Whitehall Theater
4150 Brownsville Road,
Brentwood,
PA
15227
4150 Brownsville Road,
Brentwood,
PA
15227
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The Whitehall Theater opened November 1, 1940 as part of the Whitehall Shopping Center. The theater sat in the middle of the small Whitehall Shopping Center and resembled a cream colored castle, with a terra cotta facade and two huge towers on each side which had illuminated lanterns on top.
The Whitehall Theater basically showed second run movies as well as re-issued Disney classics.
Originally a single screen theater, the Whitehall Theater opened a second screen theater before closing in 1999.
The theater was closed along with the shopping center to make way for a new shopping plaza (Brentwood Towne Centre.)
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Brentwood is a suburb of Pittsburgh.
I don’t believe I was ever here. Wasn’t this theatre in Whitehall and not Brentwood?
The theater was located in the Whitehall Shopping Center, which was in Brentwood. The SC was razed to makeway for a Giant Eagle and the Brentwood Town Centre SC.
I miss the theater I went there as a kid for a few movies. I remember the mural on the wall that had imaged of famous past movies. I still remember the Green runway lights that went down the aisle. I do remember that It was run by Carmike cinemas.
Pic from May 1979:
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The Whitehall Theatre was designed by architect Victor A. Rigaumont. Photos of the Art Moderne house appeared in Boxoffice Magazine, February 27, 1943.
Opening night feature on October 31, 1940: “No Time For Comedy”, starring James Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Final day features on July 1, 1999: “Analyze This”, “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Doug’s 1st Movie”
I grew up in Whitehall and went to this theatre often. This was one of the trio of theatres on Brownsville Road. The others being the Melrose and the Mount Oliver. When this theatre would get really crowded, I remember cars parking in the middle of the front parking lot, in addition to the regular side spaces. Later, they must of outlawed this because it would have made it tough for emergency vehicles to get through. This was a great neighborhood theatre. In the 1980’s, they use to have a once a month free movie that was sponcered by the merchants in the shopping center. The hope was you would go to the movie and return the favor by shopping at one or more of the stores there. While the Whitehall was part of the “Brentwood Whitehall Shopping Center”, it actually was located in Brentwood.
Here’s a 1942 trade article describing the innovative shopping and entertainment center: boxofficemagazine
Tinseltoes: Nice article on the old Whitehall Theatre. I lived in the area from 1967 to 1991, but I don’t remember the bowling alley. Where was it located?