Caringbah drive-in is now a shopping mall. The North Ryde Skyline, on Lane Cove Road, accommodated 620 cars and operated for 30 years from 1956.
The Newcastle Skyline closed in June 1985. This was followed by a Skyline in Newcastle in December 1956 at a cost of $200,000, with a capacity for 722 cars and a holding area for a further 420. The Skyline in Bass Hill on Liverpool Road opened in November 1956, with a 724 car capacity and until its closure in September 2007 was Australia's oldest continually operating drive-in theatre. They opened simultaneously on Wednesday 24 October 1956, with Frenchs Forest screening 3 Ring Circus and Dundas screening The Racers. The Skyline Drive-ins at Frenchs Forest and Dundas were Sydney's first. However, on 3 March a severe storm saw the screen damaged and it did not reopen. On 2 February 2018, the Southern Cross Drive-In theatre opened just over the ACT border in Queanbeyan. The ACT had two drive-in theatres, the Starlight in Watson (opened in January 1957 and closed in 1993), which has now been redeveloped for medium-density housing, and the Sundown at Narrabundah (opened in 1968 and closed in 1984), which is now a motel and private housing village.
Drive in movie theatre portable#
It includes portable operations in which patrons can either drive or sit down to see a movie outdoors.įormer Starlight drive-in sign, first neon sign in Canberra and the only drive-in sign in Australia that is still in its original location.
The following is a listing of Australia's remaining open drive-in theatres. The remaining drive-ins provide a glimpse of what was a very popular pastime in the 1950s and 1960s. This opened in 1967 and still operates every summer, the projector has been upgraded to digital to show the latest movies.Īlong with a few metropolitan operations, there are a number of drive-in theatres serving remote communities such as Jericho in Queensland. The longest running Drive In Theatres in Western Australia that is still open today is located in Dongara. It was opened in 1961 and has never closed. In 2002 the Rodeo Drive-in at Mareeba, near Cairns, re-opened, with the Tivoli Drive-in near Ipswich re-opening in 2008.ĭromana Drive In is the longest continually running in Australia. In more recent times the former Dandenong Panoramic Drive-in, in Victoria, has been reopened as the Lunar Drive-in Theatre and now has four screens making it Australia's largest drive-in theatre with the most screen choice. In the 1990s, the Coburg Drive-in Theatre in Melbourne was expanded to three screens, as was the Dromana Drive-in Theatre. Many have since closed with the large amounts of land taken up by drive-ins being sold off to build houses or shopping centres, although in recent years a number of drive-in theatres have reopened or expanded the number of screens available. It was the first of 330 drive-in theatres that would open across Australia. The first American-style drive-in theatre to open in Australia was the Skyline in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood on 18 February 1954.
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