Cinema 8 at the Shoppes at Northway
8000 McKnight Road,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15267
8000 McKnight Road,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15267
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so do you intend to share with the class what this theatre was in Fremont was?
I’M BLIND!!! JK! 🤣🤣🤣
FYI Super Saver did a lot of disco themed movie theaters…
Exhibit #1 Your Honor:
The Fremont CA location looked like CLUB Xanadu! I KID YOU NOT! 🤭🤭😁
Super Saver Cinema was opened by Movie One Theater Inc. of Texas - the originator of the Super Saver Cinema concept. It launched in the former G.C. Murphy retail store spot in Northway Mall. It was soon acquired in early 1990 by National Amusement which placed the Super Saver 8 under its Showcase Cinema brand.
On November 1, 2001, the venue changed names to Northway Mall Cinema 8 as National Amusements gravitated the location to first-run status. In 2005, the Northway Mall changed its name to Shoppes at Northway. The venue became known in 2005 as the Cinema 8 at the Shoppes at Northway - a mouthful - until an announced closure of January 28, 2007. It indeed closed under that name but likely discontinuing operations earlier on January 17, 2007.
This was opened by Movie One from Texas. newspaper article:
Super Saver Cinemas opening Fri, Apr 8, 1988 – Page 27 · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
True it was a SUPER SAVER CINEMA out of EL PASO TX all seats one dollar the photo put up is not that theater but you one an idea how it looked
April 1st, 1988 and November 23rd, 2001 grand opening ads in the photo section.
Another former National Amusements site.
Showcase Pittsburgh East
Showcase Pittsburgh West
Showcase Pittsburgh North
and Northway Mall Cinemas 8
Thanks, KingB.
I thought they were the same. I was only here once.
That’s what the ad says.
Wasn’t this theater once known as the Super Saver?
Grand opening ad at View link
Also 71 dude, your link does not work.
Yes, Dirty Dancing!
Paul,
As the description above says, it was a second-run theatre when you worked there. It’s not surprise that it lasted less than twenty years and that going to first-run was a mistake. Northway Mall has always been considered a second-tier mall.
I worked at Northway Mall very briefly circa 1991. 17 years ago, the theatre did quite well. I believe it was a second-run house by then. What caused the theatre to close?