Christmas on Main Street~

 Thanks: Fred Vero

Daniel D’Aniello BHS ' 64

Forbes

A successful Butler businessman who is one of three billionaire founders of the private equity firm 

The Carlyle Group.

A Tribute from Butler, Pa. ~ 58 Years Ago

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J.F.K.

23 November 1963

Grief came flooding in

over every hill,

down all our streets

right into the heart of town,

the day the President was shot,

insisting that he lie in state

here with us

for three days and nights,

until they came

with a caisson,

behind which

a veiled mourner

with children walked,

taking him as we watched

out across the viaduct

and on up over

our steepest hill

until we lost them

from sight.

Then silence hung long over our town

until the morning the rains ceased

when we woke to sun

breaking through dark clouds,

and looking up we saw gently rippling Vs

against the emblazoned sky

and heard flocks of wild geese

calling down to us

to rise up, to carry on.

With spirits gladdened

we set to removing flowers

and the portraits from off the streets,

candles and lamps were gathered

from curbs and fences

and then we stripped the trees

of those long black ribbons

that during those days of grief

had been fluttering in the breeze.

Source 

Butler Attorneys ~ 1947

Thanks: Jim Schaffner
Click on the photo to enlarge.

Butler Firefighters ~

A tribute to our devoted firefighters.
Our constant thanks. . .

The Hot Dog Shop ~ A Longtime Butler Favorite

Out of business 
as of July 8, 2004

This is what we miss!

BHS Football ~ 2021

 

08/27 BHS 07 [L] - Kiski 21

09/10 BHS 27 [W] - Meadville - 13

09/18 BHS 21 [L] - McDowell - 38

09/24 BHS 42 [W] - Gen. McLane 20

10/01 BHS 56 [W] - Harbor Creek - 06

10/08 BHS 34 [L] - Westinghouse - 44

10/15 BHS 07 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 58

10/22 BHS 60 [W] - Franklin - 08

10/29 BHS 27 [W] - Erie - 23

The Hot Dog Shop ~

The Men who made it.

Photo: The Butler Historical Society

Poems about Butler ~

 Poems about a small town in Western Pennsylvania

Monday Morning in Butler ~

Insight

Phillips Mansion ~

 Phillips Mansion

On Route 8 south of Butler

Anderson´s Restaurant~

 

Opened 1906

Thanks: Alyssa Hilliard 

Bantam Building ~ Home of the Jeep

They're out there getting votes to save this building where the Jeeps were made. 

Write to the Mayor

Main Street Parade ~ 1941

Many a soldier marched this street. Many never returned.

Insight

Capitol Theater ~

Spent our Saturday afternoons here. 10 cents. We loved it.
[Now the Brick House restaurant]

At the turn of the last century, the two properties that The Brick House now occupies, housed vaudeville theaters. The Lyric Theater occupied the space where the main bar and dining areas are today. The Capitol Theater is above the game room / banquet room. In the 1940's the Capitol was converted into one of Butler's five movie houses. Legend has it that Houdini performed and Herbert Hoover campaigned there sometime along it's storied history. Movie house records, found in the rafters, indicate that hundreds came to see movies on a nightly basis.

The Capitol Theater is still intact today on the second floor. In the early 1970's the Capitol side of the building was purchased and renovated into a restaurant by The Eat 'n Park Corp. where it remained until it's late 70's move to New Castle Road. Their renovation carefully protected the key elements of the Capitol Theater thus preserving this Historic site.

from: brickhousebutler.com 

Bridge to the South Side ~

 Photo: Robert Emigh

Made in Butler ~

Bantam Station Wagon 1938

Photo: Bantam Club

Alameda Park ~ Pavillion and Lake

Postcard dated 1912

Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

First English Lutheran Church ~