Sundance landmark to be razed

Steve and Jinx Hilty moved to Sundance, Wyoming after growing up in Cleveland and they opened their restaurant in 1987 when I was working for Twin City Fruit in Deadwood. 

Their daughter Callie told an interested party on Faceberg Messenger Thursday morning that after closing in August, 2020 they sold the building that housed Higbee's Café just months ago and retired. Steve had run the kitchen and Jinx ran the dining room and wrote the checks. Callie and her brother Alec worked there, too. 

The building was a turn of the century mercantile then an auto parts store before it was Higbees’ dining room. The Hiltys lived in that attached two story on the left in the photo until the kids were older. 

The late Herb Haist was the General Commissioner for the City of Sundance in the mid-1980s before being hired as the Deadwood City Planner and he introduced me to the family.

The Sundance Times is reporting the buildings will be demolished after serving the community, tourists and the Sturgis Rally for over a hundred years.