Greater Pittsburgh Drive-In

500 Lincoln Highway,
North Versailles, PA 15137

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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 Pittsburgh stood.

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Paul Fortini
Paul Fortini on April 9, 2007 at 3:36 am

Wasn’t the ill-fated Loews 20 North Versailles theatre on or near this site?

Sabulodes
Sabulodes on May 10, 2007 at 3:06 am

The Loews was close by, but not on the site. I think.

SusanD
SusanD on November 14, 2007 at 12:52 pm

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.

ectoace
ectoace on April 13, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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.

edblank
edblank on May 20, 2008 at 12:49 pm

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

lostmemory
lostmemory on November 16, 2008 at 5:42 pm

A 1995 photo can be seen here. Click on the photo to expand it.

rivest266
rivest266 on March 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Found the grand opening ad at View link

edblank
edblank on March 26, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Renewing link.

Paul Fortini
Paul Fortini on May 25, 2010 at 5:25 pm

Sucks this place closed.

My then-girlfriend and I saw “Basic Instinct”, “Sister Act” & “Jurrasic Park” here.

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