Greater Pittsburgh Drive-In
500 Lincoln Highway,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
500 Lincoln Highway,
North Versailles,
PA
15137
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Added grand opening ad and 1959 and 1969 aerials. It looks they reconfigured the screens and parking.
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.
Sucks this place closed.
My then-girlfriend and I saw “Basic Instinct”, “Sister Act” & “Jurrasic Park” here.
Renewing link.
Found the grand opening ad at View link
A 1995 photo can be seen here. Click on the photo to expand 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
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.
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.
The Loews was close by, but not on the site. I think.
Wasn’t the ill-fated Loews 20 North Versailles theatre on or near this site?