Mea culpa! I had a momentary memory lapse of geography there, Warren. I was thinking of the Taft Hotel, which now has a different name, probably being up against the Roxy’s west side wall and possibly its north wall. Does that compute?
The Crest definitely was twinned, 71Dude. Someone who worked for Associated, Cinemette and Cinema World is searching for a date of the twinning. But it did happen some years before the closing.
I once found my way to the Echo from the commercial vehicle road atop the hill but never could locate that road, nor the drive in beside it, again. Is the screen still in place? Is the lot still unoccupied?
The Colonial was on the opposite side of Route 51, about half a mile south of the South Hills Drive-In but not as far south as the Echo.
The Colonial’s screen finally was removed, after facing the empty lot for many years. The lot itself has grown over but is still unoccupied and still obviously a former outdoor theater.
Part of the box office remains at the entrance on Elliot Road. I was there less than a month ago glancing over the ruins.
No, the South Hills Drive-In became the Bowser Pontiac lot. The Echo was a mile or two south, on the same side of Route 51. The Echo sat atop a hill that was accessed by a narrow path that cut through a thickly treed hill. When the drive-in closed, the road became impenetrable because it was blocked by tree stumps, etc., at the bottom. I can no longer even spot the former entrance to that private road.
Is there a way to magnify the Pittsburgh newspaper pages posted? They appear so small they’re unreadable. The guys who post NY Times pages and stories for New York theaters somehow manage to fill the computer screen, and even the smallest type is readable. Pittsburgh Cinema Treasures contributors post small, inky black images. Have no idea what the difference is in the way they’re posted. I’ve had no luck trying to enlarge the Pittsburgh ones. Would love to be able to read them line by line. Thank you for any help on this.
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Mea culpa! I had a momentary memory lapse of geography there, Warren. I was thinking of the Taft Hotel, which now has a different name, probably being up against the Roxy’s west side wall and possibly its north wall. Does that compute?
The Mayfair’s (later the DeMille’s) walls must have abutted those of the Roxy, right, for as long as the Roxy survived?
The Crest definitely was twinned, 71Dude. Someone who worked for Associated, Cinemette and Cinema World is searching for a date of the twinning. But it did happen some years before the closing.
Hilarious, Al. Thanks to Warren and to you for the information and a good laugh.
Hilarious, Al. Thanks to Warren and to you for the information and a good laugh.
If you were driving down Elliot Road toward Route 51, you could see what was on the screen of the Colonial as you passed the entrance.
I once found my way to the Echo from the commercial vehicle road atop the hill but never could locate that road, nor the drive in beside it, again. Is the screen still in place? Is the lot still unoccupied?
The Colonial was on the opposite side of Route 51, about half a mile south of the South Hills Drive-In but not as far south as the Echo.
The Colonial’s screen finally was removed, after facing the empty lot for many years. The lot itself has grown over but is still unoccupied and still obviously a former outdoor theater.
Part of the box office remains at the entrance on Elliot Road. I was there less than a month ago glancing over the ruins.
No, the South Hills Drive-In became the Bowser Pontiac lot. The Echo was a mile or two south, on the same side of Route 51. The Echo sat atop a hill that was accessed by a narrow path that cut through a thickly treed hill. When the drive-in closed, the road became impenetrable because it was blocked by tree stumps, etc., at the bottom. I can no longer even spot the former entrance to that private road.
Is there a way to magnify the Pittsburgh newspaper pages posted? They appear so small they’re unreadable. The guys who post NY Times pages and stories for New York theaters somehow manage to fill the computer screen, and even the smallest type is readable. Pittsburgh Cinema Treasures contributors post small, inky black images. Have no idea what the difference is in the way they’re posted. I’ve had no luck trying to enlarge the Pittsburgh ones. Would love to be able to read them line by line. Thank you for any help on this.
Thank you for that photo. I had not realized the Roxy’s marquee stretched around the corner, like RCMH’s, but onto Seventh Avenue.
Is that the Taft Hotel (still there under a different name, I believe) holding up the marquee?