And here’s 1981 – the last year I kept records for…
Fulton I
01/01/81 Any Which Way You Can
01/14/81 Scanners
02/04/81 Fort Apache – The Bronx
02/25/81 Maniac
03/11/81 The Fun House
03/25/81 Thief
04/01/81 Fear No Evil
04/08/81 Nighthawks
04/29/81 Friday the 13th II
05/20/81 The Legend of the Lone Ranger
06/03/81 The House by the Lake/The House That Dripped Blood/Last House on the Left
06/10/81 Clash of the Titans
06/24/81 For Your Eyes Only
07/15/81 Escape from New York
07/29/81 Blow Out
08/12/81 Deadly Blessing
08/19/81 Comin' at Ya in 3-D
09/16/81 Snake Fist Fighter
09/23/81 Mommie Dearest
10/21/81 The Boogens
10/28/81 Halloween II
11/18/81 Nightmare
12/02/81 Demonoid
12/16/81 Sharky’s Machine
Fulton II
01/01/81 Flash Gordon
01/14/81 Any Which Way You Can
02/04/81 Scanners
02/11/81 My Bloody Valentine
02/25/81 Fort Apache – The Bronx
03/25/81 Fear No Evil
04/01/81 Thief
04/15/81 Sphinx
04/22/81 Galaxina
04/29/81 DARK – REMODELING
05/13/81 Hardly Working
05/20/81 Alligator
05/27/81 Girls USA
06/03/81 Smokey Bites the Dust
06/10/81 On the Right track
06/17/81 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
06/24/81 Clash of the Titans
07/08/81 Escape from New York
07/15/81 For Your Eyes Only
07/22/81 Blow Out
07/29/81 Victory
08/12/81 Blow Out
08/19/81 Deadly Blessing
09/02/81 Under the Rainbow
09/02/81 Night School
09/23/81 Kill and Kill Again
09/30/81 Friday the 13th I/Friday the 13th II
10/07/81 Final Exam
10/14/81 The Boogens
10/21/81 Mommie Dearest
10/28/81 The Boogens
11/04/81 Carbon Copy
11/11/81 Prince of the City
11/18/81 Halloween II
11/25/81 Eye of the Dragon/Jaws of the Dragon
12/02/81 Nightmare
12/09/81 Time Bandits
12/23/81 Body Heat
In all, I can now remember why I did NOT patronize the Fulton much that year – mostly low grade horror flix. The only decent films to play there all year were “Thief,” “For Your Eyes Only,” and “Prince of the City,” which was moved over from a two-week engagement at the Warner, and I must confess the cinematography & score sort of brightened up the average cop story that was “Sharky’s Machine.”
In a few years there would be no first-run theaters downtown.
1980 for the Fulton I & II is a real mess…lots of switching back and forth, so here goes.
Fulton I
01/01/80 Star Trek – The Motion Picture
01/30/80 American Gigolo
03/05/80 Windows
03/12/80 And justice for All/The China Syndrome
03/19/80 Windows
03/26/80 Little Darlings
04/30/80 The Return of the Tiger
05/07/80 The Nude Bomb
05/21/80 Mad Max
05/28/80 A Force of One
06/04/80 Tom Horn
06/11/80 The Shining
07/16/80 Honeysuckle Rose
07/30/80 Dressed to Kill
08/13/80 Prom Night
08/20/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/03/80 The Octagon
09/17/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/24/80 The Big Brawl
10/01/80 Terror Train
10/22/80 Motel Hell
11/05/80 The Awakening
11/12/80 The Exterminator
11/26/80 The Last Days of Bruce Lee
12/10/80 Flash Gordon
12/24/80 Any Which Way But Up
Fulton II
01/01/80 Roller Boogie
01/30/80 The Prize Fighter
02/06/80 Guyana: Cult of the Damned
02/13/80 Penitentiary
03/05/80 The Godsend
03/12/80 Windows
03/19/80 Little Darlings
03/26/80 When Time Ran Out
04/09/80 Humanoids from the Deep
04/16/80 ffolkes
04/30/80 Love at First Bite
05/07/80 The Return of the Tiger
05/21/80 The Nude Bomb
05/28/80 Mad Max
06/04/80 A Force of One
06/18/80 Don’t Answer the Phone
06/25/80 The Silent Scream
07/09/80 Zombie
07/23/80 Dressed to Kill
07/30/80 The Final Countdown
08/06/80 Prom Night
08/13/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
08/20/80 The Children
08/27/80 The Octagon
09/03/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/17/80 The Big Brawl
