Studio Movie Grill at 69th Street
53 S. 69th Street,
Upper Darby,
PA
19082
53 S. 69th Street,
Upper Darby,
PA
19082
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Previously operated by: Studio Movie Grill, United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Previous Names: UA Movies at 69th Street
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The UA Movies at 69th Street is immediately outside Philadelphia (at its western suburbs) in Upper Darby in Delaware County, one block from Septa’s transportation station known as the 69th Street Terminal.
The movie theater is one block from the 69th Street Terminal in a historic shopping corridor that also includes the historic Tower Theatre movie palace (now open only for concerts). A major newspaper advertisement stated that “Free Lighted Parking” is provided.
With more than 2,000 seats, the movie theatre opened on December 25, 1992, returning movie theaters to an area that had previously had single screen theaters for decades.
Appropriately enough for a shopping area that has many Art Deco style buildings, the theater’s exterior is in a neo-Deco style. There are nine auditoriums, which are “shoebox”-style screening rooms rather than the auditoriums with stadium seating and very large screens found in today’s megaplexes.
It was closed in mid-December 2012. It reopened July 23, 2015 as a Studio Movie Grill with 9 auditoriums, with a total of 831 seats, and a bar. It closed in September 2024.
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Howard B Haas
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My advice to the new management, security, security, security! I am not being cynical but if you let a patronage of individuals, whom you cannot reason with, destroy this theater as they did with the UA and the UA Cheltenham. The Cinemark on 40th St, has a curfew to keep little hellions out of the theater after 9:00 PM.
Studio Movie Grill opens today.
today’s Inquirer article on 2 hotels opening in Upper Darby has the following paragraph: In 2015, Studio Movie Grill opened a $6 million state-of-the-art digital theater complex with nine theaters and 900 reclining seats. H&M, Gap, Old Navy, Fresh Grocer, Ross, and Burlington Coat Factory also have opened in the 69th Street area in recent years.
I hope this theater does well Howard.
Seating capacities at this theater (via Fandango’s reserved seating service):
Theater 1 – 113 seats
Theater 2 – 63 seats
Theater 3 – 57 seats
Theater 4 – 72 seats
Theater 5 – 108 seats
Theater 6 – 171 seats
Theaters 7 & 9 – 82 seats
Theater 8 – 83 seats
Howard is this theater still open? I saw on another post Studio Movie Grill was out of business.
https://www.studiomoviegrill.com/locations/pennsylvania/upper-darby/2024/2/5
Thanks mOOse1111. Glad they are still open. I grew up there. Happy that the Tower is still in operation as a concert venue and the old 69th St after being closed for over 40 years is reopened for church plays.
Studio Movie Grill in Upper Darby closed permanently in September, 2024
It was a matter of time since they closed all their other locations. Maybe another chain will come in