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  

 

Butler County Tourism ~

Photo: Butler County Tourism

Connoquenessing Creek has been nominated for Pennsylvania’s River of the Year! It was 1 of 5 nominations picked out of hundreds of submissions. Over time this local waterway had been neglected and abused, leading to its rating as the 2nd most polluted waterway in America in 2000. Since then through Allegheny Aquatic Alliance and other organizations’ efforts, significant positive changes have been made to this creek and have resulted in the restoration of it. Now we have the opportunity to show our appreciation to this precious waterway by making it the River of the Year! We each have the ability to do this by simply voting for the Connie! The voting period is now until 12/22. It is such a simple yet powerful way to show your support for this vital local waterway. Help us spread the word and bring the positive attention to the Connoquenessing Creek that it deserves!
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Loyalsock Creek has been named the River of the Year

Sts. Peter and Paul Ukranian Orthodox Church ~

An impressive church looking east to Butler.

Linda Randig ~

Linda Randig researched and wrote this book this year and it just came out two weeks ago. It covers old Mom and Pop grocery stores within the city limits between 1903 and 2017. She found about 450 stores including well-known ones such as Mintz's, The Kozy Korner, Center Dairy and The Inn as well as many others in every neighborhood of the city. The book will appeal to those of us who are old enough to remember these stores as well as younger people who missed out on them but are interested in Butler's history. The cover features Earl Doria in his store on Mercer Street and there are another 16 pages of black and white photos.

The book can be ordered directly from Linda at 

joeswife803@gmail.com/

Larkin & Co. ~

Photo: Butler County Historical Society

The Inn ~

Thanks: Dewayne Johnston

Old Butler Brewery ~

Photo: ?

Friday Night Games ~ 2017

                      25/08 BHS 00 [L] - Knoch - 28   

                      01/09 BHS 21 [L] - Penn Hills - 54

                      08/09 BHS 45 [W] - Altonna - 28
                      15/09 BHS 00 [L] - Seneca Valley - 35

                      22/09 BHS 07 [L] - North Allegheny - 29

                      29/09 BHS 47 [W] - Shaler - 00

                      06/10 BHS 14 [L] - Pittsburgh Catholic - 49

                      13/10 BHS 06 [L] -  Norwin - 07

                      20/10 BHS 00 [L] -  Pine Richland - 64

                      27/10 BHS 28 [W] -  Canon-McMillan - 26

                      

T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company ~

One of our most beautiful buildings.

Poetic Tribute

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Butler ~ A Baseball City

A bar across the street from the baseball park.

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

West End School ~

The former West End School. 

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Butler Armco Pool ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Wayne Street Viaduct ~

What used to be. 

Old Junior High School ~ The Yellow Building

What is left of the Junior High School: a monument.

 Thanks: Barbara Bloom

BHS ~ Swimming

BHS Pool 2014

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Masonic Temple ~

Our Classical Main Street buildings.

Butler County Authors ~ Polly Shaw ~ BHS '69

Polly Shaw, a native of Butler, BHS class of 1969, and lifelong Butler County resident, is a retired Seneca Valley teacher.  For over twenty years she has been a volunteer at McConnells Mill and Moraine State Parks.  In 2015 she heard about in inquiry from Arcadia Press for someone to take up the challenge to write a book at Moraine State Park.  She stepped up, and it was published in 2017.  She is now working on a second book, this time about McConnells Mill State Park.  She is an area speaker and presents programs about many aspects drawn from her book, to civic groups and public park programs.

Morgan's Drive In

This photo of Morgan's Drive-in Restaurant at Bon Aire

hangs on the wall of the New Hoagie Shop in the Bon Aire

Plaza. Dated 1963 - origin unknown. All of the Morgan Company's

pictures were lost in a fire.

Thanks: Paul Johnston Jr.  

Butler Little Theater ~

Photo: Rick Alexander

Schedule

Alameda Boating ~

Quiet pleasure.

Thanks: Sandy Kocian

Unforgettable ~

On the stairs at Butler Junior High School.

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Lyndora Bridge ~

On the way to Pittsburgh.

Lyndora School ~

First Grade 1955, Miss Duffy

Thanks: John Pichler
Click on picture to enlarge.

Cummings Candy & Coffee ~

Barry Cummings, owner of Cummings Candy & Coffee, said the coffee shop has been in the family since 1905.

Photo: Post Gazette

Snow Storm ~ November 1950

 Butler Junior High School 
[The Yellow Building]
in the background.

Photo: Mark H. Welchley

Butler Author ~ Larry Parisi

Larry D. Parisi, author of Butler County Revisited, compiled this book using rare postcards from his personal collection, as well as a few cards submitted from other collectors.

Farmers National Bank ~

Photo: Indiana Geological Survey

Worsley's ~

A corner of our lives. 

Photo: Gerald D. Fisher

Lowry House ~

[At the corner of Jefferson and Main]

This pen and ink drawing of an earlier view of the Lowry House hotel used to hang in my grandmother's house. I remember hearing that she had commissioned it from a local artist, Robert C. Rehm. It is based on an old photograph. 
- - - Jeff Schalles

Butler Little Theater ~

Schedule

Butler Little Theatre is a non-profit that strives to offer a broad range of high quality and entertaining live theater experiences to the community. They have been doing this for 75 years and it has provided us with rewarding and fun experiences. They offer their audiences comedies to delight, dramas to stir emotions, mysteries to challenge, and classics to expand theatrical and literary horizons.