09/24/80 Boogey Man
10/01/80 The Big Brawl
10/08/80 Caligula
10/29/80 The Awakening
11/05/80 The Exterminator
11/12/80 Borderline
11/19/80 Mother’s Day
11/26/80 Mother’s Day/The Awakening
12/03/80 Flash Gordon
12/10/80 The Last Days of Bruce Lee
12/17/80 Any Which Way You Can
12/24/80 Flash Gordon
I used the “Downtown Theaters” listing in Friday and Saturday editions of The Pittsburgh Press for each week. Whatever was listed first I considered to be Fulton I and what title was second was Fulton II. Unfortunately, I’m not 100% sure that what was printed was exactly accurate as witness the shifting back and forth of “Smokey & the Bandit II,” “Prom Night,” and others. Perhaps the management of the theater would start a new film in the bigger Fulton I auditorium and then shift it the next week for another one and if that one didn’t pan out, move the first film back into the Fulton I if it was still doing business. Your guess is as good as mine. Ed???
Fulton I
01/01/79 Superman – The Movie
02/14/79 The Warriors (moveover from Fulton II)
04/04/79 Ashanti
04/11/79 Hurricane
05/02/79 Psychic
05/16/79 Dawn of the Dead (moveover from Gateway)
05/23/79 Good Guys Wear Black
06/13/79 Prophecy
06/27/79 Escape from Alcatraz (moveover from Fulton II)
07/25/79 The Amityville Horrror
09/19/79 The Exorcist
10/03/79 Starting Over
11/07/79 The Onion Field
12/05/79 Star Trek-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/79 Force 10 from Navarone
01/17/79 Sasquatch
02/07/79 The Warriors
02/14/79 The Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
03/14/79 Agatha (moveover from Chatham)
03/21/79 The Real Bruce Lee
04/11/79 Ashanti (moveover from Fulton I)
05/02/79 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
05/09/79 Richard Pryor in Concert
05/30/79 Cemetery Girls
06/06/79 Walk Proud
06/13/79 When the Screaming Stops
06/20/79 Escape from Alcatraz
06/27/79 Prophecy (moveover from Fulton I)
07/11/79 Phantasm
08/01/79 The Wanderers
08/08/79 Americathon
08/15/79 Star Wars
09/12/79 City on Fire
09/19/79 Wanda Nevada
09/26/79 The Hitter
10/03/79 The Exorcist (moveover from Fulton I)
10/10/79 Another Richard Pryor (earlier concert film retitled)
10/17/79 Avalanche Express
10/31/79 When a Stranger Calls
11/07/79 Starting Over (moveover from Fulton I)
12/19/79 Roller Boogie
This is the best I can figure out – there might be some switches of films back in May, but i can’t see them switching the Chuck Norris “Good Guys Wear Black” back and forth between the two for three weeks, plus “Cemetery Girls” seems like a smaller theater horror in for a one-week quickie. Ditto “Walk Proud,” whatever that was??? I’m guessing the newspaper had an error in the listings.
PS – I’ll get these in as I can for you – I do not currently have the web at home & must do this at work & time is at a minimum right now here.
If I recall, the last night was a WDVE-sponsored showing of Three Stooges shorts. After which, the patrons totally wrecked the place.
I grew up just up the street from the drive-in, although I was not living there in 1985. As a kid, we could see the screen from our porch in the winter when there weren’t any leaves on the trees. And you could hear the sound late at night when enough people left and put the speakers back on the posts without turning down the sound.
This was back in the days of “Cleopatra” with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
As a senior in high school I remember practically freezing to death watching a double-bill of “Downhill Racer” and “Little Fauss & Big Halsy” with a high school buddy whose car had no heat over Christmas vacation.
