MEMORY LANE: We hear today from Paul Butler on a host of recent
RTS subjects:

“I was reading Round the Square and remember a lot of the people
you wrote about in your column. Graduated from St. Bernard in 1954.
Anyway, we use to go out 219 to the right turn – can’t remember the
name now – but Ennis Hotel was out there, and we use to square
dance with Cow Girl Clara and her band. When I read about the
square dancing – we all did that at that time. Lot of us kids would
go out there on a Saturday night and had a wonderful time.

“I remember the Suppas and think they had a market, also. I
remember the one boy used to have a routine to march in front of
the Option House. … I remember DeSelle’s Candy Store but thought it
was more by the Option House.

“That was something you wrote about the Emery Hotel and the
menu. Our neighbor Frank Pazzelli used to be chef there and then
opened his own restaurant on Mechanic Street called the Hi-Hat.
That was a long time ago. We used to go for hot fudge sundaes at
Galanises and also to the drug store that was on the Square. They
used to serve ice cream in the back of the store.

“In the ally between Penney’s store and the barbershop was a
shoemaker that was in the back and it would be now the Bradford
Club. All that was torn down to make way for the bank that is now
there.

“My father was Earl Butler that use to have Butler and Zannelli
Barbershop on the corner of Chestnut Street and Main, now the
Forest Oil building.

“Our brother Jay Butler was clerk and great with the customers
in Evan’s Clothing Store. I worked at the A&P Store for 23
years on Mechanic till it was sold and now is a church. My brother
Clair was an artist and worked for Zippo Co. there for many years
’til his retirement. He still lives in the area, and I live in
Florida but like to read about the good times we had growing up in
Bradford, Pennsylvania.”

PS: The Ennis Hotel mentioned above, of course, is now known as
the Westline Inn. Hmm. (Or was that the Enis Hotel? Or the Enos
Hotel?)