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Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 10:15:58 AM on 25 March 2020.
	Vintage Pete Location: Albury, NSW Member since 1 May 2016 Member #: 1919 Postcount: 2048
Yep, Drive -in cinema opening up in Melbourne, 40 bucks per car load. It's amazing how's the world goes in circles! You can never predict what's going to happen from day to day . The last film I saw at a drive in was james bond octopussy and I would of been about 15 years old . https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/entertainment/article/new-drive-cinema-opening-melbourne

Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 10:38:28 AM on 25 March 2020.
	Ian Robertson Location: Belrose, NSW Member since 31 December 2015 Member #: 1844 Postcount: 2371
There is still one at Blacktown. https://www.eventcinemas.com.au/Cinema/Drive-In-Blacktown but it is closed for refurb at the moment. "Opening Soon" (now where have we heard that before?) First drive-in in Oz was at Frenchs Forest.There is a remnant - Skyline Shops.

Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 11:27:22 AM on 25 March 2020.
	Robbbert Location: Hill Top, NSW Member since 18 September 2015 Member #: 1801 Postcount: 2015
I remember drive-ins at Chullora/Enfield, Bass Hill/Yagoona, and Sylvania? I'm not exactly sure of the locations, my mind is a bit hazy.

Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 12:48:32 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Ian Robertson Location: Belrose, NSW Member since 31 December 2015 Member #: 1844 Postcount: 2371
Chullora became a bus depot then residential. Bass Hill was on the southern side of the highway. Pub there now. Don't know Sylvania

Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 1:35:43 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Fred Lever Location: Toongabbie, NSW Member since 19 November 2015 Member #: 1828 Postcount: 1250
That one at Chullora was the "Metro Twin" ? With two screens back to back? Used to go there. Fred.

Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 2:27:01 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Ian Robertson Location: Belrose, NSW Member since 31 December 2015 Member #: 1844 Postcount: 2371
Yep that's the one. Watched Doctor Zhivago there, one FREEZING cold night, with my then fiance in my sister's 1954 Ford Popular. No heater of course.

Return to top of page · Post #: 7 · Written at 4:41:41 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Irext Location: Werribee South, VIC Member since 30 September 2016 Member #: 1981 Postcount: 470
The thing I most remember about drive ins was the appalling food.

Return to top of page · Post #: 8 · Written at 4:46:20 PM on 25 March 2020.
	GTC Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 28 January 2011 Member #: 823 Postcount: 6687
First drive-in in Oz was at Frenchs Forest. Right name but wrong state. "The first American-style drive-in theatre to open in Australia was the Skyline in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood on 18 February 1954." "Located in outer north Sydney district of French’s Forest. The Skyline Drive-In was opened on 24th October 1956 with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis in “3 Ring Circus”. It was operated by Consolidated Drive-In Theatres Property Ltd. It was closed on 21st March 1984 and was demolished in 1985."

Return to top of page · Post #: 9 · Written at 8:25:00 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Brad Administrator Location: Naremburn, NSW Member since 15 November 2005 Member #: 1 Postcount: 7301
I remember a Hoyts drive-in being in Tamworth, NSW, on the corner of Duri Road and Hillvue Road (I think) but it was closed for a long time before something replaced it. It closed before I lived there and was a waste ground before being replaced by something else, which I don't remember what. ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Return to top of page · Post #: 10 · Written at 8:30:03 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Vintage Pete Location: Albury, NSW Member since 1 May 2016 Member #: 1919 Postcount: 2048
You lived in Tamworth? My family was from Attunga.long ago

Return to top of page · Post #: 11 · Written at 10:07:08 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Brad Administrator Location: Naremburn, NSW Member since 15 November 2005 Member #: 1 Postcount: 7301
For around four years, a long time ago though. ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Return to top of page · Post #: 12 · Written at 10:25:34 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Pitchersj Location: Albury, NSW Member since 2 July 2017 Member #: 2134 Postcount: 172
When I grew up in Geelong Victoria in the 70,s there were 2 Drive In's The Village Ballarat Road and another one in Moolap on the Bellarine Peninsula In Albury there was one called the "Stargazer" Coincidentally I live just across the road from where it used to be....... It's a housing estate now. The sign and the old kiosk were still there when we moved here 15 years ago. We had a short holiday to Albury when I was a child. I remember we saw "Pappillon" with Steve McQueen there, not knowing I would live across the road 40 years later.

Return to top of page · Post #: 13 · Written at 10:50:35 PM on 25 March 2020.
	Vintage Pete Location: Albury, NSW Member since 1 May 2016 Member #: 1919 Postcount: 2048
Great movie. One of his best and a true story apparently. We can just line up all our 50s TV sets a show movies there again. 😛

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