Made in Butler ~

American Austin

Photo: Bantam Club

The perfect  Christmas present.

Armco Veterans ~

Thanks: Dick Gamble

View of Butler ~

Photo: DeWayne Johnston

Building the first Wayne Street Viaduct ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Hot Dog Sandwich Shop ~

Matchcover

Thanks: Butler County Historical Society

Butler Train Station ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Under the Wayne Street Bridge. 

It was a busy place.

Autumn in Butler ~

Photo: DeWayne Johnston

BHS ~ Friday Night Games ~ 2018

                                 18/08 BHS 00 [L] - Kiski Area - 00
                                 24/08 BHS 07 [L] - North Hills - 42
                                 31/08 BHS 58 [W] - Baldwin - 13
                                 07/09 BHS 21 [L] - Mount Lebanon 44
                                 14/09 BHS 00 [L] - Pine-Richland - 63
                                 21/09 BHS 00 [L] - Seneca Valley - 37
                                 28/09 BHS 00 [L] - Norwin - 42
                                 05/10 BHS 03 [L] - North Allegheny - 55
                                 12/10 BHS 10 [L] - Pittsburgh Catholic - 45
                                 19/10 BHS 14 [L] - Hempfield Area - 31
                                 26/10 BHS 13 [L] - Canon-McMillan - 44

Ray Andre ~

Photo: Charles Bashline

Butler Authors ~ C.F. Bellis ~ BHS '71

"I wrote Remember Reeny to memorialize my mom. The book takes place from 1937 to 1947 and encompasses her life during this turbulent time in American history."

C.F.Bellis

BHS Band ~

Band practice in the street, November 1944

Thanks: Barb Bailey

Moraine State Park ~

Looking toward the West.

Photo: visitbutlercounty.com

Viaduct Market ~

Walking across the Viaduct, 2007

Photo: Lee Claus

Woolworth's ~

Thanks: Matthew Grubbs

The Maridon Museum ~

The Maridon opened on May 8th, 2004. It is the only museum in the Western Pennsylvania region with a specific focus on Asian Art and Culture coupled with German Meissen porcelain. The museum — both the objects and the buildings that house them — is the gift of Mary Hulton Phillips. Patricia Lowry, writing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pronounced the Maridon a "gleaming little gem of a museum."

Photo: Brian Loch

YMCA ~ Tumble Inn

Photo: DeWayne Johnston

The former YMCA now CUBS Hall was the site of Friday night "Tumble Inn" dances in the gym from the 50's to 60's +. Not sure when they ended. As a teenager, it was "Be there or be square."
DeWayne Johnston

Summit Township Elementary School ~

A proud school on Bonniebrook Road.

Our Stately Post Office ~

Photo: Barbara Bloom

State Police Barracks ~

As seen from the High School. 

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Looking East ~

View of Jefferson Street.

Photo: Charles Bashline

G. R. Minner ~ Butler Author

Old Trolley Station ~

A beautiful example of Butler classical architecture.

Broad Street School ~

The newer Broad St. School which had been closed until sometime this school year when children from Oakland Twp. were bussed here due to water quality issues at their school. 

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Butler High School Teachers ~

In Memory of
Butler High School Teachers

Please suggest living and past teachers I should add to the list.  Contact me.

• Barkley Roy
• Burnheart Sarah
• Butler Betty
• Capezutti Gerald A.
• Cavalero James
• Cingolani, Charles
• Clements James C.
• Corona Rudy
• Crane Thomas
• Cunningham Miss
• Doerr Dorothy
• DeFurio Anthony
• Dr. Drydan
• Elias Herb
• Ellis William
• Fusco Mr.
• Greenawalt Mr.
• Helms Ruth
• Hovis Robert E.
• Hutchison Virginia
• Ifft John T.
• Ifft Edith
• Klein Ellen
• Klein Elmer
• Kovacik, Geoffrey
• Lehnard William
• Logan Clifford R.
• Love Ellis
• McDowell James
• Miller Clarence Wray
• Miller Ray W. 
• Nitowski Mr.
• Palmer Nelson
• Palmer Walter
• Polanec Koula
• Reed Gertrude
• Reimold Mr.
• Rogner Chuck
• Rosenzweig Emil
• Schweinberg Raymond
• Shewalter Mary Ellen
• Stewart Al
• Trypinski William

Sisters of Mercy ~ Teachers

RSM Cemetery, Cresson, Pa.

Sisters of Mercy

 

We went to the graveyard to find them

The nuns from grade school days

Lying beneath their crosses,

All there except one,

The delicate nun with soft hands

She whom we took music lessons from.

Alone with her now

In the convent parlor

Bending over her piano

She plays songs they had sung together.

And hears herself humming

When standing out among the crosses,

Tearless, she confided,

For having to wait so long.

She looks away

But keeps on playing,

Not lifting her eyes

From off her soft white fingers

Trembling lightly

On yellowish ivory keys.

Photo: Albert Ladoux