Bantam Building ~ Home of the Jeep

They're out there getting votes to save this building where the Jeeps were made. 

Write to the Mayor

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 

Bridge to the South Side ~

 Photo: Robert Emigh

Made in Butler ~

Bantam Station Wagon 1938

Photo: Bantam Club

Alameda Park ~ Pavillion and Lake

Postcard dated 1912

Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

First English Lutheran Church ~

Linda Randig ~ Butler Author

Hello, Charles, Thank you for posting about my new poetry book. I lived in Connoquenessing until I was twelve in the 1950s and that is what the book is about. I did make it general enough that people from any small town should find things to relate to. Those who did not grow up in a small town might enjoy reading what that experience was like. The price of the book is $10 but there is also a $1 per book postage charge if anyone would like me to mail it to them. 

Linda Randig    joeswife803@gmail.com

Made in Butler ~

Coupe 1940

Photo: Bantam Club

Domenick Fratto ~

44 years ago this morning, we lost an amazing man... my father. I remember the day well . . .

Bruce Fratto

Worsley's

Photo: Gerald Bundy

BHS Golden Tornado Band !

Photo: Butler Eagle

BHS Football ~ 2020

 

09/11 BHS 21 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 55

09/18 BHS 07 [L] - McDowell -  45

09/26 BHS 25 [L] - Erie - 35

10/02 BHS 06 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 56

10/16 BHS 55 [W] - Erie - 14

10/23 BHS 28 [W] - Slippery Rock - 03

10/31 BHS 33 [W] - Erie - 0

Butler Memorial Hospital ~ Original Edifice

How many mothers
walked down
the sandstone steps
from our hospital
overlooking town
with babies in their arms
singing silent songs of joy?

Jr. High School Gym ~

Where memories of great games linger . . .

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Catholic Daughters of America - Marching Band

Parade 1958

Photo: Pat Gallagher