Cinema
28 N. Pennsylvania Avenue,
Greensburg,
PA
15601
28 N. Pennsylvania Avenue,
Greensburg,
PA
15601
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Previously operated by: Associated Theatres
Previous Names: Greensburg, PA
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Associated Theaters, a theater chain headquartered in Pittsburgh, opened a theater called the Cinema in downtown Greensburg in 1965. The best research I can find is that the first film to play there was during the week of June 30 - July 6, 1965 and was MGM’s “Operation Crossbow” with Sophia Loren and George Peppard. I have heard that the property was later a porn theater and then razed years later for a parking structure. It was closed in either late-1980 or early-1981.
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Ron Miller
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Glad to see that my photo of the grand opening night at the Cinema found it’s way to this page. In 1965 Ernest and George Stern’s Associated Theatres purchased the Grand Theatre and after extensive renovations including a new balcony level projection booth, new projection equipment, new draperies that covered the auditorium walls and a new matching screen curtain, refurbished seating, and a fully remodeled lobby that included new glass entry doors below a new marquee, it was reopened as The Cinema in the summer of 1965. The Cinema in downtown Greensburg opened and closed several times in the mid to late ‘70s To the best of my recollection, it permanently closed sometime late in 1980 or early in 1981. Its last movie was a porno. After the Cinema closed we started running them occasionally for a few weeks in every winter and fall at Cinema World Eastgate Plaza until Cinemette Theatres Inc. was purchased by Cinema World Inc. on December 18, 1987.