Cinema 22
4680 Old William Penn Highway,
Monroeville,
PA
15146
4680 Old William Penn Highway,
Monroeville,
PA
15146
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According the opening notice, Cinema 22 launched as an original tenant in the Monroe Plaza Shopping Center with a single auditorium that seated 800 and the architectural style they went for was “early Colonial.”
Final day of operation was July 28, 1985 with “Pale Rider”
December 22nd, 1967 grand opening ad in photo section
@csepe: It was “The Island at the Top of the World,” Disney’s Christmas picture for 1974.
I saw a rotten Disney movie at this theater about Vikings and orcas (the title was something about the top of the world?). The front facade looked like a barn. I’m having a hard time believing it had 775 seats because even as a kid it didn’t look all that big to me, and I knew big theaters at that time.
Renewing link.
Cinema 22 was located midpoint of the Monroeville Plaza generally where Papermart is now located.
I guess I’m kind of like Ed; the Monroeville theaters of the 70s have merged for me. I remember the Zayre store, and I have just the vaguest recollection of this theater. I must have gone there —– I was as big a movie buff then as I am now. I moved away from Penn Hills in 1980, so my memory is frozen in the past.
Thank you for clarifying that the staircase was in the Monroe rather than in Cinema 22, Will.
It was the Monroeville Theatre at 3813 William Penn Highway – it was part of the Zayre Shopping Center. The spiral staircase was still used when it converted to the first Pittsburgh location of Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre.
Cinema 22 had 775 seats.
Cinema 22, in Monroeville Plaza, and the Monroe, at 3813 William Penn Highway – both on Route 22, have merged in my memory. Does anyone remember which had a spiral staircase in the lobby?
I believe it is presently used by Papermart for their retail operations, but the space was much larger so some type of demolition must have occured, unless they use a lot of space somewhere in the back for merchandise storage.
I think it was in the plaza with the Lone Star and Big Lots, but I don’t know exactly which space.
Where in Monroeville was this theater located?
The last feature to play here was “Pale Rider” on July 28, 1985.