At one point we kids from the neighborhood built a treehouse on the hill opposite the screen in the woods behind Joe George’s Mercury dealership on the otherside of Route 88. It was 40 feet up and had a great view of the screen. We thought about trying to run a wire for sound through the sewers but never was able to. The Bethel Park police later on had the Fire Department do a CONTROLLED burning due to the noisy partying and incessant underaged drinking by kids a generation or so after mine in and under the treehouse.
1978 Films at Fulton I & Fulton II (Wednesday Dates)
Fulton I
01/01/78 The Gauntlet
01/25/78 Which Way is Up?
03/01/78 High Anxiety
04/26/78 An Unmarried Woman
05/31/78 Capricorn One
06/28/78 Convoy
07/19/78 Hooper
08/23/78 Who’ll Stop the Rain?
09/13/78 The Sound of Music
09/27/78 Death on the Nile
11/08/78 Magic
12/13/78 Superman-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/78 Liz (X)
01/25/78 The Gauntlet (moveover)
03/01/78 Which Way is Up? (moveover)
04/12/78 The Medusa Touch
04/26/78 FM
05/10/78 The Evil
05/17/78 The French Quarter
05/24/78 The Tempter
05/31/78 An Unmarried Woman (moveover)
06/07/78 Alice, Sweet Alice
06/14/78 The End (moveover from Gateway)
06/28/78 The Great Smokey Roadblock
07/05/78 Virgin Dreams
07/12/78 The Swarm
07/26/78 Madame Bouquet (X)
08/02/78 Corvette Summer
08/09/78 Harper Valley PTA
08/23/78 The Fruit is Ripe
08/30/78 Duchess & Dirtwater Fox/Mother, Jugs, and Speed
09/06/78 The Hills Have Eyes
10/04/78 National Lampoon’s Animal House (moveover from Fiesta)
12/13/78 Magic (moveover)
12/20/78 Force 10 from Navarone
1978 Films at Fulton I & Fulton II (Wednesday Dates)
Fulton I
01/01/78 The Gauntlet
01/25/78 Which Way is Up?
03/01/78 High Anxiety
04/26/78 An Unmarried Woman
05/31/78 Capricorn One
06/28/78 Convoy
07/19/78 Hooper
08/23/78 Who’ll Stop the Rain?
09/13/78 The Sound of Music
09/27/78 Death on the Nile
11/08/78 Magic
12/13/78 Superman-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/78 Liz (X)
01/25/78 The Gauntlet (moveover)
03/01/78 Which Way is Up? (moveover)
04/12/78 The Medusa Touch
04/26/78 FM
05/10/78 The Evil
05/17/78 The French Quarter
05/24/78 The Tempter
05/31/78 An Unmarried Woman (moveover)
06/07/78 Alice, Sweet Alice
06/14/78 The End (moveover from Gateway)
06/28/78 The Great Smokey Roadblock
07/05/78 Virgin Dreams
07/12/78 The Swarm
07/26/78 Madame Bouquet (X)
08/02/78 Corvette Summer
08/09/78 Harper Valley PTA
08/23/78 The Fruit is Ripe
08/30/78 Duchess & Dirtwater Fox/Mother, Jugs, and Speed
09/06/78 The Hills Have Eyes
10/04/78 National Lampoon’s Animal House (moveover from Fiesta)
12/13/78 Magic (moveover)
12/20/78 Force 10 from Navarone
“Thief”, with James Caan, Tuesday Weld and Robert Prosky, opened the week of March 25, 1981 at the Fulton I, where it played one week. It then moved over to the Fulton II beginning the week of April 1, 1981 where it played another two weeks.
(I still list weeks as beginning with a Wednesday date as was done in the 60s & early 70s, although the actual opening date may have been March 27, 1981 – a Friday, such as they do now.)
What I meant was that in the Cinemette or Cinemagic or Carmike listing of “Downtown Theaters” they would just put Fulton I & II and list two film titles and you really aren’t sure which film was in which auditorium.
Yes, I have information through December 1981. However, in later years they were just called Fulton I and Fulton II. One can assume that Fulton I was probably the larger auditorium, but, like the twin Bank Cinemas, and especially the Manor in Squirrel Hill which became a quad, it’s not always possible to be totally certain of which auditorium a film played in each week just from looking at newspaper listings.
