Keeping up with past and present happenings in a remarkable small town.
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Friday, July 16, 2021
Thursday, July 08, 2021
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021
Main Street Parade ~ 1941
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Capitol Theater ~
Spent our Saturday afternoons here. 10 cents. We loved it.
[Now the Brick House restaurant]
[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 Saturday, April 03, 2021
Monday, March 08, 2021
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Monday, January 11, 2021
Saturday, December 05, 2020
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
Friday, November 13, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Domenick Fratto ~
44 years ago this morning, we lost an amazing man... my father. I remember the day well . . .
Bruce Fratto
Monday, October 12, 2020
Monday, September 21, 2020
Sunday, September 13, 2020
BHS Football ~ 2020
09/11 BHS 21 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 5509/18 BHS 07 [L] - McDowell - 4509/26 BHS 25 [L] - Erie - 3510/02 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
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Saturday, July 04, 2020
Catholic Daughters of America - Marching Band
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Saturday, May 02, 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Jack Bowman ~ Butler Musician
Photo: Paul D. Johnston Jr.
Jack Bowman
played drums in the BHS band then went on to play in the U.S. Air Force Band. Upon returning home he did union jobs with various
groups and started his own big band style group which played all over Western PA and Ohio for many years. Jack played drums in several
Butler Musical Theater Guild productions. He was also well known as a barber at the Point Barber Shop. He retired from playing recently
and donated all the charts from his many band years to the Butler High School Music Program.
Sunday, March 08, 2020
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Grateful Marianne Cornetti ~
Coming Home Concert
Photo: Rome Sentinel
Photo: Rome Sentinel
Opera singer Marianne Cornetti performed on February 9, 2020 at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Herman.
It was her way to give back to the church and community that helped her career get a start, she performed “Then Sings My Soul: Celebrating 30 Years of an Operatic Career and a Lifetime of Music”.
Monday, February 03, 2020
Sunday, February 02, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Saturday, December 07, 2019
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