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Reference Type The Age journal
Title The Big Screens Disappear
Author(s)Vin Maskell,Penelope Nelson
Issue Agenda
Town Melbourne
State VIC
Country Australia
Publication Date 02-09-1990
Citation Date
Page Number 12
Comments Article lists twenty-two drive-in cinema venues within Melbourne, Australia. Venue names are accompanied by their operating dates (opening and closing), followed by the subsequent reason for their closure or distruction. Most reasons surround the areas subdivision.

The list appears alongside an article titled "Where are they now? The suburban drive-ins" which is filled with various memories of their drive-in experiences from Songwriter Billy Baxton to Film buff John Flaus. The article also highlights infornmation regarding "the last drive-in"; Coburg.
Synopsis The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media. The Age currently has an average weekday circulation of 190,600, increasing to 275,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4 million).
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