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Originally Posted by koputai
Great stuff!
I used to work at a place that was famous for its small cinema (400 seats) but in the 9 years I worked there it went from showing about 3 shows a year in '91 to zero by '95, left idle for a few years, then all the lovely projection gear, 2 projectors similar to the ones in your photo's and a smaller projector for commercials, were ripped out in '98. It was a real shame to see it all go, I used to spend a lot of time in the booth admiring the old gear.
It's great to see not all these great old machines have been destroyed.
Cheers,
Jason.
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i think that the projectors came form the carrignbah drivein
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Originally Posted by Ric
What a fantastic experience.
The last time I was at the Drive-in was in the late 70's.
I always remember the experience of the open air Cinemas in the mining towns of W.A, a projector and a screen on the local oval, byo chair, beer and food.
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in the late 80's used to go to the drive in with a long wheel base landrover with a full rooftop deck - we used to park at the back and have deck chairs up there with external speakers (you could clip on the aerial to get radio (stereo))