meaderville and surrounding neighborhoods. there was money down there to be dug out of the ground, and that's what butte had always been about from the beginning. in 1983, the pumps that held back the groundwater from thousands of miles of tunnels beneath the city