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FunTime Cinemas, after some renovations, announced they would reopen the former Mahoning Valley Cinemas in early 2021. [12] [13] [14] Carbon Plaza Mall was sold to Larken Associates for $18 million in November 2021. [1] Mahoning Valley 8 theaters closed in September 2023 at the request of the landlord and will be replaced by Marshalls. [15] [16]
The Mahoning Drive-In Theater is a drive-in theater located in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, along Route 443. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Opened in 1949, the Mahoning was one of many drive-in theaters that became popular in the United States following World War II . [ 3 ]
A drive-in theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand, and a large parking area for automobiles. Within this enclosed area, customers can view films from their cars. This list includes active and defunct drive-in theaters.
In the 1990s, Cinemark Theatres was one of the first chains to incorporate stadium-style seating into their theatres. [24] In 1997, several disabled individuals filed a lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that their stadium style seats forced patrons who used wheelchairs to sit in the front row of the theatre, effectively rendering them unable to see the screen without assuming a horizontal ...
The Mahoning Valley is a geographic valley encompassing Northeast Ohio and a small portion of Western Pennsylvania that drains into the Mahoning River. According to information at the bottom of Page 321 in a publication [ 1 ] by the Ohio Secretary of State's Office , the river name comes from an Indian word meaning “at the licks.”
In 1949, the Mahoning Drive-In Theater opened in Lehighton. [20] Though its popularity waned with the advent of multiplex theaters in the 1970s and 1980s, it has seen a resurgence in popularity since 2014, due to the management's decision to screen primarily older cult films and B movies as opposed to newer releases. [20]
The Mahoning Valley is suitable for steel manufacture because of "its proximity to the Lake Erie ports that receive iron ore…the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; and to limestone deposits." [7] The "25-mile stretch of steel mills and related industries" along the Mahoning River is similar to the Ruhr Valley in Germany."
Its villages include Dry Tavern, Jamestown, Mahoning Valley (also in West Penn Township, Schuylkill County), New Mahoning, Normal Square, and Packerton. The township has varied elevations from 450 to 650 feet (140 to 200 m) in the valleys along PA Routes 443 and 902 and rising to 950 to 1,150 feet (290 to 350 m) on the top of Mahoning Mountain ...