Fair Ground Drive-In
Brownsville Road and Greenbriar Drive,
South Park,
PA
15129
Brownsville Road and Greenbriar Drive,
South Park,
PA
15129
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Opened July 8, 1959 with “Ask Any Girl” & “Night of the Quarter Moon”. It closed after the 1986 season. Located about a half mile west of the South Park Fairgrounds. The screen, poles, marquee, and snack bar/projection room remained for several years after its last night of operation, but now everything is gone. A housing development now occupies the drive-in site.
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Boy, Norelco you had a tough business agent. Mike Local 629.
Yeah what a set up!!!!
THe more I read that your BUSINESS AGENT was quite SPINELESS!!!
Does anybody have any photos of this drive-in that they could post?
grand opening ad in photo section
The Fair Ground Drive-In Theatre’s grand opening pictures are in photos. Architect was Meyer VeShancey and built by Branna Construction. The $500,000 facility had space for 1,000 cars at opening. The theatre had 70mm capability with Bauer-NTS projectors with Ashcraft Super Cinex lamps with pole-mounted stereo speakers. The tower measured 120' wide by 75' high. “Ask Any Girl” was the first movie for the Gabriel G. Rubin-led Fair Ground D-I.
Address is off by about ½ mile.
Brownsville Road at Greenbriar Dr
South Park, PA 15129
Final night of operation was on August 31, 1986 with “Last Resort” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2”
The April 13, 1970 issue of Boxoffice noted that Fair Ground owner Gabe Rubin also owned the (ultimately short-lived) Pittsburgh Pipers of the American Basketball Association.
Opened on 8th July 1959 with “Ask any girl” and “Night of the quarter moon.