Drive-In Cinema | Melbourne |
On February 18 1954, an advertisement appeared in the Melbourne Sun: "Opening tonight at 6:30 Australia's first drive-in theater". The Skyline in Burwood became the first of more than 330 drive-ins that were built across Australia.
By 1966, there were 19 drive-ins cinemas in Greater Melbourne to a peak of 60 throughout Victoria. For many, they remain a fond nostalgia memory.
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Altona - Doherty's Road, Altona Broadmeadows - Sydney Road/Hume Hwy, Broadmeadows Bulleen - Bulleen Road, Bulleen Burwood - Burwood Highway (near Elgar Road) Burwood Maribyrnong Sunset - Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong Oakleigh - Old Dandenong Road Oakleigh Preston Skyline - Plenty Road Reservoir Wantirna - Cnr Mountain Hwy and Boronia Road, Wantirna Wodonga Skyline - Old Hume Hwy, WodongaVillage
Ballarat Village - Ballarat Brooklyn - Leakes Rd, Brooklyn Clayton Metro Twin Cnr Blackburn Rd and Wellington Rd Clayton Coburg (still operating - see below) Newlands Road Coburg Colac Shandon - Colac Croydon - Whitehorse Road Croydon Dandenong Lunar (closed 2023) 115 South Gippsland Hwy, Dandenong Essendon - Bulla Road/Melrose Drive, Tullamarine Frankston Starlite - Skye Road Frankston Maryborough Village Moorabbin Village - Off Keys Road, Moorabbin Morwell Panoramic - Off Keys Road, Moorabbin Preston Northland Olympic Twin - Murray Road, Preston Reservoir - Settlement Road, Thomastown Rowville - Stud Road, Rowville Toorak (Taronga) - Toorak Road, East Hawthorn (now Coles offices) Warrnambool Shandon - Princes Hwy WarrnamboolOther
Bairnsdale - Bairnsdale Ballarat Skyline- Ballarat Benalla - Benalla Bendigo - Bendigo Birchip - Birchip Casterton Coachline - Portland Road, Casterton Cobram Moonlight - Murray Valley Hwy Cobram Dromana 3 - 113 Nepean Highway Dromana (still operating - see below) Echuca River-Vu - Echuca Frankston - Skye Road Geelong Bell Post Hill Village - Ballarat Road, Bell Post Hill Geelong Geelong Moolap Star - Moolap Station Road, Moolap, Geelong Grantville - Grantville Hamilton Village - Hamilton Horsham Mota-Vu - Horsham Inverloch - Inverloch Kerang Parkline - Centre of Kerang Racetrack, Kerang Leongatha - South Gippsland Hwy, Leongatha Metro Twin - Clayton Mildura Crossroads - The Crossroads, Mildura Mildura Sixteenth Street - 16th Street, Mildura Moe Fairsky - Morwell Panoramic Portland Coachline Robinvale Valley Sale Swan Lake - Princes Hwy Sale Sandringham - Tulip Street Sandringham Seymour Sunset - Puckapunyal Road, Seymour Shepparton Twilight - Goulbourn Valley Hwy (Melbourne Rd), Shepparton Stawell Village - Centre of the trotting track! Stawell Sunset Maribyrnong Sunshine Village - Northumberland Road, off Ballarat Road, Sunshine Swan Hill - Murray Valley Hwy, Beverford Terang - O'Conners Lane, Terang Traralgon Village - Princes Hwy, Btwn Traralgon and Morwell Wangaratta - Hume Hwy, Wangaratta Warragul Twilite - Copelands Yarrawonga Lakeside - Murray Valley Hwy, YarrawongaDriveIn Nostagla
For more information on drive-ins, check out these websites:
drive-insdownunder.com.au cinematreasures.orgTODAY
Three screens, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
For a night of good old fashioned movie fun, bring your family or a carload of mates to the Village Drive-In and watch mo.. Show More..
The Dromana Drive In is the perfect place to take in a film and enjoy the nostalgia of a Classic 60's Drive-In. The original 1961 screen is the earliest remaining in Victoria, stil.. Show More..
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ Drive-In Cinema | Melbourne
❊ Also See... ❊
➼ Coburg Drive-In
➼ Dromana 3 Drive-In
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