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

Butler Little Theater ~

Schedule

Butler Little Theatre is a non-profit that strives to offer a broad range of high quality and entertaining live theater experiences to the community. They have been doing this for 75 years and it has provided us with rewarding and fun experiences. They offer their audiences comedies to delight, dramas to stir emotions, mysteries to challenge, and classics to expand theatrical and literary horizons.

BHS ~ Gym

For workout and exceptional games.

Photo: Barbara Bloom

Armco Acid Dam Construction ~

July 20, 1936

Messrs. C.C.Boyer, Howard Smith and George Stewart.
Thanks: 
Barbara Bloom

Vietnam War Memorial ~

They fought and died for us.

Photo: Barbara Bloom

To the Mothers of the Fallen

David E. Todd

Wrote this book to show his appreciation of the Armco. He published it himself and distributed it to older employees and retirees.
Available:

Lyndora School ~

Photo from 1990. The school is no longer there. 

Thanks: Aryl Bashline

Sun Drug Store

Highly frequented downtown drug store. We did Run to Sun . . .

The Friday Nite Games ~ 2016

                                 BHS 06 [L] – Penn Hills - 37

                                 BHS 21 [W] – @Altoona - 12 

                                 BHS 06 [L] - Seneca Valley -42

                                 BHS 07 [L] - @North Allegheny - 49

                                 BHS 34 [W] - @Shaler - 16

                                 BHS 07 [L]  - Central Catholic - 49

                                 BHS 28 [L] -  @Norwin - 35

                                 BHS 13 [L] -  Pine Richland - 28

                                 BHS 17 [L] -  @Canon-McMillan - 31

Alameda Park ~

Boating at Alameda Park. 1909

Thanks: Sandy Kocian

Arnold Palmer ~ A Tribute

Surely he played our Butler Country Club.

♰ September 25, 2016

Butler Authors ~

Bob Hazy 

BHS '82

Bob Hazy is a writer inspired by the works of Melville, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Dostoevsky. He studied literature at Yale University earning a BA and also holds a MS in computer science from Stevens. Although Bob built a career in information technology leadership and is currently an independent consultant, his real love is writing and painting Click here. He lives in the foothills of the Sierra in Northern California with his son, Nathan, and their dog, Gus.

Congratulations, Bob, on your recently published book: 

McGhee in the Gloaming

Time Capsule ~ BHS '76

[Click] A newspaper article about Butler and BHS '76

by: Matt Viser

1 September 2016

Scrap-iron for Victory ~

1944

Boys collecting scrap-iron, doing their part in the War Effort. 

Photo: Butler Art Center
Project

Alhambra Hotel ~

Nov. 17, 1975

Smoke continued to billow from the Alhambra Hotel - corner of Cunningham and Pillow Streets - at dawn as fireman from the Butler City Fire Department poured thousands of gallons of water into the 65-year-old building. Sixty-year-old Robert Walker died in the fire.

from: The Butler Eagle

Butler's Howard Johnson's ~

This plush restaurant 
was at the corner of North Main and Fulton Streets.

Old Liquor Store ~

For 20 Ohio Marines ~ A Butler Tribute

+ Lance Cpl. Eric J. Bernholtz

14 Marine reservists from the Cleveland area were killed in the first week of August 2005 by a roadside bomb -- one of the heaviest blows suffered by a single unit in the war. Two days earlier, six others from the battalion were killed while on sniper duty.
A Tribute to 20 Ohio Marines from Butler.
A Picture Tribute
 

The Old Trolley Station ~

A fine example of Butler classical architecture.

Bob Hazy BHS '82 ~ View of Lyndora

Lyndora
A view from the painter's easel.
Thanks: Bob Hazy

Catholic Daughters of America ~

State Champions 1973
Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

Harmony Short Line Trolley ~

Thanks: Cappy Pucket

A Harmony Line trolley crosses the Lyndora valley. The trestle has been gone for many years, but at least one of the concrete posts used to support the trestle can still be seen from the location of the old Pullman Standard office building.

Inside the Court House ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Digging Out ~

1976

Thanks: Leslie McKain

Summit Academy ~ Herman, Pa.

A tribute to 

Samuel Costanzo

Founder and Headmaster:  

Friend and Helper of The Young.
About the Academy

Butler Theater ~

Happy Days

Connoquenessing Creek ~

The postmark on the back is dated July12,1935

Thanks: Dennis Moffitt

St. Mary's Monastery at Herman ~

First generation Italians loved this Capuchin monastery. Crowds of them would make pilgrimages to Herman and spend the day there honoring St. Francis, the patron saint of the land they had left behind. 

Thanks: Mike Schuler

Loss ~

Thanks, Nick Ban, for 25 years of service.

Photo: Butler News

John Quincy Adams Kennedy Mansion ~

Hidden away beside the Court House.

Thanks: Beau Olson

Nixon Hotel 1973 ~

Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

The Worsley's Building ~

The building was so badly damaged in a fire on Friday night, March 11, 2016 that it will have to be torn down.
Photo: John Cingolani

Lyndora School ~

Third Grade 1953, 
Ms Eberhardt.

Thanks: John Pichler

Cherrie Ann Mahan ~ Dear Little Girl

February 22, 1985

After all these years, she is still gone, but not forgotten, as her family and friends still pray for her safe return.Today marks the anniversary of the disappearance of 8-year-old Cherrie Ann Mahan. The dark-haired and wide-eyed third-grade student at Winfield Elementary School was dropped off from her school bus along Cornplanter Road in Winfield Township, Cabot, Pennsylvania shortly after 4 o'clock that afternoon. Cherrie never made the 50 feet from her bus stop to her front door, and today, State Police at Butler are still collecting leads that will hopefully bring her home safely someday.

Tribute to BHS athletes ~

 A gift of the NFL to BHS.

Footballs honoring Terry Hanratty and Rich Saul. Both played in Super Bowl games, Hanratty for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Saul for the Los Angeles Rams.

Photo: Insidebutlercounty.com