At least the Hollywood got the extensive refurbishing that it did courtesy of the Bradley Home. Perhaps it will attract another buyer at some point in the future. But Dormont needs to get the Presbyterian Church across the street to sell the large parking lot it has to the borough and build a parking garage on that site. That would solve all of the borough’s retail shops' parking problems.
I enjoyed each and every visit that I made to the Hollywood during its short-lived “reincarnation.”
The films playing at the South Park Drive-In on the date of the aerial photo above were “One Million Years, B.C.” with Raquel Welch and “The Quiller Memorandum” with George Segal.
These twin theaters were opened around the end of 1971 or beginning of 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, who were residents of Upper St. Clair. The first film i saw there was the reissue of “My Fair Lady” in February or March of 1972, although after that I saw almost everything that played there. I worked there for them as an usher, janitor and marquee changer during the fall of 1972 through May of 1973. Mr. Jones was quite a colorful character. At one point, he sued the entire 20th Century Fox board of directors because he was not getting access to first run films…this included Princess Grace of Monaco who was on the board at the time. He later gave up running them himself and hired Dolly Miller, who had worked for the Stern Brothers Associated Theatres as his manager. He later sold them to Mike Cardone, who had left Cinemette to operate his own chain of neighborhood houses, including he Bethel Cinemas, the South Hills in Dormont, the Whitehall, and the Plaza in Bloomfield.
Today the building contains a heating and air conditioning company on one side and a women’s beauty salon on the other.
One of the great things about 2007 is the many visits that I have made to the Hollywood this year. Since most of the movies they make today do not provide me with a sense of urgency to rush out and see them the first week, I can wait for them until they show here. The prices are great and so are the new seats. I love sitting in the balcony again.
I believe that RKO operated the Keith’s Theater until the late 1960s when it was merged with the Stanley-Warner circuit, whose theaters included the Avalon, Uptown, and Warner, among others.
UA 70
10/01/69 3 into 2 Won’t Go
10/08/69 The Libertine
10/29/69 The Sterile Cuckoo
12/17/69 Viva, Max!
02/25/70 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
05/13/70 Fellini’s Satyricon
08/19/70 The Passion of Anna/Persona
09/09/70 Barefoot in the Park/The Odd Couple
09/16/70 Hotel
10/07/70 Joe
07/21/71 Summer of ‘42
01/26/72 The Last Picture Show
06/21/72 Cisco Pike
07/05/72 Red Sun
07/19/72 Little Big Man/A Man Called Horse
07/26/72 The Other
09/20/72 Marjoe
10/25/72 Bad Company
11/01/72 A Separate Peace
12/20/72 The King of Marvin Gardens
01/10/73 They Only Kill Their Masters
01/31/73 Sounder
05/23/73 Slither
06/27/73 Scarecrow
09/19/73 Visions of Eight
10/03/73 Walking Tall
10/24/73 Jimi Hendrix
12/05/73 The Betty Boop Scandals of 1974
12/19/73 Ash Wednesday
01/30/74 The Seven Ups
02/20/74 Sounder
02/27/74 A Touch of Class
03/27/74 The Three Musketeers
10/02/74 Conrack
11/06/74 The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
11/20/74 King of Hearts
12/18/74 The Godfather, Part II
02/12/75 Murder on the Orient Express
06/25/75 The French Connection 2
08/20/75 At Long Last Love
09/17/75 The Happy Hooker
10/01/75 Fantastic Planet/Dark Star
10/08/75 (Ali-Frazier Fight)
10/15/75 Coonskin
10/22/75 Camelot
11/12/75 The Human Factor
11/26/75 Capone
12/17/75 The Sunshine Boys
03/24/76 I Will, I Will…For Now
04/28/76 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
05/26/76 The Blue Bird
06/30/76 Silent Movie
11/24/76 Murder by Death/Murder on the Orient Express
12/22/76 Silver Streak
And here’s 1981 – the last year I kept records for…
Fulton I
01/01/81 Any Which Way You Can
01/14/81 Scanners
02/04/81 Fort Apache – The Bronx
02/25/81 Maniac
03/11/81 The Fun House
03/25/81 Thief
04/01/81 Fear No Evil
04/08/81 Nighthawks
04/29/81 Friday the 13th II
05/20/81 The Legend of the Lone Ranger
06/03/81 The House by the Lake/The House That Dripped Blood/Last House on the Left
06/10/81 Clash of the Titans
06/24/81 For Your Eyes Only
