Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Silent-Era Theater in Carrick

1732 Brownsville Road

This building shows up as a theater on a 1916 map, and that is all Father Pitt knows about it.

The intersection of Brownsville Road and Narrow Avenue (now Newett Street) in 1916.

It is not documented at Cinema Treasures, where theater fanatics have catalogued 178 theaters in Pittsburgh, or at the expiring and impossible-to-navigate Carrick-Overbrook Wiki, so it may not have lasted very long as a theater. (And Father Pitt is only making the assumption that it was a movie theater rather than a live theater or vaudeville house, because the latter seems much less likely for the era and place.) If anyone from the neighborhood knows the story of this building, the information will be received with gratitude. The building is well kept: it has been updated just enough to be useful to its current tenant without destroying the original design of the exterior.

Old theater in Carrick
Perspective view

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