BUTTE — People in Butte have been bellying up to the iconic lunch counter at Matt’s Diner for 90 years.

Unfortunately, it’s been closed for the past six years, but a young couple has decided to bring this burger joint and its tradition back to life.

"We just know that once this American burger counter ... if a place like this goes away, it doesn’t come back. And we really wanted to keep that history alive,” Daniel Lee said.

Daniel Lee and Lyndee Elmer are reopening Matt’s Place Drive-In, which had been operating on Placer Street since 1930.

The Washington couple initially stopped in Butte last year to get a bite to eat at the historic diner.

The beloved Matt's Place Drive-In returns to Butte! Couple reopening Butte's historic Matt's Place diner

“It was closed and boarded up when w

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