Drive-In Cinema | Melbourne 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.

Hoyts
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, Wodonga

Village
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 Warrnambool

Other
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, Yarrawonga

DriveIn Nostagla

For more information on drive-ins, check out these websites:

drive-insdownunder.com.au

cinematreasures.org

TODAY

→ www.onlymelbourne.com.au

❊ Also See.. ❊

➼ Dromana 3 Drive-In


➼ Coburg Drive-In

Outdoor Cinema (Summer)

The new outdoor cinema are roof top cinemas and open air cinemas operating in the summer months.

Melbourne Outdoor Cinema Guide



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