07/15/81 Escape from New York
07/29/81 Blow Out
08/12/81 Deadly Blessing
08/19/81 Comin' at Ya in 3-D
09/16/81 Snake Fist Fighter
09/23/81 Mommie Dearest
10/21/81 The Boogens
10/28/81 Halloween II
11/18/81 Nightmare
12/02/81 Demonoid
12/16/81 Sharky’s Machine
Fulton II
01/01/81 Flash Gordon
01/14/81 Any Which Way You Can
02/04/81 Scanners
02/11/81 My Bloody Valentine
02/25/81 Fort Apache – The Bronx
03/25/81 Fear No Evil
04/01/81 Thief
04/15/81 Sphinx
04/22/81 Galaxina
04/29/81 DARK – REMODELING
05/13/81 Hardly Working
05/20/81 Alligator
05/27/81 Girls USA
06/03/81 Smokey Bites the Dust
06/10/81 On the Right track
06/17/81 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
06/24/81 Clash of the Titans
07/08/81 Escape from New York
07/15/81 For Your Eyes Only
07/22/81 Blow Out
07/29/81 Victory
08/12/81 Blow Out
08/19/81 Deadly Blessing
09/02/81 Under the Rainbow
09/02/81 Night School
09/23/81 Kill and Kill Again
09/30/81 Friday the 13th I/Friday the 13th II
10/07/81 Final Exam
10/14/81 The Boogens
10/21/81 Mommie Dearest
10/28/81 The Boogens
11/04/81 Carbon Copy
11/11/81 Prince of the City
11/18/81 Halloween II
11/25/81 Eye of the Dragon/Jaws of the Dragon
12/02/81 Nightmare
12/09/81 Time Bandits
12/23/81 Body Heat
In all, I can now remember why I did NOT patronize the Fulton much that year – mostly low grade horror flix. The only decent films to play there all year were “Thief,” “For Your Eyes Only,” and “Prince of the City,” which was moved over from a two-week engagement at the Warner, and I must confess the cinematography & score sort of brightened up the average cop story that was “Sharky’s Machine.”
In a few years there would be no first-run theaters downtown.
Thanks, Ed, for the excellent input, as always. I’ll still put 1981 in when I can, it’ll give people some idea of what was there.
1980 for the Fulton I & II is a real mess…lots of switching back and forth, so here goes.
Fulton I
01/01/80 Star Trek – The Motion Picture
01/30/80 American Gigolo
03/05/80 Windows
03/12/80 And justice for All/The China Syndrome
03/19/80 Windows
03/26/80 Little Darlings
04/30/80 The Return of the Tiger
05/07/80 The Nude Bomb
05/21/80 Mad Max
05/28/80 A Force of One
06/04/80 Tom Horn
06/11/80 The Shining
07/16/80 Honeysuckle Rose
07/30/80 Dressed to Kill
08/13/80 Prom Night
08/20/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/03/80 The Octagon
09/17/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/24/80 The Big Brawl
10/01/80 Terror Train
10/22/80 Motel Hell
11/05/80 The Awakening
11/12/80 The Exterminator
11/26/80 The Last Days of Bruce Lee
12/10/80 Flash Gordon
12/24/80 Any Which Way But Up
Fulton II
01/01/80 Roller Boogie
01/30/80 The Prize Fighter
02/06/80 Guyana: Cult of the Damned
02/13/80 Penitentiary
03/05/80 The Godsend
03/12/80 Windows
03/19/80 Little Darlings
03/26/80 When Time Ran Out
04/09/80 Humanoids from the Deep
04/16/80 ffolkes
04/30/80 Love at First Bite
05/07/80 The Return of the Tiger
05/21/80 The Nude Bomb
05/28/80 Mad Max
06/04/80 A Force of One
06/18/80 Don’t Answer the Phone
06/25/80 The Silent Scream
07/09/80 Zombie
07/23/80 Dressed to Kill
07/30/80 The Final Countdown
08/06/80 Prom Night
08/13/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
08/20/80 The Children
08/27/80 The Octagon
09/03/80 Smokey and the Bandit II
09/17/80 The Big Brawl
09/24/80 Boogey Man
10/01/80 The Big Brawl
10/08/80 Caligula
10/29/80 The Awakening
11/05/80 The Exterminator
11/12/80 Borderline
11/19/80 Mother’s Day
11/26/80 Mother’s Day/The Awakening
12/03/80 Flash Gordon
12/10/80 The Last Days of Bruce Lee
12/17/80 Any Which Way You Can
12/24/80 Flash Gordon
I used the “Downtown Theaters” listing in Friday and Saturday editions of The Pittsburgh Press for each week. Whatever was listed first I considered to be Fulton I and what title was second was Fulton II. Unfortunately, I’m not 100% sure that what was printed was exactly accurate as witness the shifting back and forth of “Smokey & the Bandit II,” “Prom Night,” and others. Perhaps the management of the theater would start a new film in the bigger Fulton I auditorium and then shift it the next week for another one and if that one didn’t pan out, move the first film back into the Fulton I if it was still doing business. Your guess is as good as mine. Ed???
