Nicholas Bushalla was the proprietor of the Duke of York as well. The Target country store is to the left of the two story building in the photo above(the name is on the top of the building in about the middle).
There is also a 24 hour gym(Jetts) at the back of the building(Mint street side). The Blockbuster video store closed in(2015 or 2016?). The video store area is now empty(even the signs are gone)! The gym is still open at the back!
The Cinecentre building(as of May 2016) has had the signs taken off the outside of the building, and scaffolding put up outside the entire building. There is a plan to build a hotel(QT Hotel?) on the site, unknown if the cinema building is going to be demolished or made part of the hotel building?
The address is 62 Bayley Street, Coolgardie. The museum is the Goldfields Exhibition Museum. The Coolgardie Town Hall also contains the Coolgardie Visitor Centre.
The roof of the building can seen on Google Earth(it’s the round building!). Some of the building can be seen on Instant Google Street view from Salmon Gums Road around the intersection of Irish Mulga Drive!
Correction – Coolgardie Town Hall and Gardens is on the north side of Bayley Street between Lefroy Street and Hunt Street. The town hall is also a museum and a church(name unknown?).
The entrance of the drive-in is off a side road(unnamed?) going north, and there is a(power sub-station?) on the right hand corner of the intersection!
I think the Theatre Royal building(before possibly been moved to 85/93 Lindsay Street) may have been on the corner of Woodward Street and Hunt Street where those two heritage markers are(next to a house)!
There is a Photo of the Dowerin Drive-in(mostly the screen) in the book “ Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt”(by brad rimmer).
Plantagenet Hall is on Muir street(north west corner of Albany Highway). Torbay is a small town 20 kilometres(12 miles) west of Albany.
The first Hall is now a surgery for the town.
The Clayton drive-in(and Clayton Road) might have been named after John Edawrd Clayton, a Narrogin farmer and(Gallipoli veteran?).
Nicholas Bushalla was the proprietor of the Duke of York as well. The Target country store is to the left of the two story building in the photo above(the name is on the top of the building in about the middle).
There is also a 24 hour gym(Jetts) at the back of the building(Mint street side). The Blockbuster video store closed in(2015 or 2016?). The video store area is now empty(even the signs are gone)! The gym is still open at the back!
I think the picture gardens area is behind the Lesser Hall(left hand side of the town hall)?
There is a photo of the Lake Grace Town Hall on the wall of Rosie’s Cafe(26 Stubbs Street, Lake Grace).
The Capitol Cinema reopened as a cinema in 2010, and may still be operating?
The Rainbow City Cinema closed in January or February 2014, and reopened in early June 2014!
Is this cinema possibly the highest cinema in the World?
I think the name comes from being near the International date Line!
Has Star Wars been shown here?
The Cinecentre building(as of May 2016) has had the signs taken off the outside of the building, and scaffolding put up outside the entire building. There is a plan to build a hotel(QT Hotel?) on the site, unknown if the cinema building is going to be demolished or made part of the hotel building?
The address is 62 Bayley Street, Coolgardie. The museum is the Goldfields Exhibition Museum. The Coolgardie Town Hall also contains the Coolgardie Visitor Centre.
Two of the stores there now are Pottery barn, and Pottery barn For kids. I don’t remember the names of the other three stores?
The roof of the building can seen on Google Earth(it’s the round building!). Some of the building can be seen on Instant Google Street view from Salmon Gums Road around the intersection of Irish Mulga Drive!
Does anyone know why the drive-in was called Swap Shop?
The remaining ramps and (concession/bio-box building?) is behind the Orana Cinemas building to the right of the building!
Correction – Hardened convicts(not hardened convits!)
The video library(old dome concession building) is called K-Assaad Video Library & Secondhand Shop(10 Irish Mulga Drive, Kamblada West).
The gardens is now the park to the right of the town hall.
Correction – Coolgardie Town Hall and Gardens is on the north side of Bayley Street between Lefroy Street and Hunt Street. The town hall is also a museum and a church(name unknown?).
The entrance of the drive-in is off a side road(unnamed?) going north, and there is a(power sub-station?) on the right hand corner of the intersection!
I think the Theatre Royal building(before possibly been moved to 85/93 Lindsay Street) may have been on the corner of Woodward Street and Hunt Street where those two heritage markers are(next to a house)!