Sky Theatre

The D.L. Clark Building was built by Pittsburgh candy manufacturer David L. Clark of Clark Chewing Gum in 1903. Clark would move to a new location and go on to create the Clark candy bar during World War I and the Zagnut candy bar during the Depression. But the Keystone Theater, a silent motion picture theater, opened in the location in 1914 beginning a 37 year motion picture run at the famous address.

The Keystone Theatre was the operational name of the diminutive 300-seat theatre in its silent era running 15 years likely to the opt out point of a lease in 1929. New operators wired the venue for sound under the name of the Ohio Theatre.

The venue’s final name was as the Sky Theatre. The Sky turned grey as the neighborhood’s fortunes and appears to have ended very badly in March of 1951 when five teens robbed and stabbed a patron in the restroom leading to negative publicity. The venue was converted into a furniture store and a long-running bakery that was still operating in Pittsburgh’s Historic Deutschtown commercial business district on the city’s Northside into the 2020’s.

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