Ditto on the time machine idea!
Fulton I
01/01/79 Superman – The Movie
02/14/79 The Warriors (moveover from Fulton II)
04/04/79 Ashanti
04/11/79 Hurricane
05/02/79 Psychic
05/16/79 Dawn of the Dead (moveover from Gateway)
05/23/79 Good Guys Wear Black
06/13/79 Prophecy
06/27/79 Escape from Alcatraz (moveover from Fulton II)
07/25/79 The Amityville Horrror
09/19/79 The Exorcist
10/03/79 Starting Over
11/07/79 The Onion Field
12/05/79 Star Trek-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/79 Force 10 from Navarone
01/17/79 Sasquatch
02/07/79 The Warriors
02/14/79 The Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
03/14/79 Agatha (moveover from Chatham)
03/21/79 The Real Bruce Lee
04/11/79 Ashanti (moveover from Fulton I)
05/02/79 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
05/09/79 Richard Pryor in Concert
05/30/79 Cemetery Girls
06/06/79 Walk Proud
06/13/79 When the Screaming Stops
06/20/79 Escape from Alcatraz
06/27/79 Prophecy (moveover from Fulton I)
07/11/79 Phantasm
08/01/79 The Wanderers
08/08/79 Americathon
08/15/79 Star Wars
09/12/79 City on Fire
09/19/79 Wanda Nevada
09/26/79 The Hitter
10/03/79 The Exorcist (moveover from Fulton I)
10/10/79 Another Richard Pryor (earlier concert film retitled)
10/17/79 Avalanche Express
10/31/79 When a Stranger Calls
11/07/79 Starting Over (moveover from Fulton I)
12/19/79 Roller Boogie
This is the best I can figure out – there might be some switches of films back in May, but i can’t see them switching the Chuck Norris “Good Guys Wear Black” back and forth between the two for three weeks, plus “Cemetery Girls” seems like a smaller theater horror in for a one-week quickie. Ditto “Walk Proud,” whatever that was??? I’m guessing the newspaper had an error in the listings.
PS – I’ll get these in as I can for you – I do not currently have the web at home & must do this at work & time is at a minimum right now here.
Yes, it was!
If I recall, the last night was a WDVE-sponsored showing of Three Stooges shorts. After which, the patrons totally wrecked the place.
I grew up just up the street from the drive-in, although I was not living there in 1985. As a kid, we could see the screen from our porch in the winter when there weren’t any leaves on the trees. And you could hear the sound late at night when enough people left and put the speakers back on the posts without turning down the sound.
This was back in the days of “Cleopatra” with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
As a senior in high school I remember practically freezing to death watching a double-bill of “Downhill Racer” and “Little Fauss & Big Halsy” with a high school buddy whose car had no heat over Christmas vacation.
At one point we kids from the neighborhood built a treehouse on the hill opposite the screen in the woods behind Joe George’s Mercury dealership on the otherside of Route 88. It was 40 feet up and had a great view of the screen. We thought about trying to run a wire for sound through the sewers but never was able to. The Bethel Park police later on had the Fire Department do a CONTROLLED burning due to the noisy partying and incessant underaged drinking by kids a generation or so after mine in and under the treehouse.
