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I've been to Butler when I was in a Drum and Bugle Corps. Most of the town came out to the school and fed us. Nice, small town people.
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I've been to Butler when I was in a Drum and Bugle Corps. Most of the town came out to the school and fed us. Nice, small town people.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Oldest marched in that corps, and worked their Bingo hall.
And it was the General Butler Vagabonds of Lyndora, PA.
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twinoaks207
Having Fun!
Born in Grove City, grew up in Butler, spent tons of time with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins in Slippery Rock & Harrisville.
Proud Clarion University of PA grad (it was Clarion State College back then).
Butler, PA, pop at that time (60's & 70's) was somewhere around 25,000. Major industry was 2 steel mills. One huge high school (my grad class was 920 people). Two public swimming pools -- we'd walk across town to get to one of them in the summer. Wonderful downtown - Woolworth's, Allen's Toy Store, Cummings Candy Shop (real honest-to-God soda fountain, still there -- made the best cherry cokes!). Wonderful parades down Main Street for Memorial Day and the Friday after Thanksgiving. Wonderful ethnic communities with food festivals (Italians, Irish, Polish). South side was mostly Italian -- oh and Natili's restaurant & Serventi's
Close enough to Pittsburgh if you wanted the "big city" experience, Monroeville for the Mall. Nature lovers had plenty of places close for fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. - McConnell's Mills (covered bridge), Moraine State Park (lake - boating, swimming, etc.).
Wonderful place to grow up!!!!
Dammit, now I'm homesick!
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and.......mosquitoes.
We only get the horse flies when the wind blows them across the bay on east winds.
mamatutu
mama to two
Born in Grove City, grew up in Butler, spent tons of time with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins in Slippery Rock & Harrisville.
Both my neice and nephew just grad from Grove City College in May! One of my brothers and fam have lived in Pittsburg (Lower Burrell/Kensington) for last 20 years. My brother is a part time prof at Slippery Rock U; he used to work for NASA. It is funny how people can have just even a small connection with another person. What is that called? Six degrees of separation?
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Paint Branch HS.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Born in Grove City, grew up in Butler, spent tons of time with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins in Slippery Rock & Harrisville.
Proud Clarion University of PA grad (it was Clarion State College back then).
Butler, PA, pop at that time (60's & 70's) was somewhere around 25,000. Major industry was 2 steel mills. One huge high school (my grad class was 920 people). Two public swimming pools -- we'd walk across town to get to one of them in the summer. Wonderful downtown - Woolworth's, Allen's Toy Store, Cummings Candy Shop (real honest-to-God soda fountain, still there -- made the best cherry cokes!). Wonderful parades down Main Street for Memorial Day and the Friday after Thanksgiving. Wonderful ethnic communities with food festivals (Italians, Irish, Polish). South side was mostly Italian -- oh and Natili's restaurant & Serventi's
Close enough to Pittsburgh if you wanted the "big city" experience, Monroeville for the Mall. Nature lovers had plenty of places close for fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. - McConnell's Mills (covered bridge), Moraine State Park (lake - boating, swimming, etc.).
Wonderful place to grow up!!!!
Dammit, now I'm homesick!
VisitButlerCounty.com | Visit Butler County Pennsylvania
I also graduated Clarion University, but in 2002... Got my alumnus directory and looked up Dameron MD and was surprised to find another alum from there in our very neighborhood.
If you haven't been back to the campus Apple Fest and homecoming are right around the corner... It's grown considerably since I graduated new family housing/apartments, new math and science wing, new bell tower.....
TPD
the poor dad
Another Scotlander here! Grew up in the tobacco fields in the summer time and stripping houses in the winter time. Mom worked at the Scotland Post Office. Buzzy's was the place we would stop on the way home from church on Saturday night to drop off the empty Pepsi bottles and pick up some new ones. If we were lucky, we would stop at CDs for ice cream - get there near closing and the owner would give us what he cleaned out of the machines. We always laughed when at least once a month during the summer, we would spot a little black kid running away from camp, Camp Brown, and headed back home to DC on foot because he was homesick. The creek was our back yard, and our excitement was a trip to the Hub for a new pair of corduroy Levis. The dinner bell was our clue that it was time to come home - no cell phone or text. And there was always a minibike, go-cart or motorcycle on the farm that would scratch us up and keep us in check! Times in Scotland really haven't changed as drastically as other places - tobacco replaced by corn, the post office is closed, no more return of Pepsi bottles, and the black kids at the camp have been replaced by minorities....
bcp
In My Opinion
Laurel Maryland.
there was nothing along 198 at the time except a cow farm. When we moved in the roads in Maryland city were still dirt roads, to get to laurel you had to go down 198, a two lane road, then across a wooden bridge (one lane)
we spent most of our childhood riding bikes between Maryland city and the laurel shopping center or playing along the Patuxent river.
One gas station in town, Kings Mobile station. First grade was in trailers in Ft Mead until the Maryland city elementary school was built. Main street in Laurel was still the heart of town and most of the buildings were left over from the 1800s.
Its different now.
there was nothing along 198 at the time except a cow farm. When we moved in the roads in Maryland city were still dirt roads, to get to laurel you had to go down 198, a two lane road, then across a wooden bridge (one lane)
we spent most of our childhood riding bikes between Maryland city and the laurel shopping center or playing along the Patuxent river.
One gas station in town, Kings Mobile station. First grade was in trailers in Ft Mead until the Maryland city elementary school was built. Main street in Laurel was still the heart of town and most of the buildings were left over from the 1800s.
Its different now.
One of the best since I have been a member. Love reading about everyone's origin and memories. Once a history buff, always a history buff. 
Wenchy
Hot Flash
Heard of it. What year were you?
BadGirl
I am so very blessed
I remember him.
TPD
the poor dad
Oh my gosh yes! One of the most honest mechanics around.
BadGirl
I am so very blessed
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Gemmi
Guest
Lexington Park, MD....I remember when Great Mills Road (RT. 246) was 2 lanes. The Galley restaurant was the place to get an awesome hamburger sub. As kids, we loved to go to the drive-in on Rt. 235 and spend all day fishing under the bridge at St. George's Island. A trip to the 7-11 for a Slurpee was a welcome treat. I remember picking wild strawberries in the ball field near our house and watching ball games there. In the summer when school was out we would walk to the library and spend all day there and check out armfuls of books. I also remember when all the growth began and our small town turned into LP City. To be young again...
TPD
the poor dad
Did he deal in furs?
edinsomd
New Member
As a Navy brat I was born in North Carolina and raised in every Naval Air Station from Jacksonville FLA to Brunswick ME including NAS Pax River. Joined the Navy to see the world- it's mostly ocean. Returned here in 1993 and never left. Meaning I've lived here far longer than any other place I've been. Y'all still talk funny. 