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Monday, December 06, 2021

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.

Monday, November 22, 2021

A Tribute from Butler, Pa. ~ 58 Years Ago

upi
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 

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Monday, November 01, 2021

Friday, October 15, 2021

The Hot Dog Shop ~ A Longtime Butler Favorite

Out of business 
as of July 8, 2004

This is what we miss!


Saturday, September 18, 2021

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

Friday, September 17, 2021

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Saturday, May 15, 2021

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