Chestnut St. Inn ~

Always liked the bartenders . . .

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Construction ~

Where Woolworth's used to be. 

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Butler County Airport Today ~

Donald B. Carlson Sr. BHS '38

† 8 September 2010

Donald Carlson sent me some of the first pictures posted on the Butler Blog. As a tribute to him I have posted the pictures he sent me. Click the label Photographer Don Carlson below. -- Charles

After graduating from BHS Don Carlson worked as a newspaper photographer, while earning his private pilot's license. Anxious to join the service, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 7 July 1942. He served as a flight engineer for the 10th Weather Headquarters in the China-Burma-India Theater, flying over the Himalayan Mountains (The Hump) and throughout China, Japan and Korea. He was a member of the CBI/Hump Pilots Association and was a 50-year member of the Butler Masonic Lodge. Don served faithfully with Community Companion Volunteers, a program of Lutheran Home Services.

Bickel's Shoes ~

Thanks: Gayle Barnett Radwanski

View of Butler ~

Looking out from the Court House to the hospital.

World War II Mothers ~

Photo: Melanie Wetzel

Butler Fire Department ~ 1910

Vigilant as ever. 

Route 8 North of Butler ~ The Old Stone House

The Old Stone House

Built 1819

As children we heard frightful stories about what happened here, everything shrouded in mystery.