Boulder Cash reopens as…Boulder Cash

The Boulder Cash 56 is in new hands, and its doors are now open.

The 131-year-old building housing Boulder Cash has quite the backstory: First built in 1891, the Main Street storefront has served past lives as a butchery, mercantile and grocery store. It was purchased by the Streib family in 1957 from Frank  J. “Butch” Hrella. Jim and Jackie Streib sold the building, still a grocery at the time, in the year 2000 to their son Steven, who then converted it into the familiar liquor store. Steven Streib passed away in 2021, and the property was passed to his son, Robert Streib.

After 66 years in the Streib family, the building was purchased by Boulder Mayor Rusty Giulio in June. Valerie Hartman, Giulio’s girlfriend, purchased the Boulder Cash business from Streib, and since then has been working to obtain the related liquor license through the Montana Department of Revenue.