We took a trip out to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania to check out one of the last remaining Pizza Hut Classic locations… and it honestly felt like stepping back into the 90s. (This was actually filmed a while ago, back in September of 2025, when we filmed at Reaper's Revenge haunted hayride near Scranton, PA for Monster Madness. Same day!)
If you grew up going to Pizza Hut, you probably remember it as more than just pizza. The red cups, the dim lighting, the buffet, the arcade machines… it was a whole experience. Something you don't really get anymore. So I went out there with Justin, Ryan, and Patrick and just started talking about all the weird, specific memories that come with Pizza Hut. The ads, the promotions, Ninja Turtles, demo discs, Friday nights… all of it. But at the same time, it's kind of a weird feeling. Because these "Pizza Hut Classic" locations are both a time capsule… and a modern attempt to recreate something that's been gone for years.
So the question is… what place would YOU want to see brought back like this?
Visit the Tunkhannock Pizza Hut:
828 Route 6 W, Tunkhannock, PA 18657
Ah...
Book It! Yeah, I remember getting at least one of those free personal pan pizzas as a kid. (We didn't have a fancy pants website/app for it back then, though, or a fancy pants Internet at all, for that matter.)
Pizza Hut is also where I got a cassette tape (sadly vanished into the ether now, not that I'd have a way to play it, even if I did still have it) of the
"Coming Out of Their Shells" Ninja Turtles music tour, as
I've mentioned before. (And speaking of
TMNT, Cinemassacre, and pizza...)
I... do
not remember
"Pizza Head" at all, though. o_O Nor do I recall ever getting a Playstation demo disc at Pizza Hut.
The old, red-top Pizza Hut in my hometown is basically an abandoned building now, as far as I'm aware. You can see it
here in a top-down view in Google Maps. Street view for the old Pizza Hut barely exists. You can
kind of see it
here, poking up through the vegetation that has partially overtaken it, but that was about the best I could do. (Google Maps erroneously claims that Tiano's Pizza is there, but Tiano's is actually
across the
street in a shopping center, not its own distinct building. I've submitted corrections in Google Maps for this error, so maybe they'll fix it someday. *shrug*) For what it's worth, Pizza Hut in my hometown moved down the road a bit to
this location. It's still a fancier building than some generic rectangle or whatever, but it's definitely not
the original, iconic building shape, as seen in the above video. The Pizza Hut closest to where I live now is just
some bland, delivery/carry-out only hole in the wall place, which kind of sucks. I mean, the food's still fine, but it's definitely not a place like the one seen in the video above (they don't even have anywhere you can sit down, aside from a couple chairs for people waiting for take-out orders).
In any case, after watching this video, I kind of want a pizza from Pizza Hut now. Don't even care that it's almost 5:30am and I should've been in bed ages ago. ¬_¬
(Been a while since I used that "
pizza" tag, though it's likely that I could probably find more recent posts in which I've mentioned pizza than what's there now.)
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