AMC Classic Uniontown 6

1372 W. Main Street,
Uniontown, PA 15401

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on January 9, 2023 at 4:34 pm

Manos Amusement opened the “Twin 40 I & II” on May 23, 1973. On December 17, 1983, the twin theater was converted into a quad and was renamed “Quad 40 Cinema”. The theater remained as a Manos theater until being purchased by Carmike in 1993. Two more screens were added in May 1995 and became the Cinema 6.

StrangeStephen
StrangeStephen on August 8, 2021 at 7:03 pm

Closed for good July 18th, per mall security. Took pics.

rayman29
rayman29 on April 5, 2017 at 9:02 pm

Now the AMC Classic Uniontown 6.

rivest266
rivest266 on October 5, 2014 at 2:40 pm

Twin 40 I & II grand opening ad from May 23rd, 1973 with picture in photo section.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on June 5, 2010 at 6:43 am

An October 7, 1975, Boxoffice item about the plans of the Manos circuit to build a quad in Altoona mentions the Twin 40 Cinema at Uniontown. It had been designed by the same architect who was handling the Altoona project, Edgar Kwalwasser. The Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania, architect had also designed the circuit’s Laurel 30 at Greensburg Pennsylvania and Twin Cinema at Elkins, West Virginia.

In 1978, Kwalwasser was the architect for a Manos triplex in Kittanning (Boxoffice, April 17, 1978), and designed a two-screen addition to the Laurel 40, originally a single-screener (Boxoffice of March 20.) In 1970, Kwalwasser had designed a 470 seat house for Manos at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Uniontown’s Twin 40 was opened in 1973. According to the item about the opening in Boxoffice of June 4, the first movies shown were “Class of ‘44” in Cinema 1 and “Man of la Mancha” in Cinema 2.

I’ve been unable to discover when the Twin 40 was expanded to six screens. The Manos chain had 19 theaters with a total of 80 screens when it was absorbed by Carmike in 1993.