Garden Gate Restaurant ~

On 422 West. 

Thanks: Bob Snodgrass

Ernie's Esquire ~ Rt. 8 South

Was once a select, elegant restaurant for Butlerites.

Hot Dog Shop ~

Hot dogs on the grill.

Thanks: Dave Zaccari

The Old Terrace Drive-In ~

This is all that is left of the Old Terrace Drive-in, 5 miles north of Butler on Route 8.
Photo: Dewayne Johnson

Morgan's at Bon Aire ~

Back in the '60s before the big shopping centers opened.

Click on the picture to enlarge.

J.F.Kennedy ~ Natili's Restaurant

On Wayne Street at the corner of Main. This photograph hangs in Natili's restaurant.

Photo: Mary B. Gordon

Morgan's Diner ~

Bill Morgan's original diner in Butler at Jefferson and Washington Streets years later.

William Morgan ~ Esteemed Butlerite

+ November 30, 2008
Bill Morgan started his career as an entrepreneur as a small boy delivering newspapers in Meridian, where he walked up and back a half-mile lane, all for two cents per paper. He ended up with a chain of 52 restaurants serving Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.

East Jefferson Street ~

This was once a highly frequented Butler establishment.

Bill Morgan's First Diner ~

The the corner of Jefferson and Washington Streets.

Photographer Don Carlson ~ BHS '38

HEADLAND'S LUNCH CAR - owned by Bob Headland and his wife, Etta, in the 1930s and 40s, it was situated on W. Cunningham St. just east of the Clinton Hotel and Sullivan Run (creek), next door to Ray Andre General Tire and across the street from Klugh's Market and Adolph's Drug Store. It serviced not only Butler residents, including many from Armco, and a lot of through traffic on the then busy Rt. 422. [Don Carlson, the photographer, and his brother, Bill, worked there in the late 30s for $12.85 a week plus all they could eat.]

- Don Carlson

Dairy Queen ~ Dan Joseph BHS '56

. . . and it wasn't far from our High School.
My dad built and ran the Dairy Queen at top of New Castle Street hill in the early 50's. I worked there when I was a teenager until I went to the Marines in 1956 just after graduating from Butler High School.
Dan Joseph
E-mail: itsmefolks@centurylink.net

Forty-Six Years Ago ~

Main Street, December 1960

Thanks: Brian Crouch

Clinton Hotel ~

One of our former imposing buildings, a favorite hotel. Now sadly missed.