KTY Drive-In
Sutherland Street,
Trayning,
WA
6488
Sutherland Street,
Trayning,
WA
6488
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Located on Sutherland Street opposite the wheat bins. The KTY Drive-In(named for Korrelocking, Trayning, and Yalbinning) opened on 23rd April 1965 with Walt Disney’s “Big Red” & Gordon Scott in “Tarzan’s Fight For Life”. The drive-in closed in the early-1970', and reopened in 1973. The drive-in closed in 1981 and was sold in 1986. The buildings are now used by the Central Wheatbelt Riding Club and the screen and ramps have been removed.
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The Trayning Drive-in was opened by the Hon. George Cornell MLA.
The gate(or gates?) And possibly the fences are still there.
The KTY Drive-in open(first time) on 23/4/1965 with “Big Red(Walt Disney Film)” and “Tarzan’s fight for life”.
The screen and ramps may still there? Unknowm about the ticket booth? The speaker poles and speakers are gone.
The KTY Drive-in also had sit-in deckchairs for walk in patrons(number of deckchairs unknown?).
Both gates and some fences are still there. The ticket box and entrance and exit roads and some ramps are still there too.
Closed in 1972 and reopened in 1973. Operated by Clarence(Paddy) Baker(1965 to 1972). Operated from 1973 to 1981 by Clarence(Paddy) Baker and Johm Marsden. Screen removed in 1987.