Wagin Drive-In
27 Ballagin Street,
Wagin,
WA
6315
27 Ballagin Street,
Wagin,
WA
6315
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Exhibitor was Paddy Baker(Wagin Drive-in P/L)(1963 to 1970’s), Frank & Betty Terry(mid 1970’s to 1983).
I think what is left of the Wagin Drive-in might have been incorparated into the Wagin Historical Village?
27 Ballagin St is a better address.
The ticket booth was heritage listed on 22/7/1997.
240 cars.
I think the ramps are still there?
I think the exit may have been on Rifle N Street(the arch over it is now gone i think?)?
I think the screen may been gone too. The snack bar and bio box is still there, and the fences and entrance(and exit?) roads and gates. The building on the spot where the screen may have been is possibly part of the Wagin Historical Village? The projectors are now at The Betty Terry Memorial Theatre(formally called Little Gem Theatre) in Wagin.
Google Map street view from 2008 shows the ticket booth intact, but the property itself is covered in trees and has a few buildings on it.
I do not see the screen as a building seems to be in its place. So, the drive-in does not appear to be intact.
The main entrance was on Rifle N Street. The drive-in site is next to the Wagin Historical Village, which may own the site!!?
The Wagin Drive-in opened by Invitation only(with a few vacancies for the general public) on 12/9/1963 opened by Hon. Syd Thompson M.L.C. . The first actual public screening was on 13/9/1963(with the same programme).