Cinema 22

4680 Old William Penn Highway,
Monroeville, PA 15146

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on May 31, 2022 at 9:21 am

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.”

Denny Pine
Denny Pine on April 11, 2018 at 2:04 pm

Final day of operation was July 28, 1985 with “Pale Rider”

rivest266
rivest266 on September 20, 2014 at 7:32 pm

December 22nd, 1967 grand opening ad in photo section

RSM3853
RSM3853 on January 7, 2014 at 11:42 am

@csepe: It was “The Island at the Top of the World,” Disney’s Christmas picture for 1974.

csepe
csepe on November 27, 2010 at 3:30 am

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.

oldwilliampenn
oldwilliampenn on June 7, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Cinema 22 was located midpoint of the Monroeville Plaza generally where Papermart is now located.

AndyT
AndyT on June 7, 2008 at 1:52 pm

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.

edblank
edblank on June 7, 2008 at 10:01 am

Thank you for clarifying that the staircase was in the Monroe rather than in Cinema 22, Will.

oldwilliampenn
oldwilliampenn on June 7, 2008 at 8:55 am

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.

edblank
edblank on June 6, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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?

oldwilliampenn
oldwilliampenn on September 11, 2006 at 8:33 pm

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.

71dude
71dude on April 28, 2006 at 6:21 am

I think it was in the plaza with the Lone Star and Big Lots, but I don’t know exactly which space.

raubre
raubre on April 27, 2006 at 5:41 pm

Where in Monroeville was this theater located?

71dude
71dude on April 27, 2006 at 5:37 pm

The last feature to play here was “Pale Rider” on July 28, 1985.