I worked at the State in the summer of 66 to 67 when it was re-opened by a Pittsburgh Company. I worked in candy sales/usher/fix-it guy & even helped with the booker getting films played there. I just lived around the corner from the theater so helped the manager run the operation. It did very well running second run films that the other theaters overlooked in there theaterical run. Usually playing a feature a week or two. I was 17/18 years old at the time. I later went into the projection end of the business working in all the cinemas in New Castle Pa area during and up to Apr 1969 when I left the area for the AF. I will post pictures that I have of the inside of the State while they were fixing up the auditorium going from Cinema to Stage.
In later yaers it ran just on weekends and it did try xxx rated film until it closed in the late 80’s
Taken July 1986,workers unknown
Taken July 1986
Taken July 1986
Taken in July 1986
Taked July 1986
I worked at the State in the summer of 66 to 67 when it was re-opened by a Pittsburgh Company. I worked in candy sales/usher/fix-it guy & even helped with the booker getting films played there. I just lived around the corner from the theater so helped the manager run the operation. It did very well running second run films that the other theaters overlooked in there theaterical run. Usually playing a feature a week or two. I was 17/18 years old at the time. I later went into the projection end of the business working in all the cinemas in New Castle Pa area during and up to Apr 1969 when I left the area for the AF. I will post pictures that I have of the inside of the State while they were fixing up the auditorium going from Cinema to Stage. In later yaers it ran just on weekends and it did try xxx rated film until it closed in the late 80’s