Christmas 2024

 

Photo: Grupps Farm 

Looking Down Walnut Street ~

 Thanks: Brian Loch

Armco ~ Butler Steelmaker

Butler Armco forging steel for the war effort  in the 1940s.

Jewish Cemetery ~ B'nai Abraham

On Portman Road, east of Butler.

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BHS Football ~ 2024

  

08/23 BHS 14 [L ] - Shaler - 20

08/30 BHS 42 [W] - Brashear - 0

09/06 BHS 35 [W] - Meadville 11 

09/13 BHS 00 [L ] - Hollidaysburg - 24

09/20 BHS 17 [L ] - Westinghouse - 28

09/27 BHS 31 [W] - Connellsville - 0

10/04 BHS 13 [L ] - University - 17

10/10 BHS 07 [W] - Allerdice - 0 

10/18 BHS 30 [L ] - Wheeling Park - 47

       10/25 BHS 14 [L ] - Clarion - 49

Unforgotten BHS ' 74 Graduate

1956 - 2024

Joseph Patrick Colligan  

Joe was born in Butler and graduated from  Butler High School in 1974. He so much wanted to attend his 50th class reunion this fall.

While growing up, Joe always dreamed of being on stage, he often kept his family and friends laughing at his original skits, jokes and imitations. In his high school years, he landed on the stages of Butler High School, where he shined in "Barefoot in the Park," "1776," as Charlie in "Flowers for Algernon" and Pellinore in "Camelot.". 

Butler Personality ~

 James Zambroski

BHS Swim Team 1970

July 13, 2024 in Butler ~

How could this happen in our town?

                                                             Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times

Butler Dairy Queen ~

                            Grand Opening of Dairy Queen 1954

                             Thanks: George Joseph (little boy, left)

Majestic Theater ~

                                                             Flickr

                                                       A Ticket for 10 cents.

Burger Hut ~

Unforgettable

Soap Box Derby ~

On East Jefferson Street
 ca. 1950

Thanks: James Cooper

Old Post Office ~ Architectural Treasure

Model of efficiency . . . and beauty.

The Butler Public Library ~

It was uplifting to go into this building and be among the books.

New library

Hot Dog Shop ~

Photo: Ron Lutz II

Thanksgiving ~ 2023

Could be in Butler . . .

Photo: The Saturday Evening Post

 

St. Mark's Lutheran Church ~

 Photo: Barbara Bloom

McCarren's ~ Butler's Clothier

Always highly appreciated.

BHS Football ~ 2023

 

08/26 BHS 07 [L] - Shaler - 38

09/01 BHS 27 [W] - Meadville - 26

09/08 BHS 38 [W] - Brashear - 0

09/15 BHS 13 [L] - Hollidaysburg - 33

09/22 BHS 19 [L] - Erie - 20

09/29 BHS 00 [L] - Seneca Valley - 55

10/06 BHS 07 [L] - Westinghouse - 36

10/13 BHS 07 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 54

10/20 BHS 12 [L] - McDowell - 52

10/27 BHS 07 [L] - Latrobe - 42

The Penn Theater ~ 2023

Work is going on inside. 

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Butler Airport ~ Across from Deshon Hospital

 1940

Bill May ~ BHS '77 ~ Butler Historian

 Bill May brings history, and especially Butler history, home to appreciative listeners. 

                                                   Photo: Butler Eagle

Bruce Yuhas BHS '70 ~ Butler Author

 Bruce Yuhas has been writing semi-autobiographical novels based on his life while growing up in Butler.

Purchase

Carl Yankowski BHS '66

† May 13, 2023

Butler mourns the passing of Carl Yankowski : an excellent businessman who over his thirty–year career worked for such well–known brands as Proctor & Gamble, Memorex, PepsiCo, General Electric, Cadbury Schweppes, Polaroid, and Sony. His last engagement was with Palm, Inc., the leader of the handheld computing industry.                                                                                                                                                        Photo: Wikipadia

David Pichler ~ attended BHS ca.'86 ~ Olympic Diver

David Pichler was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He began diving at the age of 15. At 32 he had won 12 national titles and was generally considered a threat in international competition, He was on the national team since 1989, and competed in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

                                                     Photo: Outsports

Natili's

 Greatly missed !

Cozy Corner ~

 Never went by without stopping in. 

