Greater Pittsburgh Drive-In
500 Lincoln Highway,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
500 Lincoln Highway,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
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Located on Route 30 in the Turtle Creek district. Opened May 28, 1954 with a curved CinemaScope screen. One of several Pittsburgh area drive-ins owned by Marty Warren and family. Originally had a children’s playground. In later years, a miniature golf course was added on the hillside before the box office.
Closed at the end of the 1997 season. A Wal-Mart now occupies the site where the Greater Pittsburg Drive-In stood.
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Oh, that’s right. The Walmart is where this place stood. When we were teen-agers, my brother, who is two years older than I, used to come here with his friends. Sometimes he’d let me tag along. I’d been here with my friends too. It closed when I was 19 and I remember that this place did good business.
Does anyone out there have pics of this place? I live right down the street from where it used to be and I went there as a kid. I would love to see some pictures of it.
The Wal-Mart and its parking lot occupy much/most of the site of the old Greater Pittsburgh Drive-In. However, when the short-lived, ill-fated Loew’s North Versailles opened on property adjacent to the Wal-Mart, I asked several key people if the Loew’s parking lot, in stretching toward the Wal-Mart, did not also cover some of the land formerly occupied by the drive-in. The concensus was that it did. Those five drive-in lots occupied a fair amount of acreage up there. Sorry it’s all lost to us now. – Ed Blank
A 1995 photo can be seen here. Click on the photo to expand it.
Found the grand opening ad at View link
Renewing link.
Sucks this place closed.
My then-girlfriend and I saw “Basic Instinct”, “Sister Act” & “Jurrasic Park” here.
This was a great place to see a movie. The main screen was slightly curved for Cinemascope features. I remember being able to see this drive-in from a distance as I climbed the big hill on the Thunderbolt at Kennywood. You could see the back of screen one (the curved one) and the front of screen 2 from the top of the Thunderbolt. In later years, they had five screens. We went there the last summer they were opened (1997) to see “Air Force One”. It is sorely missed.
Added grand opening ad and 1959 and 1969 aerials. It looks they reconfigured the screens and parking.
Ed Blank,
Your comment from a few years ago about the Greater Pittsburgh Drive-In occupying some of the land that the old Loews 20 sits on makes sense.
I tried looking at a Google Map by entering the address of the drive in and the address of the Loews. Don’t use Google Maps—they would have you believe the drive-in occupied the site of the bowling alley.
I used Yahoo Maps instead and I could see tht what you said is true. Just one thing though—use zipcode 15137 for both addresses.