Hill Theatre
2131 Market Street,
Camp Hill,
PA
17011
2131 Market Street,
Camp Hill,
PA
17011
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Chertcoff
Architects: William Lynch Murray
Functions: Café
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The Hill Theatre was opened February 19, 1947 with Dennis Morgan in “The Time, the Place and the Girl”. It was Closed on July 22, 1976 with Geraldine Page in “Hazel’s People”.
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The Hill, along with the Uptown in Harrisburg, were two of the newest theaters in the Harrisburg area circa the 1950s. Probably the last new neighborhood theaters before shopping malls changed everything.
My parents took me to theaters all over the Harrisburg/West Shore area and I remember the Hill as a very nice one. It was a single building set back from the street and there was a parking lot to the left of it. There was a roomy lobby/entrance (as I recall) and a downstairs lounge reached by a stairway at the back of the auditorium. I remember everything about the theater as being new, modern (as opposed to theaters like the Colonial), and attractive.
Later I got to know theaters in York, Lancaster, and Philadelphia.
Would love to see those scrapbooks too, but I’m no longer in the area.
Looking forward to you placing your photos on your blog. I hope it is soon.
I’m working on this. I just submitted an entry on the Rio.
Harry Chertcoff address in 1956 was 419 E.king st. Lancaster,Pa. dennis.
The February 19, 1947, issue of the Harrisburg Evening News said that Harry Chertcoff’s new Hill Theatre in Camp Hill would open that night. The Hill Theatre was designed by architect William Lynch Murray.
What a great, beautiful theater it was in its heyday. Dark red use of color, like a royal palace interior. Use to go there as a kid, saw lots of Kurt Russell Disney films, Superdad, The Shining, Zeppelin and even Nicholas and Alexandra shown in the phone above. When they tore it down, a little bit of my childhood died.
I grew up in Camp Hill and saw every kid movie that played here from 1960 on… I’m wondering if somewhere, somehow there might be a list of what movies played and when? I realize this is a shout-out to cyberspace, but if anyone knows if there is one and point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.
I have a very specific memory of being jealous that my older brother got to go see “House on Haunted Hill” and I was too young to go with him. Although the film was released in 1959, I’m thinking he saw it in 1960 or 61… at the Hill.
Thoughts?
…. and thanks.
Does anyone remember when the Hill closed? Isn’t there a Rite Aid there now?
Cornerstone Coffeehouse is the current tenant.
The Chetco Chain Theatre Circuit launched the Hill Theatre on February 19, 1947 with Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson in “The Time, the Place, and the Girl.” The streamline moderne theatre was one of twelve operated by Harry Chertcoff’s chain. The theatre appears to have closed on July 22, 1976 with Geraldine Page in “Hazel’s People” likely at the end of.a 30-year lease.