Eastland Mall Theatre
833 East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
833 East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
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Neither links work.
Old William Penn,
You don’t need to “cut and paste” the link. Just go to www.benderson.com, click on “portfolio” and follow the instructions to get to the Eastland.
There is a great aerial photo of the mall and the cinema is visible in the upper left of the mall (as indicated by the yellow line).
According to a web search, the entire complex is being shopped as a new office complex. You need to cut and paste this as one URL line to view:
http://www.benderson.com/html/portfolio/brochures
/Pennsylvania%20FLYERS/Eastland%20Centre%20PA_1.pdf
Rick, Bart
There are a couple of good links on the www.deadmalls.com site. These are to newspaper articles. They should answer many of your questions about the Eastland Mall.
The Jerry Lewis Cinema chain was a good idea that just never succeeded. You can read about it in the CINEMA TREASURES book. It’s a very worthwhile book.
I believe they want to transform the old mall into a hospital (that’s one rumor). I believe the theater is still there, but I haven’t been up that way since summer. I’ll have to go up and check to see.
I remember going there once on a rainy weeknight in about 1973-74. I believe at that time they were branded as a “Jerry Lewis cinema” but don’t hold me to it. It was a pretty bleak theatre as I remember, but then again the Eastland Mall was also pretty bleak. The mall was originally an open air shopping center that was enclosed after a fire in 1972-73? The three story Gimbels was the only thing worth going to, but by then the Monroeville Mall had been open for about 3 years and was much bigger and newer.
The whole complex is essentially abandoned and should be torn down.
Rick,
Wow, what a mess! It looks like the owners just walked away from the theatre! I’m really surprised that the local delinquents haven’t broken in en masse to purloin some souvineers! This reminds me of photos I’ve seen of the Dixie Square Mall on such sites as www.deadmalls.com I’ve always been fascinated by pictures of ruins.
I found the following link of what Eastland looks like now on the inside…..
http://www.pitt.edu/~jjw22/theatre.html
I went there as a kid many times…could walk to it. I think it opened after the Mall itself. I remember seeing “The Blob” and Ali Macgraw in Goodbye Columbus in possibly 1969 but I do remeber them holding on stage dance contest between Sat matinee showings…so probably mid 60’s.