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AT THE DARWIN DRIVE-IN by Patti Izod

arwin, an amazing place, did its best to strategically to get most of the picture on the perimeter fencing due to it being destroyed in
Dget back to normality after almost being cyclone damaged screen, which sported a Tracy, sneaking in so as not to wake my
wiped off the face of the earth by Cyclone huge hole over to one side. We lifted the back parents whom we told many years later of our
Tracy in 1974. The Darwin Drive-in at window and dropped the tail gate and hung story.
Coconut Grove stayed a favourite, as families the huge grey speaker on the drivers door. We
could rock up there with BBQ's, bean bags, leaned back on pillows, sea breezes sifting We still laugh about it 35 years on.✶
eskies and sneaking one or two children in the through the open tailgate, being with the love
boot to save money. of my life eating Jaffa's. It couldn’t be any Ed note: During its lifetime, the drive in has
better than this. Sadly, I can’t recall the movie. been known as the Nightcliff, the Paspalis
Being teenagers, after a busy weekend my and the Darwin Drive-in. It is now a housing
boyfriend and I took ourselves off to the The sound of birds whistling and traffic woke estate.
drive-in on a Sunday evening. We reversed us up. It was obvious that the staff didn’t go
the Holden HG panel van into our chosen around to get people moving after the film. Images:
spot, this having been thought out Our escape was made easy, as there was no Northern Territory Library

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