Outback Open Air Cinema at Coober Pedy
131-133 Hutchinson Street,
Coober Pedy,
SA
5723
131-133 Hutchinson Street,
Coober Pedy,
SA
5723
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Previous Names: Outback Open Air Cinema, Coober Pedy Drive-In
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The Outback Open Air Cinema was opened in 1965 by the Coober Pedy Miners Association, as a means of income for the Opal mining town. Some nights they would get over 500 cars attending, and it was not unusual for sticks of dynamite to be thrown at the screen if the film wasn’t to the audiences liking! There was even a slide shown at the beginning of the programme warning ‘Patrons - Explosives Are Not To Be Brought Into This Theatre - The Manager’. After going through a phase of screening adult porn films to the lusting male audience, and the introduction of television and VCR’s, it was closed in the early-1990’s, and fell into a state of disrepair.
It was refurbished in 2001, and re-opened as the Coober Pedy Drive-In. It is open all year round, screening films on Saturday nights, once a fortnight. It is one of only two drive-in theatres now operating in South Australia. By 2013, it had been re-named Outback Open Air Cinema at Coober Pedy and screens films every Saturday night. It was closed in November 2023 following damage incurred during a storm.
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Ken Roe
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Coober Pedy Drive-In slide:
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Interesting Ken first time I have seen a warning about no bombs in a theatre.
Me too,Ken.
Goggle aerial view 2012
Cooper Pedy is a opal mining town, hence the expolsives sign.
Sorry, i meant Coober Pedy.
This drive-in appeared on an episode of Let’s go(hosted by Grace Koh), series 2(episide number unknown?).
Now closed due to damage from a storm in November 2023, its currently unsure if they will repair and re-open.