Butler Personality ~

 James Zambroski

BHS Swim Team 1970

Burger Hut ~

Unforgettable

McCarren's ~ Butler's Clothier

Always highly appreciated.

The Penn Theater ~ 2023

Work is going on inside. 

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Natili's

 Greatly missed !

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 Scrap Drive ~ 1943

 Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

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Ticket on Main Street ~

Photo: Butler Historical Society

 

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 

First English Lutheran Church ~

Worsley's

Photo: Gerald Bundy

Catholic Daughters of America - Marching Band

Parade 1958

Photo: Pat Gallagher

Happy Butlerites ~ Before Coronna

Photo: Butler Eagle

Winter in the 60's ~

Keeping Main Street clear . . .

Thanks: Brian Crouch

The Berg House ~

Photo: Joe Randig

The Berg House located on North Main Street on the right hand side

going up the hill. Joe wonders if anyone remembers or has any information on the Berg house.

Butler County National Bank ~

Beautiful Butler Architecture

View of Butler ~

Photo: DeWayne Johnston

Woolworth's ~

Thanks: Matthew Grubbs

T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company ~

One of our most beautiful buildings.

Poetic Tribute

Photo: Barbara Bloom