Opened on 29/7/1959. Closed in february 1990 with “She-devil”. Motavu Drive used to be called Kalkee Road. There is a photo on the Drive-insdownunder.com.au that shows the former snack bar building that is now the same building that is the house.
Most of the ramps are still there and the screen frame too.. Woolemi Place might be part the entrance road of the drive-in. The site is now used for secure airport parking(overnight or longer?) for the Gold Coast Airport(Ezy Parking) and a bus service to and from the Gold Coast Airport too. The building used by Ezy Parking on the drive-in site might the drive-in’s snack bar and bio box building?
Subiaco Oval is being demolished(july to september 2019) except for the heritage listed gates, some of the grandstands,the grass footy pitch and the footpath and Sandover Medal paving stones outside the footy grounds site. The site will have houses/apartments around the oval on some of the three sides of the oval. On the eastern side of the oval they are a building a new school(Bob Hawke College), the school may use the oval for school sport too!?
Was it near Edwards Air Force Base?
First time i have heard of that type of cinema!?
Opened with “Champion” and “The big cat”.
One of tne screens(screen 3?) in the now closed Picadilly Theatre in Perth, Western Australia, Australia was a reverse theatre too.
Does it only screen b grade movies?
Is it known how the fire in the screen tower started?
Opened on 29/7/1959. Closed in february 1990 with “She-devil”. Motavu Drive used to be called Kalkee Road. There is a photo on the Drive-insdownunder.com.au that shows the former snack bar building that is now the same building that is the house.
There will be a drive-in sleep in at this drive-in on 18/10/2019. The website is https://www.driveinsleepin.org.au
The exit road might still be there too?
Most of the ramps are still there and the screen frame too.. Woolemi Place might be part the entrance road of the drive-in. The site is now used for secure airport parking(overnight or longer?) for the Gold Coast Airport(Ezy Parking) and a bus service to and from the Gold Coast Airport too. The building used by Ezy Parking on the drive-in site might the drive-in’s snack bar and bio box building?
Opened with “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad World”.
Is the sign still there?
Opened as Monica with “Old Maid”.
The movies screening in the drive-in’s 50th anniversary week was “Godzilla”(at 9.30pm), “Deep impact”(at 11.45pm), and “Godzilla”(again at 2.00am).
Briefly renamed Paterson’s Stadium before renamed Domain Stadium.
The video screen that was at Subiaco Oval was sold to the Penrith Panthers NRL team and installed at their home ground.
Subiaco Oval is being demolished(july to september 2019) except for the heritage listed gates, some of the grandstands,the grass footy pitch and the footpath and Sandover Medal paving stones outside the footy grounds site. The site will have houses/apartments around the oval on some of the three sides of the oval. On the eastern side of the oval they are a building a new school(Bob Hawke College), the school may use the oval for school sport too!?
This was the the twin theatre in the World built around a projector running on rails between the indoor theatre and the outdoor picture gardens.
Is the name CMX short for anything?
Opened(on different screens) with “Mobsters”, “Another you”, “My girl” and “Star Trek VI the undiscovered country”.
Opened on 19/10/1050 with “Broken arrow”.
Opened on screen 1 with “The iron giant”, screen 2 with “Chill Factor”, screen 3 with “Runaway bride”, and on screen 4 with “Mystery Men”.
First drive-in theatre and cinema, i have heard of named after a Saint(i think?)!!
I think the site is now a medical center(Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical center and a big multi story car park)?
Opened as the Okla Drive-in on 6/4/1957 with “1984” and “To Hell and back”.