Cherrie Mahan's Mother ~ Persistant Hope

 The Butler Eagle

23 February 2023

Deshon Hospital ~ 1942

 

Deshon VA Hospital 1942

My father (R) was a pharmacist at Deshon. He sometimes remarked of his time at Deshon General that "We fought the battle of the Airport Inn." Obviously, a reference to nights spent dancing and partying. My question is: does anyone know the exact name and location of the place my Dad referred to as the "Airport Inn"? Perhaps it was on or near Airport Rd. Does it exist any more?

Thanks,

David Meisner

Koch Building ~

Waymarking

Butler architect F.J. Porter, who designed the home of George Troutman

(now City Hall) and the First Methodist Episcopal Church, also designed 

this 1910 neo-classical revival building.

Butler Author ~ Kathleen Marie Smith

 Her latest book has just been published.

The Singing Sheriff of Baltimore

BHS ~ The Cinderella Staircase

Cranberry Eagle

How many of us went up these steps? 

November 22, 1963 ~ J.F.K. - Walter Cronkite Tribute

 

CBS

"It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds? This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world’s doubts must be put to rest. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brook no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That’s the way it is, Monday, November 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."

Elm Court ~ Visitors at a Fundraiser

Butlerites welcome their chance to visit. 

Article in the Butler Eagle

 

Marc Fogel BHS '80 ~ Prisoner in Russia

Marc Fogel is a Butler native. He taught high school history in Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Venezuela and, for the last decade, at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. He had planned to retire this year with his wife Jane Fogel in Oakmont.  

Marc Fogel, 61, has been held in Russia for just over a year. He was detained at an airport upon returning for the school year when his luggage was found to contain medical marijuana, which was recommended by a doctor to treat severe chronic pain from his history of spinal surgeries.

Marc was found guilty of “large-scale drugs smuggling” in June and sentenced to 14 years in a high-security penal colony. 

Marc Fogel remains detained in a Russian prison despite recent calls to free him.  His family now fears the worst because of his debilitating spinal pain and the fact he's being moved to a hard-labor colony.                                                                                                                                              KDKA

Petition to free Marc Fogel

Please sign

BHS Football ~ 2022 ~ 4W - 7 L

 

08/26 BHS 35 [W] - Shaler - 28

09/02 BHS 14 [L] - Meadville - 21

09/09 BHS 35 [W] - Brashear - 22

09/16 BHS 40 [W] - Hollidaysburg - 20

09/23 BHS 37 [W] - Erie - 20

09/30 BHS 07 [L] - Seneca Valley - 42

10/07 BHS 06 [L] - Westinghouse - 39

10/14 BHS 14 [L] - Erie Cathedral - 40

10/21 BHS 24 [L] - Eire McDowell - 48

10/28 BHS 14 [L]  - Latrobe - 28

11/04 BHS 07 [L} - Erie McDowell - 62

  

Paul Gaudino ~ BHS '53 ~ 35 Years of Butler Fitness

† September 6, 2022

You kept us, and later the nation, in shape. Thanks, Paul, for all those years of discipline and dedication.

J. B. Sherman ~ Butler Car Maker ~ Star Iron Works

J.B. Sherman built two automobiles in his Star Iron Works. 

Here a letter to his daughter. [Click to enlarge]

Thanks: Jeff Schalles 

More Information

Michael Dittman ~ Butler Author

Amazon

Michael Dittman is an instructor of humanities and social sciences at Butler County Community College. His most recent book is entitled "Who Holds the Devil".

James Zambroski ~ BHS '71

James Zambroski's cancer diagnosis couldn't derail him from getting his health back on track.

His story.

Michelle Vargo ~

                                  Linkedin

Michelle is a professional dancer who has been gracing the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for 24 years!

Butler Scrap Drive ~ 1943

 Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

Click on image to enlarge

Koch Hardware ~

The store that opened, mornings, before all the others.

 

Harry Greenburger BHS '88

Harry is a filmmaker in New York now and has produced his second feature film "Here After". 

Memorial Day Tribute ~ 2022

 With thanks we remember. 

Butler Catholic School ~

Originally named St. Paul's School 
Built by 
Msgr. William J. Spiegel

Circa 1950

Ticket on Main Street ~

Photo: Butler Historical Society

 

Corey Daum ~ BHS ' 87

✝ 2009

Corey played lead guitar and toured with the band Lizzy Borden.