Century Square Luxury Cinemas
2001 Mountain View Drive,
West Mifflin,
PA
15122
2001 Mountain View Drive,
West Mifflin,
PA
15122
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This was originally a Mulone Theater (as well as Cheswick, Harmar, Waterworks, Cinema 356). The only one not close to that Allegheny Valley area. It opened with signage and marquee as “Century Square Cinemas & Maxi-Saver” presumably half the theater was to be first run and the other half discount shows. It never did show first run movies, and the Mulones sold it off pretty quickly. It is now the Century Square Luxury Cinemas, showing first run movies with all reserved, lounger seating and huge aisles.
I’m so glad this place reopened.
This theater is being completely renovated by Golden Star Theaters….completely new lobby, new concession, bathrooms, bar area and bar seating…stadium/recliner seating…new screens, digital projectors…..it should be a fantastic, upscale, first run house…there will be 10 screens instead of 12 due to expanding two of the theaters…..
June 21st, 1991 grand opening ad in photo section.
So sad that this place closed.
As of Sunday January 27th After business day the Theater is closing. The landlord is not renewing the lease so Sunday is the last day for this theater. I hope another Cinema company takes over but future is uncertain. They where actually supposed to remodel by the end of the year but guess not. Here are some photos I Taken of the Booth and some other places. http://www.flickr.com/photos/77799030@N08/
I lived in the Pittsburgh area from 1990-1995. I used to date a woman from Clairton, PA. We’d come here on occasion. I remember seeing “Dead Again”, “Hand That Rocks the Cradle”, “Shawshank Redemption”, and the trash classics “Sliver” and “Basic Instinct” here.
Just joking Susan!!
tlsloews,
Don’t get me wrong, I like this place. It’s just a little far from my house.
What do you expect for $1.98? A movie palace.
Mike Rivest,
The link doesn’t work.
Turn the page at View link to see the grand opening ad sideways.
Carmike is now advertising that you can use your debit or credit card here and that a 99 cent fee applies.
Yippee! Now I can be charged a 99 cent service charge on a 99 cent ticket!
June 21, 1991 was the opening date.
aw that’s so awesome!!! I’m going to have to sneak a peek next time.
There are still names there under the door frame. There are lots more now. There is a lot of history there.
I worked there all through high school in the mid 1990’s. It was such a blast. seriously the most fun I’ve had at a job. We all signed our names under the door frame in the kitchen.. is it still there? I remember the 1st movie I ever saw there just when it opened was “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead.” The steel City Carnival was running that summer in the Century Square parking lot. Wow… such a long time ago.
I asked my manager and she says the place opened in 1990.
For a bit of more history when they opened it was supposed to be split in to two parts. A century square cinema was for first run and a maxi saver cinema was second run. I am not sure if that is what they did but I know that was the concept. You can see the first six auditoriums are for the most part bigger than the other six on the other end.
When did this theater open? As Paul F. says, it may have opened prior to 1991.
I been working there since 2004. The place is good for the most part. There have been rumors ever since I been there about remolding. To my It was owned by by another company before Carmike bought them some time around 1997. With the Prices at .99 cents we are busy on the weekends and on Tuesdays with the BYOB (bring your own bucket) where you can get bring in a bucket and get popcorn for .50 cents. For the condition of the building every thing is original. That means almost 20 years and things are starting to break. the century and Cinemeccanica projectors are older then the building over 40 years and still running strong for the most part. As long as people stop vandalizing and the night cleaning people actual clean then it can be a nice place to see a bargain movie.
A poster on the “Cinema 4” entry says that this place is not doing well. I hope that it does not close because it is the last bargain house in the Pittsburgh are now that the Hollywood and the Screenworks have closed.
I seem to recall that this place may have opened a little before 1991. My then-girlfriend and I used to see movies here all the time. I vaguely recall that it was also known as Century Square. Century Square is the Big Box shopping center adajacent to Century III Mall.
Our local cheap seats made it! lol. Films are still $1.50 I believe.