Re: Favor to ask

["Tom" <gunzel3801@optusnet.com.au>]

there was a drive in theatre here in Tamworth for many years.
does this help?

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Tom


Peter Berrett <pberrett@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> This is not a rail related post but I ask your tolerance for reasons that
> will become apparent.
>
> I have an interest in Drive-in Theatres and in particular Victorian
drive-in
> theatres. As you gunzellers travel all across the countryside spotting
> trains it seems likely that you have visited many country towns and seen
or
> have even visited various drive-in theatres in years gone by. In this
> respect your gunzelling experience is highly relevant to my question.
>
> Here is a list of known Victorian Drive-in Theatres (most now closed)
>
> Victoria
>
> Altona
> Bairnsdale
> Ballarat Skyline
> Ballarat Village
> Benalla
> Bendigo
> Birchip
> Broadmeadows
> Brooklyn
> Bulleen
> Burwood
> Clayton
> Casterton
> Cobram
> Coburg
> Colac
> Croydon
> Dandenong
> Dromana
> Essendon
> Echuca
> Frankston
> Geelong Village
> Geelong Star
> Grantville
> Hamilton
> Horsham
> Inverloch
> Kerang
> Leongatha
> Maribyrnong
> Maryborough
> Mildura Crossroads
> Mildura Sixteenth St
> Moe
> Moorabbin
> Morwell
> Oakleigh
> Portland
> Preston Hoyts
> Preston Northland
> Reservoir
> Robinvale
> Rowville
> Sale
> Sandringham
> Seymour
> Shepparton
> Stawell
> Sunshine
> Swan Hill
> Terang
> Toorak
> Traralgon
> Wangaratta
> Wantirna
> Warragul
> Warrnambool
> Wodonga
> Yarrawonga
>
> The list is taken from the following page (which I highly recommend for
> those so interested).
>
> http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/australian/vic1.htm
>
> Are you aware of any drive-in theatres that are missing from this list? If
> so I would be grateful if you could post a reply. My reason for asking is
> that when one looks at a Victorian map one see large areas of the state
(eg
> around Warracknabeal, Mansfield, Orbost, St Arnaud) which don't appear to
> have had a drive-in. I feel sure that one or two have been missed. It
would
> help the author of the page and myself no end to find one that we have not
> yet heard about.
>
> By way of making some sort of tentative link with railways for this post I
> am inclined to add that I have noticed that there is some similarity in
> one's interest in closed railways to one's interest in closed drive-ins.
> Since a very young age I have always had a fascination with major services
> (eg railways) that once performed a valuable service for the community but
> due to changes in society have outlived their usefulness and have
> disappeared but have left their mark on the landscape, I can't drive past
an
> abandoned railway without getting curious about when it ran, where it went
> to and when it was closed. Ditto for drive-in theatres.
>
> Finally it is interesting that the idea of trains and films were never
> combined (to my knowledge) to create a train drive-in theatre ie a train
> would take you a screen where you could watch the film from the train
window
> or alternatively hop out and watch from some seats near the screen. Could
be
> a unique idea for a train historical society to try as a way of
> differentiating their service from other historical societies. The
Train-In
> Theatre!
>
> cheers Peter
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