The Butler Theater ~

The Butler Warner Theater on Jefferson Street was torn down [1960] to make room for PNC's drive-through bank.

New Monroe Street Bridge ~

Looking towards Jefferson Street.

Photo: Robert Emigh

Old Butler ~ Excavation ~ Preserving ~

They tore down the old Army-Navy Store to make a parking lot for Young's Funeral Home across the street and this is what we see now on the side of the building.

Photo: Dick Vernon

Preserving and beautifying. September 2010

Photo: Bob Orsborn

Elm Court ~ The House We Never Saw

The fountain at the Polk Street entrance . . .

. . . we felt regal when we sat here and wondered.

The Lowrie/Shaw House ~ Behind the Court House

This house was built by Walter Lowrie, Butler's United States senator, in 1828. The house and its furnishings were bequeathed to the Butler Historical Society in 1986, by Isabelle Shaw, a descendent of the Sullivan family, owners of the house since 1839.

Car Show 2010 ~

Photo: DeWayne Johnston

Car Show 2010
Butler is a car town: Home of the Jeep 

Center Avenue ~

Back in the streetcar days. 

Thanks: Don Eury

High School Classroom ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

The Swinging Bridge ~

Photo: Barbara Bloom

At the end of Diamond Street taking you to Pullman Park ballfield.

Butler Architecture ~

Court House, view from the back.

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Pullman Park ~

Pullman Park, built in 1934, was used for minor league baseball for twenty years until the Pittsburgh Pirates farm team left in 1951. The ballpark saw many famous faces during its professional baseball days, including Lou Gehrig, Whitey Ford, and Joe DiMaggio who played for a farm team of the New York Yankees.
As of 2009 Pullman Park is the home of the Butler Blue Sox.

Penn Theater Lineup ~ 1941

Thanks: Beau Olsen

35th Annual Butler Road Race ~ 2010

Keeping up, getting ahead . . .

Photographer Don Carlson ~ BHS '38

The Piper Cub crash near Butler is only to show you what can happen when something goes wrong - the pilot did not survive.
- Don Carlson

Photographer Don Carlson ~ BHS '38

RAY ANDRE GENERAL TIRE - A picture I took for advertising purposes with Ray (standing) showing the new snow tires to a potential customer (actually my close friend Vin Cooper who I persuaded to pose for the pix).
- Don Carlson