Whitehall, PA (1000 Lehigh Valley Mall)

Whitehall, PA (1000 Lehigh Valley Mall), Store #448 was a Showbiz Pizza Place that opened on December 16, 1983 as a franchised location with a Classic Stage . The store is located in a freestanding building right outside of the Lehigh Valley Mall. As of April 2024, this location has the 2.0 remodel.

Stages

Originally, Whitehall featured a Rock-afire Explosion which was originally from the Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) Showbiz that closed not long before then, as all other Showbiz locations at the time did. Unfortunately, there are some photos but no videos to exist of Whitehall with the Rock afire, or as a ShowBiz in general. they got Concept Unification sometime between 1991 and 1992. In 2010 they remodeled to have the characters on one stage, this would be called the Concept Unification 1-Stage by fans. Chuck is was wearing the avenger shirt and jeans, and the rest of the band has the usual cosmetics minus Helen loosing her flower in 2018. On July 12, 2023, the stage was removed as apart of the location receiving the 2.0 remodel and was replaced with the Dance Floor and Video Wall.

History

Whitehall opened its doors on December 16th, 1983 as the last Showbiz Pizza store in Pennsylvania, in a freestanding building right outside of the Lehigh Valley Mall. Like many other ShowBiz Pizza locations, it had a typical SPP layout (Except that the show was on the right side wall opposed to being on the back wall) seen in many other stores across the United States and would eventually receive the 1988 remodel years after it would open. Although some little documentation exists back in the ShowBiz days, it can be determined that Whitehall was one of several locations to receive an Uncle Klunk show package (and a Santa Claus retrofit package as well) sometime after opening. Like many ShowBiz locations in the late 1980s, Whitehall received the Showbiz Pizza Campground upgrade. The store eventually made the decision to close in 1989 before the 1988 Remodel.⁽¹⁾ On January 16th, 1990, Whitehall was acquired by Corporate. Whitehall then underwent Concept Unification in around 1991, converting the RockAfire Explosion into Munch's Make Believe Band. In late 2010 the store remodeled to house the new Concept Unification 1-Stage (Which was one of three installed and was the first one to install it. The other two were located at the Springfield, IL (2369 McArthur Ave) & Columbus, GA (3201 Macon Rd) ) which involved expanding the gameroom and moving the show to the back wall. By early July 2023, the store would begin its 2.0 remodel, removing the stage by July 12th. They had it's grand reopening of the store 2 months later on September 7th, 2023.

Video

Link	Description	Date Filmed	Date Published
Link	Chuck E Cheese Whitehall April 2009 Segment 1	April 2009	Apr 13, 2019
Link	Chuck E Cheese Whitehall April 2009 Segment 2	April 2009	Apr 28, 2019
Link	Chuck E Cheese Whitehall April 2009 show segment 4	April 2009	Mar 9, 2011
Link	The Animatronics during the CU-1 Stage Installation	2010	Sep 23, 2010
Link	Whitehall Chuck E Cheese - January 2012 segment 1	January 28th, 2012	May 29, 2020
Link	Chuck E. Cheese Whitehall PA~Down The Road	N/A	Jul 12, 2022
Link	A short clip of Out of this World being performed at Whitehall.	August 2, 2020	July 14, 2023
Link	A short clip of Out of this World being performed at Whitehall.	August 2, 2020	July 14, 2023
Link	Store Tour of the store from August 2020 during the early stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic.	August 2, 2020	July 18, 2023
Link	'El Rey Guitarrista' from Chuck E Cheese's Show 2 2020 being performed on Whitehall's CU 1-Stage.	August 2, 2020	July 18, 2023
Link	'My Family' from Chuck E Cheese's Show 3 2019 being performed on Whitehall's CU 1-Stage.	August 2, 2020	July 18, 2023
Link	'Barbara the Barnyard Barber' from Chuck E Cheese's Show 2 2020 being performed on Whitehall's CU 1-Stage.	August 2, 2020	July 18, 2023
Link	'Out of this World' from Chuck E Cheese's Show 5 2016 being performed on Whitehall's CU 1-Stage. The 2020 Social Distancing ad can also be seen in this video.	August 2, 2020	July 18, 2023

Animatronics

Animatronic	Serial Number	Whereabouts
Rolfe Dewolfe & Earl Schmerle (Animatronic)	1-82 1-12	Taken to Showbiz Pizza Time Distribution Center (Topeka, KS) . Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Dook Larue (Animatronic)	1-82 2-12	Taken to Showbiz Pizza Time Distribution Center (Topeka, KS) . Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Fatz Geronimo (Animatronic)	1-82 3-12	Taken to Showbiz Pizza Time Distribution Center (Topeka, KS) . Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Beach Bear (Animatronic)	1-82 4-12	Taken to Showbiz Pizza Time Distribution Center (Topeka, KS) . Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Mitzi Mozzarella (Animatronic)	1-82 5-12	Taken to Showbiz Pizza Time Distribution Center (Topeka, KS) . Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Billy Bob (Animatronic)	1-82 6-12	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Looney Bird (Animatronic)	1-82 7-12	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Choo Choo (Animatronic)	1-82 8-12	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Sun (Animatronic)	1-82 10-12	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Moon (Animatronic)	1-82 11-12	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Antioch (Animatronic)	N/A	Unknown. Originally from Abilene, TX (1874 S Clack St) .
Wink	N/A	Destroyed.