[Old School Hound]

Silas Butner(everyone called him "Sy") was one of just a couple of black men that you saw in Corbin when I was a kid. Sy was a bellman at the Wilbur Hotel on the eaast side of town. The Wilbur was across the street from where the Corbin Public Library is today. I remember asking my dad to take me over to the Wilbur so I could see Sy. He was such a kind man. He would always wave to passers by and flash a big smile. Sy was very popular with townsfolk, especially the kids, who loved going by the Wilbur just to get a big wave and smile from Sy. I remember the Wilbur being a beautiful, opulent hotel inside. Such a shame they couldn't have preserved that piece of Corbin history. Typical Terrible thinking from Corbin "leaders."  Makes me want to vomit.  Now there's a medical supply store and parking lot where the winderful Wilbur once stood. Gd shame.

Btw, my buddy, Sy Butner , had a very unhappy ending. In January of 1971,  62 year-old Sy was murdered by infamous serial killer, Donald Harvey, at Marymount Hospital in London, where Harvey was working as an orderly at the time. It is thought that Harvey either suffocated Sy with a pillow or killed him by using a faulty oxygen valve.


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The old Wilbur Hotel :


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