drive - ins

[Kranendonk]

Is there a swing set there?

Nope :/

 

[Willow]

Where was the one at Chullora?

In Chullora.

;-)

It was huge - twin screens. On the Hume Highway (aka Liverpool Rd) I recall. Edit: Pretty sure it was opposite the old railway yards.

Hard to believe that it's all but forgotten.

From a website featuring comments from a fellow called Bill Gray:

I became manager at the Chullora Drive-in in Western Sydney and stayed there for 12 years. It was the biggest drive-in in the Southern Hemisphere and had 2 screens; in effect it was two theatres. Apart from being the biggest it also took more money than any other drive-in in the world and it was also the only drive-in that allowed bikie gangs in. On Friday and Saturday nights there were two policemen controlling the traffic outside the entrance. We could get in 6 sessions a night – start on one screen when all the car spaces were taken; then start the second screen. By the time the first screening was over there were enough cars to fill it up again and so on.
On a night like that we had 3,900 cars through the place. The food sales were enormous - vast amounts of money changing hands and a weekend would see sales of 3,600 lbs (1630 kilos) of potato chips sold. I retired in 1981.

http://www.cinematographer.org.au/features/flashback/gray


Here's a page out of the SMH from 1971 with movie ads, including Chullora. http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...FEVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=beUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3526,1154488

There's also an ad for Skyline drive-ins down the bottom.

You just drag the little blue box around in the right column to navigate.

 

[roboshark]

Sone good memories there

 

[IanG]

With this thing about needing an FM Radio I'd take my cassette player that has a radio in it. (Simply cuz I don't wanna flatten the battery in the car by using the car radio) what frequency do you have to tune it into?

 

[TooheysNew]

The frequency they give you.

 

[nöyd]

Spent many a night at Heddon Greta, first memory was when they were showing Porky's and Porky's II, I would've been 9 or 10 so I was lucky they were kids movies. :sarcasm:

Later in my teens my mates and I would ride our pushies out there (I lived in Kurri for 25 years), they'd let us in for a few bucks and we'd sit on the swings or hang out around the kiosk to see such classics as Crocodile Dundee and some low budget aussie horror flick (the name escapes me, something about Blood).

But then in your late teens you drive out there with your girlfriend and you couldn't care less what the movie was. :lol:

Glad to hear it's still running though.

EDIT: Prety sure that aussie flick was called Blood Moon, and it was tripe lol

 

[IanG]

I'll be going up there in the next couple of weeks. Alice In Wonderland is showing as the first movie of the double feature.

 

[IanG]

I also got a damn flat battery......first time ever at the drivein

That's why it pays to have one of these things in your boot

 

[roboshark]

Yeah true. The owner though has one. He was telling me he gets about 4 ir 5 flat batt every night. He had me going again in minutes. I will be back up there in next few weeks again. When daylight savings ends they revert back to 3 movies a night

 

[Parra]

1980's drive in porno.

Imagine the uproar if anyone tried that today. It was common in the 80's.

Dundas drive-in. Good memories.

 

[Nevan_]

Yeah I remember going to the drive-in a few times at Gateshead. My parents took us there when we were kids for a few double features. I think the first one we went to was Gremlins followed by Night Patrol or something like that. Anyway I think my parents hoped we would be asleep by the second movie. The second trip we made was to see Footrot Flats and something else. I am sure we also went a few times to see one of the World Safari movies with Alby Mangels...hahaha remember him?
Anyway I think there used to be one here in Goulburn as well but it is long closed down.

I had no idea there was one in Gateshead. It must have been long before i lived there. Where abouts was it? Near Hunter Sports?

 

[IanG]

1980's drive in porno.

Imagine the uproar if anyone tried that today. It was common in the 80's.

Dundas drive-in. Good memories.

Really? Though were they just the wussy R rated Video Ezy pornos?

 

[roboshark]

I had no idea there was one in Gateshead. It must have been long before i lived there. Where abouts was it? Near Hunter Sports?

Over the other side of the road. In amongst where now stands industrial estate

 

[IanG]

You can also tell where the old turn off to the old Skyline Drive In at Lambton was too.

List of Open Drive Ins in Australia

 

[IanG]

Over the other side of the road. In amongst where now stands industrial estate

Is it in that vicinity where there are now streets called Metro Court and Skyline Way?

 

[roboshark]

Not sure of street name but makes sense as it was the metro at gateshead

 

[IanG]

Well I looked at Google Maps of that area and it was opposite Hunter Sports High as you described.

Looking forward to going to Heddon Greta on Saturday Night

Alice In Wonderland and The Blindside

 

[Parra]

Really? Though were they just the wussy R rated Video Ezy pornos?

They were tame by todays internet standards. But full nudity and a screen full of tits has a big impact when you show them on a drive-in screen.

 

[IanG]

They were tame by todays internet standards. But full nudity and a screen full of tits has a big impact when you show them on a drive-in screen.

Came across an old TV ad for the old Hanview Drive In in Griffith from 1979 recently. It was advertising a 5 movie marathon. All rated R

- Let's Play Sex
- Hell's Angels On Wheels
- Death Weekend
- Savage Sisters
- Shivvers

Makes me wonder if that was the kind of night you were referring to Gates Open 6:30pm, Show Time 7:30pm Session Ends 4am

 

[roboshark]

Came across an old TV ad for the old Hanview Drive In in Griffith from 1979 recently. It was advertising a 5 movie marathon. All rated R

- Let's Play Sex
- Hell's Angels On Wheels
- Death Weekend
- Savage Sisters
- Shivvers

Makes me wonder if that was the kind of night you were referring to Gates Open 6:30pm, Show Time 7:30pm Session Ends 4am

Hahaha...more like gates open 630, showtime 730, men in panelvans asleep at 731