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  • <p>Altona Drive-In Doherty’s Road, Melbourne, VIC</p>
            
              <h1>Hoyts promotion</h1>
            
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  • <p>Grantville Drive-In Orchid Drive, Grantville, VIC</p>
            
              <h1>1975</h1>
            
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  • <p>1975 aerial</p>
  • <p>1985 aerial</p>
  • <h1>The Sun Pictures opened on 9th December 1916 with the silent featurette Kissing Cup & Batchelor Brown’s Supper. It presents as a Picture Garden cinema, with deck-chair seating.</h1>
            
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  • <p>1975 aerial photo</p>
  • <p>Coffs Harbour Drive-In N. Boanbee Road and Pacific Highway, Coffs Harbour, NSW - 1981</p>
            
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  • <p>Coffs Harbour Drive-In N. Boanbee Road and Pacific Highway, Coffs Harbour, NSW - 1988</p>
            
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  • <p>Wagin Drive-In 27 Ballagin Street, Wagin, WA</p>
            
              <p>Photo - Long past Wagin Youth Centre Market</p>
            
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  • <p>Located on Louden Street at the northeast corner of Jennaberring Road. The Quairading Drive-In opened in 1966. The drive-in closed in the late-1980’s. The bio box was still there when last looked (and possibly the ramps, fences, entrance/exit roads?).</p>
            
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  • <p>Photo - Courtesy of Roy Mudge</p>
            
              <p>Located on Louden Street at the northeast corner of Jennaberring Road. The Quairading Drive-In opened in 1966. The drive-in closed in the late-1980’s. The bio box was still there when last looked (and possibly the ramps, fences, entrance/exit roads?).</p>
            
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  • <p>Pingelly Drive-In 3 Paragon Street, Pingelly, WA</p>
            
              <h1>1967</h1>
            
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  • <p>Pingelly Drive-In Stone Street, Pingelly, WA 6308 –</p>
            
              <h1>Benito & Anna Parri legendary cinema entrepreneurs.</h1>
            
              <p>Photo: The Parri family</p>
            
              <p>Consolidated Theatres leased the Pingelly drive-in to Benito & Anna Parri. Both Benito & Anna were well versed in the running of cinemas and international live promotion. The Pingelly drive-in proved to be popular with the local residents and traded very well. Benito was often seen at the drive-in operating the projection booth. As time progressed, distance and increased business commitments became a problem for the Parri family and the drive-in was returned to Consolidated Theatres.</p>
            
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  • <h1>Rob Dale writes - A couple of guys went to the Pingelly Drive-in in one of these, bench seat with esky in the middle.</h1>
            
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  • <h1>The Devil at the Pingelly Drive-In</h1>
            
              <h1>Go to Youtube:</h1>
            
              <h1>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvNRNXpklZY</h1>
            
              <p>Remember drive-ins? Kids, families, teenagers, and couples all went to the drive-in for many different reasons, and seeing the movie was not always one of them.</p>
            
              <p>Peter Narducci, a former projectionist at the Pingelly Drive-In, recounts a night of pranks, adventure, and terrified kids at a screening of horror movies Dracula and Tales From The Crypt.</p>
            
              <p>With torch in hand and a pack of kids behind him, Peter was brave enough to leave his projection tower to find out what was lurking in the dark at the edge of the drive-in.</p>
            
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  • <p>Pingelly Drive-In 3 Paragon Street, Pingelly, WA</p>
            
              <h1>The Last picture show 1988</h1>
            
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  • <p>1974 aerial photo.</p>
  • <p>Oasis Drive-In 175 North-West Coastal Highway, Wonthella, WA - 1967</p>
            
              <p>Newspaper advert - The Geraldton Guardian Sat Sept 2, 1967</p>
            
              <p>Posted by Geoff King on LOST GERALDTON</p>
            
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  • <p>1970 aerial photo.</p>
  • <p>December 1971 photo.</p>
  • <p>1976 aerial</p>
  • <p>April 16th, 1954</p>
  • <p>1988 aerial photo of the former site.</p>
  • <p>The Open Air Cinema closed in 1988. The town was closed and cleared back to bush in about the early or mid-
              1990’s.</p>
            
              <h1>Projection booth</h1>
            
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  • <p>1970 aerial photo</p>
  • <p>Announcing grand opening</p>