Odin Drive-In
Greensburg,
PA
15601
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The Odin Drive-In opened on May 11, 1950 with a capacity of 400 cars; the opening feature was "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", starring June Haver and Mark Stevens. Located on U.S. 30 at North Greengate Road, ¼ mile west of downtown Greensburg. Owned by Bruno Ferrari, John Ridilla and John Slate.
Closed in the early-1960’s and replaced with Greensburg Plaza (now Gabriel Brothers Plaza) in 1963.
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Denny Pine
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Denny it parked 325 cars and in 1956 was owned by Hanna-Theatre Service.
IN THE ADDRESS, PLEASE CHANGE:
U.S. 30 TO LINCOLN HIGHWAY
For some reason when you go to the Map, U.S. 30 does not go to the correct corner, but Lincoln Highway goes to the site of the Drive-In.
Either address maps to the same place.
Chuck, it does NOT. Greengate Road has a jog in it at U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway. U.S. 30 puts it at Walgreens, Lincoln Highway puts it at Gabriel Brothers which is at the site of the Drive-In. Try it! I don’t understand why it Maps that way, but it works!
One of the problems with Google Mapping is that the locations are off too often. We are trying to locate them from Google Mappings and not what the actual addresses were. We are giving them addresses that were not the actual addresses but how Google locates them. We should list the actual addresses in the header and then in the comments we could put in order for Google to locate the theatre use the locattion that Google Maps gives. You have used Rivests for so many of your comments and that site is really bad on wrong cities and spellings of cities, street names and years of operations. He uses to many estimates.
PLEASE REMOVE ADDRESS.
Chuck, no question Google Mapping can be OFF.
I don’t recall that I’ve ever not used an actual address just because it didn’t work out with Google. Most often I’ll add it’s a block West or whatever. The problem is finding the actual address.
In this case we do not know and may never know the actual address. We do know the site. Seems to make sense to put that down as the address and have it correctly Map. That way, in this case when someone from Greensburg looks up this Drive-In they can see the exact spot it was at. That seems to be the most helpful.
“wrong cities, and spelling of cities, street names” a pet peeve of mine, I think you’ve got me mixed up with Mike Rogers. Sorry Mike.
“years of operation” ~ballpark numbers? but gives the readers a general idea of a theaters years of operations. Better then not having any years listed. Was it operating in 1910 or 1960?
Please don’t critize Mike Rivest too much. Let me know when your more acurate Website of over 55,000 U.S. Theaters is up so I can use it instead of Mikes. I joke.
As it stands now, this Drive-In has no address, which is not very helpful. I can not live up to your standards, so I do not dare add an address, so I leave that up to you if you so wish. Another possible address is 801 North Greengate Road, that’s the address of Gabriel Brothers.
In the instance of wrong cities, spelling of cities and street names and dates I was referring to the Rivest site. Also he may have 55,000 theatres listed but of that 55,000 he lists seperately the numerous names that a theatre may have had previously which is deceiving. When he puts an estimate for an opening or closing date and the theatre had a previous name this throws the life of the theatre all off. If you know that the theatre had an AKA then you can look on the Rivest site and see if it listed seperately and get another estimated opening date or closingi date. That is pretty much what I was saying, no reflections toward you or your comments.
I also agree with you whole heartedly on a lot of Mike Rogers comments. Like you, sorry Mike.
Approx. address for this drive-in was 801 North Greengate Road.