For a few minutes every Tuesday in the summer of 1970, the children of Westwood Manor would sit down in front of Mrs. Zinn and a story book for a short moment of quiet li...
A man from the Philippines visited the National Storage Company near Boyers in August 1970 to learn about record storage management for the Philippines Records Office.
M...
The Penn Valley swim team defeated Saxonburg in its last meet of the season with a score of 135-42 on Aug. 3, 1970, finishing the year with a record of seven wins and two...
A small flash, a deafening bang, and when the thick brown smoke cleared all that remained of the former Foxburg bridge was a stone pier and a few mangled trusses poking u...
Theresa Bain lived four houses away from the Mercer Road Volunteer Fire Department when she joined the department in 1969, which gave her quick access to the 750-gallon p...
The General State Authority was planning six building projects for Butler County in July 1970, including a new western area warehouse for state police and a student cente...
Many of the classic cars of today were just cars in the 1970s, so back then, many of the vehicles populating antique car shows dated back to the 1920s and 1930s.
The Butl...
About 2,500 workers of the United Steelworkers Local 1415 began a strike on June 15, 1970, when Pullman-Standard moved the day it issued paychecks to its workers from Thu...
A storm blew through Butler County on June 18, 1970, causing extensive damage throughout the northern part of the county, especially in the Chicora area.
High-velocity wi...
Twins Rich and Ron Saul were preparing to enter the professional football league in June 1970, but not before making a visit to their high school alma mater.
Rich Saul wa...
