Cinema 22

4680 Old William Penn Highway,
Monroeville, PA 15146

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Additional Info

Previously operated by: Cinemette Corporation of America, RKO, Stanley-Warner Theatres

Functions: Retail

Styles: Colonial Revival

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Cinema 22

This was one of two theatres located on William Penn Highway (Route 22) in Monroeville. Located in the Monroe Plaza Shopping Center, it was opened December 22, 1967, by RKO Stanley - Warner. The theatre had RCA/Brenkert projectors and 35mm magnetic stereo sound.

Purchased by Cinemette in 1973 and closed on July 28, 1985 with Clint Eastwood in “Pale Rider”.

Contributed by Doug Kght

Recent comments (view all 15 comments)

oldwilliampenn
oldwilliampenn on June 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm

It was the Monroeville Theatre at 3813 William Penn Highway – it was part of the Zayre Shopping Center. The spiral staircase was still used when it converted to the first Pittsburgh location of Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre.

edblank
edblank on June 7, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Thank you for clarifying that the staircase was in the Monroe rather than in Cinema 22, Will.

AndyT
AndyT on June 7, 2008 at 6:52 pm

I guess I’m kind of like Ed; the Monroeville theaters of the 70s have merged for me. I remember the Zayre store, and I have just the vaguest recollection of this theater. I must have gone there —– I was as big a movie buff then as I am now. I moved away from Penn Hills in 1980, so my memory is frozen in the past.

oldwilliampenn
oldwilliampenn on June 7, 2008 at 8:57 pm

Cinema 22 was located midpoint of the Monroeville Plaza generally where Papermart is now located.

csepe
csepe on November 27, 2010 at 8:30 am

I saw a rotten Disney movie at this theater about Vikings and orcas (the title was something about the top of the world?). The front facade looked like a barn. I’m having a hard time believing it had 775 seats because even as a kid it didn’t look all that big to me, and I knew big theaters at that time.

RSM3853
RSM3853 on January 7, 2014 at 4:42 pm

@csepe: It was “The Island at the Top of the World,” Disney’s Christmas picture for 1974.

rivest266
rivest266 on September 21, 2014 at 12:32 am

December 22nd, 1967 grand opening ad in photo section

Denny Pine
Denny Pine on April 11, 2018 at 7:04 pm

Final day of operation was July 28, 1985 with “Pale Rider”

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on May 31, 2022 at 2:21 pm

According the opening notice, Cinema 22 launched as an original tenant in the Monroe Plaza Shopping Center with a single auditorium that seated 800 and the architectural style they went for was “early Colonial.”

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