tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858576.post2901492016080758579..comments2024-03-28T16:25:38.547+01:00Comments on The Butler Pennsylvania Blog ~: Lowry House ~Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16789609881681811818noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858576.post-54407197370145376562017-03-15T08:47:35.430+01:002017-03-15T08:47:35.430+01:00When it was the bank, back in the 40s, I used it t...When it was the bank, back in the 40s, I used it to cure my fear of heights. <br /><br />One could go up to the roof via the stairs with no one saying a word. Once on the roof, over the course of several weeks,I would inch closer and closer to the edge bravely, look over until I was no longer fearful. Then I would walk down the stairs, walk into the<br />bank and deposit my 25 cents into my weekly (weakly?)Christmas<br />savings account. <br /><br />Imagine that-two birds with one stone! Let's see 25 times 52....<br />that was a bundle in those days.R. Wertznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14858576.post-62467503975657451152017-01-31T21:13:52.378+01:002017-01-31T21:13:52.378+01:00This was the first 3 story brick commercial buildi...This was the first 3 story brick commercial building in Butler. It was replaced in 1919 by the Guarantee Savings and Trust.<br /><br />It was in this hotel that Clara Barton stayed when she came to help during the great typhoid fever epidemic of 1903/1904.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com