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The Butler Pennsylvania Blog ~The Butler Pennsylvania Blog ~. . . keeping up with events, past and present, from a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Articles
Where Butler Soldiers Fought and Died ~ Fredericksburg ~ 1862 ~ 134th Pa. V
2011-07-15 20:25:00 Recalling our Civil War heritage.Photo: Randall Stevenson More About: Soldiers , Died
Master Builder Harry Wimer ~
2011-06-30 23:03:00 Harry Wimer [+1950] constructed this building and many other impressive Butler buildings including the Butler Savings and Trust (now the new PNC Bank), Elm Court, TW Phillips Gas Building, Butler "Eagle" Publishing Company Building and the Butler Senior High School (now Junior High). More About: Architecture , Master , Main Street
Diamond Square ~ War Memorial
2011-06-25 11:19:00 The most unusual memorial on the Diamond is the black-granite World War II Memorial . A map of the world, identifying countries involved in the war, is surrounded by a curving wall, made of sacks resembling a field-made bunker and topped by eagles.
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company ~
2011-06-15 12:32:00 Out of business. Sadly missed.1982 More About: Company , Standard
Diehl's Bakery ~ Has Now Been Torn Down
2011-06-07 15:50:00 The building was levelled. 2009 More About: Bakery
Alfred Reed, First Lieutenant 134th Pa ~
2011-05-29 14:18:00 Two Civil War cannons in Diamond Park with the name of a Butler soldier, Alfred G. Reed inscribed on them. Before the Battle of Fredrichsburg he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in the 134th Pa. Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded in one of the last six disastrous charges against a 600-foot section of a chest-high stone wall occupied by the Confederates at the base of Marye?s Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. and lated died from an infection of the fatal gunshot.
WISR ~ Butler's Pioneer Radio Station
2011-05-21 18:58:00 In 1941 WISR beamed its first radio broadcast. More About: Radio , Station , Pioneer
Congressman Mike Kelly ~ BHS '66
2011-05-11 19:20:00 From Car Dealer to Congress . . . More About: Kelly , Mike
Wilbur Glenn Dumbaugh ~ BHS '45
2011-01-01 15:48:00 + 22 July 2010It was his voice. We knew him as a business man. But his true love was music. He had a rich baritone voice and was in demand as a soloist. His voice graced many a choir here and in Western Pennsylvania. More About: Glenn
Diamond Square ~ 1910
2010-12-18 16:52:00 A postcard written to C.C. Boyer on September 8, 1909. Mr. Boyer was the general contractor in the building of the original Wayne St. Viaduct.Photos: Barbara Bloom [Granddaughter of C.C. Boyer] Mr. Boyer on the right. [below] Mr. Boyer in the back seat.
Hot Dog Shop ~
2010-11-20 11:39:00 An ad that appeared in the Butler Eagle Bicentennial Edition July 4, 2000 More About: Shop
The Butler Public Library ~
2010-11-13 22:23:00 It was uplifting to go into this building a be among the books.New library More About: Library , Public
BHS Football Results ~ 2010
2010-11-06 11:27:00 BHS 00 [L] - New Castle 25BHS 00 [L] - North Allegheny 48BHS 14 [L] - Canon-McMillan 19BHS 07 [L] - Pine Richland 35BHS 06 [L] - Shaler 30 BHS 00 [L] - North Hills 34BHS 00 [L] - Mars 40BHS 13 [L] - Erie McDowell 42BHS 17 [L] - Seneca Valley 41 More About: Football , Results
Alva Hill ~ Butler Architect
2010-10-24 14:52:00 Ralph Burt, Dick Rittelmann, John Kosar and Alva Hill Alva Hill [right] was the founder founder of the Butler architecture firm, Burt,Hill. He started with the firm in 1952, along with Ralph Burt. Although Burt-Hill is now a multinational firm (and is being acquired later this year by a Canadian firm), the largest office still is in Butler, employing roughly 150 people here.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hill was an accomplished pilot fighting in World War II flying a P51 Mustang fighter plane. Consequentially, Mr. Hill met Mr. Burt during the war and returned to their hometown of Butler to make architectural history. More About: Architecture
The Butler Theater ~
2010-10-10 00:02:00 The Butler Warner Theater on Jefferson Street was torn down to make room for PNC's drive-through bank. 1960?
Old Butler ~ Excavation ~ Preserving ~
2010-09-26 11:00:00 They tore down the old Army-Navy Store to make a parking lot for Young's Funeral Home across the street and this is what we see now on the side of the building. Photo: Dick VernonPreserving and beautifying. September 2010Photo: Bob Orsborn
Elm Court ~ The House We Never Saw
2010-09-18 15:02:00 The fountain at the McKean Street entrance . . .. . . most of us never got closer than this. More About: House
The Shaw House ~ Behing the Court House
2010-09-03 15:41:00 This house was built by Walter Lowrie, Butler's only United States senator, in 1828. More About: House , Homes
Car Show 2010 ~
2010-08-21 11:19:00 Photo: DeWayne JohnstonCar Show 2010 in Butler Pennsylvania : Home of the Jeep. More About: Car show
Skyway Drive-in Theater ~
2010-08-06 11:26:00 In the 1950s this was a hit, especially for teen-agers.Read reminiscences of Bob Osborn BHS '58.Photo: American Classic ImagesBack in the 1950's Butler Co. had six Drive -In Theater s, Chicora Drive In (Rt 268), Geibel's Drive In (Rt 68 East), Hill Top Drive In (Rt 68 East), Skyway Drive In (Rt 68 West), Sunset View Drive In (Freeport Hill) and the Pioneer Drive In (Rt 8 North).
The Swinging Bridge ~
2010-07-31 16:49:00 At the end of Diamond Street taking you to Pullman Park ballfield.Photo: Barbara Bloom
Butler Architecture ~
2010-07-27 18:07:00 Court House, view from the back.Photo: Barbara Bloom More About: Architecture
Pullman Park ~
2010-07-14 12:15:00 Pullman Park , built in 1934, was used for minor league baseball for twenty years until the Pittsburgh Pirates farm team left in 1951. The ballpark saw many famous faces during its professional baseball days, including Lou Gehrig, Whitey Ford, and Joe DiMaggio who played for a farm team of the New York Yankees. As of 2009 Pullman Park is the home of the Butler Blue Sox.
35th Annual Butler Road Race ~ 2010
2010-06-28 11:21:00 Keeping up, getting ahead . . . More About: Sports , Race , Road , Main Street
The Old Terrace Drive-In ~
2010-05-29 17:12:00 This is all that is left of the Old Terrace Drive -in, 5 miles north of Butler on Route 8.Photo: Dewayne Johnson More About: Restaurants
William Perry
More articles from this author:2010-05-19 15:05:00 William Perry , former Secretary of Defense, in Butler's Bicentenial parade.March 12, 2000[photo: Paul Johnson] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
