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Nov 5, 2009 11:08 pm US/Eastern
Cheswick Theatre Closing After More Than 60 Years
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The Cheswick Theatre began as a one screen cinema, went to two screens in 1967 and was remodeled 10 years ago into a four screen complex.
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The final curtain came down at a local movie theater.
Joseph Mulone opened Cheswick Theatre on Pittsburgh Street in 1948. It's now owned and operated by his son, Nick Mulone.
It began as a one screen cinema, went to two screens in 1967 and was remodeled 10 years ago into a four screen complex.
"The handwriting was on the wall years ago, but, I tried to make changes to accommodate the changing times, more specifically, fewer and fewer movie patrons, and distributors taking more and more of the gross," Mulone said.
In the end, though, Mulone could not compete with the multiplex theaters that are now part of the landscape, like the one at Pittsburgh Mills, just a few miles from Cheswick, and the huge Lowes Theater at the Waterfront in Homestead.
"It's very sad because we're going to miss it, because it's part of Cheswick, we don't know what we're going to do without it," Mary Ann Wilson said.
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