1978 Films at Fulton I & Fulton II (Wednesday Dates)
Fulton I
01/01/78 The Gauntlet
01/25/78 Which Way is Up?
03/01/78 High Anxiety
04/26/78 An Unmarried Woman
05/31/78 Capricorn One
06/28/78 Convoy
07/19/78 Hooper
08/23/78 Who’ll Stop the Rain?
09/13/78 The Sound of Music
09/27/78 Death on the Nile
11/08/78 Magic
12/13/78 Superman-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/78 Liz (X)
01/25/78 The Gauntlet (moveover)
03/01/78 Which Way is Up? (moveover)
04/12/78 The Medusa Touch
04/26/78 FM
05/10/78 The Evil
05/17/78 The French Quarter
05/24/78 The Tempter
05/31/78 An Unmarried Woman (moveover)
06/07/78 Alice, Sweet Alice
06/14/78 The End (moveover from Gateway)
06/28/78 The Great Smokey Roadblock
07/05/78 Virgin Dreams
07/12/78 The Swarm
07/26/78 Madame Bouquet (X)
08/02/78 Corvette Summer
08/09/78 Harper Valley PTA
08/23/78 The Fruit is Ripe
08/30/78 Duchess & Dirtwater Fox/Mother, Jugs, and Speed
09/06/78 The Hills Have Eyes
10/04/78 National Lampoon’s Animal House (moveover from Fiesta)
12/13/78 Magic (moveover)
12/20/78 Force 10 from Navarone
1979-81 to be posted separately
1978 Films at Fulton I & Fulton II (Wednesday Dates)
Fulton I
01/01/78 The Gauntlet
01/25/78 Which Way is Up?
03/01/78 High Anxiety
04/26/78 An Unmarried Woman
05/31/78 Capricorn One
06/28/78 Convoy
07/19/78 Hooper
08/23/78 Who’ll Stop the Rain?
09/13/78 The Sound of Music
09/27/78 Death on the Nile
11/08/78 Magic
12/13/78 Superman-The Movie
Fulton II
01/01/78 Liz (X)
01/25/78 The Gauntlet (moveover)
03/01/78 Which Way is Up? (moveover)
04/12/78 The Medusa Touch
04/26/78 FM
05/10/78 The Evil
05/17/78 The French Quarter
05/24/78 The Tempter
05/31/78 An Unmarried Woman (moveover)
06/07/78 Alice, Sweet Alice
06/14/78 The End (moveover from Gateway)
06/28/78 The Great Smokey Roadblock
07/05/78 Virgin Dreams
07/12/78 The Swarm
07/26/78 Madame Bouquet (X)
08/02/78 Corvette Summer
08/09/78 Harper Valley PTA
08/23/78 The Fruit is Ripe
08/30/78 Duchess & Dirtwater Fox/Mother, Jugs, and Speed
09/06/78 The Hills Have Eyes
10/04/78 National Lampoon’s Animal House (moveover from Fiesta)
12/13/78 Magic (moveover)
12/20/78 Force 10 from Navarone
1979-81 to be posted separately
“Thief”, with James Caan, Tuesday Weld and Robert Prosky, opened the week of March 25, 1981 at the Fulton I, where it played one week. It then moved over to the Fulton II beginning the week of April 1, 1981 where it played another two weeks.
(I still list weeks as beginning with a Wednesday date as was done in the 60s & early 70s, although the actual opening date may have been March 27, 1981 – a Friday, such as they do now.)
What I meant was that in the Cinemette or Cinemagic or Carmike listing of “Downtown Theaters” they would just put Fulton I & II and list two film titles and you really aren’t sure which film was in which auditorium.
But I will try to do the best I can.
Mogambo – 1966??? Is that a typo?
Yes, I have information through December 1981. However, in later years they were just called Fulton I and Fulton II. One can assume that Fulton I was probably the larger auditorium, but, like the twin Bank Cinemas, and especially the Manor in Squirrel Hill which became a quad, it’s not always possible to be totally certain of which auditorium a film played in each week just from looking at newspaper listings.
I have that info at home – will look up & let you know tomorrow
At least the Hollywood got the extensive refurbishing that it did courtesy of the Bradley Home. Perhaps it will attract another buyer at some point in the future. But Dormont needs to get the Presbyterian Church across the street to sell the large parking lot it has to the borough and build a parking garage on that site. That would solve all of the borough’s retail shops' parking problems.
