Butler Car Show ~ 2008

Looking up Main Street, standing in front of WISR.

Photo: Robert Emigh

The Butler BlueSox ~

Great news for Butler!

We have a new baseball team ~ The Butler BlueSox

BlueSox Homepage

Standings

Pullman Standard ~ Gone

As seen from Route 8

Photo: Robert Emigh

Mary Hulton Phillips ~ Butler's Philanthropist

She gave us the 
Meridon Museum 
 . . .  and shared with us the beauty she loved.
† January 19, 2009

Robert's Bakery ~

Another bakery closed.

Nixon Hotel ~ Guests

William Bendix on a visit to Butler. 

Thanks: Beau Olson

Alameda Park ~ Carousel

Remember?

Once we rode the colorful horses . . . reached for the rings.

Photo: Robert Emigh

Red Head ~

Spic and span . . . and low prices.

Butler Senior High School ~

The school on the hill.

1965

Who Can Help Me Out?

I would like to pay tribute on the blog to Butlerites who were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Who knows who they were?
Thank you, Charles C.

Armco Basketball ~

This Armco team won the 1973 Industrial League Championship.

Back row: Wayne Smith, Pat McClellan, Don Bachura, Jack McClelland, Rocco Sloboda, Mickey Zaccari, Fred Maier.
Front row: Fran Callihan, Vince Sommariva, Manager Stan Zielinski, Pep Monteleone, Ron Campbell, John Burger.

Young Funeral Home ~

Founded in 1896. Since then, four generations of the Young family have been serving us in Butler.

Morgan's Diner ~

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

Time Capsule ~

Blast From the Past — Pedestrians bundle up against the bitter cold which struck Butler County on Jan. 17, 1977 The thermometer in front of Pittsburgh National Bank at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets registered 12 below zero at 10 a.m. Subzero temperatures are in the forecast again, with the high Thursday only reaching the single digits and the overnight low dropping to minus 4. ~ Butler Eagle

Old St. Paul's School ~

St. Paul's School
ca. 1940
Corner of Locust and Monroe Streets.

Wayne Street Project ~

Another Sad Closing ~

Robert's Bakery

109 S Main St

is closing at the end of business today.

James Pugh ~ BHS '68

Our James Pugh has had a distinguished career as a freelance trombonist, composer, and educator. His playing crosses all boundaries. He has been recorded in small-group jazz improvisational settings with such artists as Joe Lovano, David "Fathead" Newman, and André Previn. He has recorded classical chamber music with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble as well as the chamber music of Paul Bowles, Irwin Bazelon, and Ben Johnston. He has been a featured soloist on Grammy-Award winning recordings with Woody Herman and has recorded large orchestral works with the Eos, Concordia, St. Luke's, and 92nd Street Y Orchestras. Jim is well known for his musical integrity, inspiring improvisation, virtuosity, and all-encompassing versatility.

In NPR's year-end round-up of the Best of 2008, trombonist James Pugh’s new recording X-Over Trombone of three jazzy concertos stands out on top.

Hutchinson's Cleaners & Dyers ~

And they delivered . . .

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.

Hot Dog Shop ~

An ad that appeared in the Butler Eagle Bicentennial Edition

July 4, 2000

Armco Dancing Girls ~ ca. 1950

[L. to r.] Evelyn Druga, Barbara Schultz, Tamara Boring and Joyce Smith.