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