Cheswick Theatre

Pittsburgh, PA

1500 Pittsburgh Street

, Pittsburgh, PA 15024 United States

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Status:	Closed
Screens:	Multiplex (6 Screen)
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	722
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

Opened as a single screen, 722 seat theatre in 1948. In 1966 a second screen was added and it became the first twinned theater in the city of Pittsburgh. In 1976 two more screens were added in a separate building across the street. In 1998 the original theater was split into three screens and stadium seating was added.

It currently exists as a fourplex with stadium seating and the twin (across the street) with traditional seating which was later closed and converted into a hardware store. The remaining screens in the original building played first-run films and the occasional art film. It was closed on November 5, 2009.

Contributed by Rob Stanek

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Sign caught fire on Christmas night.

posted by Lost Memory on Feb 1, 2008 at 1:32pm

After growing to six screens - four stadium auditoriums in the original 1948 structure and two on the opposite side of Pittsburgh Street, the two that were off by themselves closed a year or more ago.

Although it outlasted the nearby six-screen Harmar indoor, the Cheswick faces competition now from the still-newish Cinemark 18 Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills or whatever the unwieldy correct name is.

posted by Ed Blank on Jun 6, 2008 at 7:00pm

I've been here a couple of times. It's kind of a piecemeal theatre in that the screens were added over the years. But it's kinda nice to see a flick here.

posted by Susan The Bass Player on Jul 16, 2008 at 9:11am

This became a bargain house for two months in October and November of 2007 before abruptly returning to first-run films in December.

posted by 71dude on Jul 18, 2008 at 9:05pm

Anyone know how business is here?

posted by 71dude on Dec 31, 2008 at 9:01am

The November 5, 1949, issue of Boxoffice magazine devoted a page to the Cheswick Theatre. Owner-operator Joseph F. Mulone had done most of the labor of building the original Cheswick Theatre himself, because his financial backer had pulled out of the deal after construction had begun. It took Mulone three years of work to complete this fairly large house, which opened with 722 seats.

posted by Joe Vogel on Mar 17, 2009 at 7:49pm

Renewing link.

posted by Ed Blank on Mar 26, 2009 at 1:08pm

The closed theater (Allegheny River side) is being converted into an Ace Hardware Store:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_617054.html

posted by 71dude on Apr 22, 2009 at 8:09pm

It's a shame this place closed. Pittsburgh is losing its independent, locally-owned cinemas.

posted by Susan The Bass Player on Nov 10, 2009 at 6:32am

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