Fair Ground Drive-In
Brownsville Road and Greenbriar Drive,
South Park,
PA
15129
Brownsville Road and Greenbriar Drive,
South Park,
PA
15129
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Opened on 8th July 1959 with “Ask any girl” and “Night of the quarter moon.
The April 13, 1970 issue of Boxoffice noted that Fair Ground owner Gabe Rubin also owned the (ultimately short-lived) Pittsburgh Pipers of the American Basketball Association.
Final night of operation was on August 31, 1986 with “Last Resort” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2”
Address is off by about ½ mile.
Brownsville Road at Greenbriar Dr
South Park, PA 15129
The Fair Ground Drive-In Theatre’s grand opening pictures are in photos. Architect was Meyer VeShancey and built by Branna Construction. The $500,000 facility had space for 1,000 cars at opening. The theatre had 70mm capability with Bauer-NTS projectors with Ashcraft Super Cinex lamps with pole-mounted stereo speakers. The tower measured 120' wide by 75' high. “Ask Any Girl” was the first movie for the Gabriel G. Rubin-led Fair Ground D-I.
grand opening ad in photo section
Does anybody have any photos of this drive-in that they could post?
THe more I read that your BUSINESS AGENT was quite SPINELESS!!!
Yeah what a set up!!!!
Boy, Norelco you had a tough business agent. Mike Local 629.
Renewing link.
The Fairgrounds had one of the larger capacities and for years was one of the higher grossing drive-ins in Western Pennsylvania.
It was south of South Park and sat up on a hill.
On nights when the fog rolled in, it could interfere with the image reaching the unusually large outdoor screen.
This is an aerial photo taken May 26,1967. The road on the right side of the picture is Brownsville Road.
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Photo from Penn Pilot
http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/learnHow.html
I was the projectionist there for a long time, Cinnamette ran the place. The Volk family were the managers at the time I started there. they got fired, a guy Mark then took over for one year 1983, then they hired a woman named Linda in 84, my last year. Linda was my downfall. She wanted me to teach her boyfriend to run movies, I said I had to get approval from the union, and he had to go before them to get approved. So one night she asked me if I wanted a beer, I said yes, but only after the movie was over. after the movie was over and I locked the booth I got my beer. We sat by her car had a beer and left for the night. The next day the business agent called me and said I got fired for drinking on the job, the bitch really set me up good. I only hope she finally got hers.
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