Hill Theatre

The Hill, along with the Uptown in Harrisburg, were two of the newest theaters in the Harrisburg area circa the 1950s. Probably the last new neighborhood theaters before shopping malls changed everything.
My parents took me to theaters all over the Harrisburg/West Shore area and I remember the Hill as a very nice one. It was a single building set back from the street and there was a parking lot to the left of it. There was a roomy lobby/entrance (as I recall) and a downstairs lounge reached by a stairway at the back of the auditorium. I remember everything about the theater as being new, modern (as opposed to theaters like the Colonial), and attractive.
Later I got to know theaters in York, Lancaster, and Philadelphia.
Would love to see those scrapbooks too, but I’m no longer in the area.

I’m working on this. I just submitted an entry on the Rio.

The February 19, 1947, issue of the Harrisburg Evening News said that Harry Chertcoff’s new Hill Theatre in Camp Hill would open that night. The Hill Theatre was designed by architect William Lynch Murray.

I grew up in Camp Hill and saw every kid movie that played here from 1960 on… I’m wondering if somewhere, somehow there might be a list of what movies played and when? I realize this is a shout-out to cyberspace, but if anyone knows if there is one and point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.

I have a very specific memory of being jealous that my older brother got to go see “House on Haunted Hill” and I was too young to go with him. Although the film was released in 1959, I’m thinking he saw it in 1960 or 61… at the Hill.

Thoughts?
…. and thanks.

Cornerstone Coffeehouse is the current tenant.