I enjoyed each and every visit that I made to the Hollywood during its short-lived “reincarnation.”
The films playing at the South Park Drive-In on the date of the aerial photo above were “One Million Years, B.C.” with Raquel Welch and “The Quiller Memorandum” with George Segal.
These twin theaters were opened around the end of 1971 or beginning of 1972 by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, who were residents of Upper St. Clair. The first film i saw there was the reissue of “My Fair Lady” in February or March of 1972, although after that I saw almost everything that played there. I worked there for them as an usher, janitor and marquee changer during the fall of 1972 through May of 1973. Mr. Jones was quite a colorful character. At one point, he sued the entire 20th Century Fox board of directors because he was not getting access to first run films…this included Princess Grace of Monaco who was on the board at the time. He later gave up running them himself and hired Dolly Miller, who had worked for the Stern Brothers Associated Theatres as his manager. He later sold them to Mike Cardone, who had left Cinemette to operate his own chain of neighborhood houses, including he Bethel Cinemas, the South Hills in Dormont, the Whitehall, and the Plaza in Bloomfield.
Today the building contains a heating and air conditioning company on one side and a women’s beauty salon on the other.
One of the great things about 2007 is the many visits that I have made to the Hollywood this year. Since most of the movies they make today do not provide me with a sense of urgency to rush out and see them the first week, I can wait for them until they show here. The prices are great and so are the new seats. I love sitting in the balcony again.
I believe that RKO operated the Keith’s Theater until the late 1960s when it was merged with the Stanley-Warner circuit, whose theaters included the Avalon, Uptown, and Warner, among others.
To the best of my knowledge, “Midway” played at the Gateway Theater in downtown Pittsburgh in the summer of 1976.
to rlvjr:
Actually it was Loew’s Capitol that closed when the Embassy opened (August 1963), not the Columbia. Loew’s Columbia shuttered sometime in 1959.
No, we all sat there last night to see “Amazing Grace.”
also UA 150
03/03/71 Doctors' Wives (inadvertantly omitted)
UA 70
10/01/69 3 into 2 Won’t Go
10/08/69 The Libertine
10/29/69 The Sterile Cuckoo
12/17/69 Viva, Max!
02/25/70 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
05/13/70 Fellini’s Satyricon
08/19/70 The Passion of Anna/Persona
09/09/70 Barefoot in the Park/The Odd Couple
09/16/70 Hotel
10/07/70 Joe
07/21/71 Summer of ‘42
01/26/72 The Last Picture Show
06/21/72 Cisco Pike
07/05/72 Red Sun
07/19/72 Little Big Man/A Man Called Horse
07/26/72 The Other
09/20/72 Marjoe
10/25/72 Bad Company
11/01/72 A Separate Peace
12/20/72 The King of Marvin Gardens
01/10/73 They Only Kill Their Masters
01/31/73 Sounder
05/23/73 Slither
06/27/73 Scarecrow
09/19/73 Visions of Eight
10/03/73 Walking Tall
10/24/73 Jimi Hendrix
12/05/73 The Betty Boop Scandals of 1974
12/19/73 Ash Wednesday
01/30/74 The Seven Ups
02/20/74 Sounder
02/27/74 A Touch of Class
03/27/74 The Three Musketeers
10/02/74 Conrack
11/06/74 The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
11/20/74 King of Hearts
12/18/74 The Godfather, Part II
02/12/75 Murder on the Orient Express
06/25/75 The French Connection 2
08/20/75 At Long Last Love
09/17/75 The Happy Hooker
10/01/75 Fantastic Planet/Dark Star
10/08/75 (Ali-Frazier Fight)
10/15/75 Coonskin
10/22/75 Camelot
11/12/75 The Human Factor
11/26/75 Capone
12/17/75 The Sunshine Boys
03/24/76 I Will, I Will…For Now
04/28/76 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
05/26/76 The Blue Bird
06/30/76 Silent Movie
11/24/76 Murder by Death/Murder on the Orient Express
12/22/76 Silver Streak
Sorry, I didn’t mean to hit “Submit” twice – it was taking a long time.