Rustic Drive-In
Mt. Pleasant Road and Brinkerton Road,
Mount Pleasant,
PA
15601
Mt. Pleasant Road and Brinkerton Road,
Mount Pleasant,
PA
15601
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The Rustic Drive-In opened with a 350-car capacity by owner Bernard Buchheit on May 29, 1953 with George Montgomery in “The Pathfinder” & Bud Abbott and Lou Costello “In the Navy”. Located south of Greensburg near the small town of Calumet-Norvelt in the Mount Pleasant Township/United section. In April 1972 it was taken over by Cinemette Corporation of America. Closed at the end of the 1985 season; most of the site is now overgrown with trees.
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This one was near the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Road (SR 2021) and Brinkerton Road.
this wasn’t called the Odin Drive-in.I have that listed in my 1956 Motion Picture Alamanac.
There’s a great photo of the Rustic marquee in the book from the Images Of America series: “Norvelt: A New Deal Subsistence Homestead”.
The Rustic Drive-in was located on Mt Pleasant Road just past the Westmoreland County Fairgrounds on the opposite side of the road approximately ¼ mile. There is nothing left on the site.
Mt Pleasant Rd at Brinkerton Rd
Mount Pleasant, PA 15601
Undated marquee photo added courtesy of Geraldine Dzambo Mizikar.
This place use to show pornos in the 70’s on Saturday nights. Then they stopped only after a few years. I remeber it was a big no no. Those were different times. Gotta love the good old days.
Grand opening ad in the photo section.
Taken over by Cinemette Corporation of America in April 1972.
Today, there is very little left of the drive-in. Amenity Plant Products sits across from the old entrance road. You can just see the curved road outline of the entrance and where it connects to Mt. Pleasant Road.
The foundation of the concession stand/projection booth is still present. There is a small structure, possible a shed, that sits on part of the foundation.
Otherwise, the property is so overgrown with trees that only part of the outline still exists and the exit road which connected to Brinkerton Road is completely gone.