1982: Driveworld
December 11, 2024
By AHNZ
Today in Christchurch history, 11 December, 1982, the opening of Drive World at QE2 Park.
Colin Wood established Driveworld from a “vision to create a place where families could come and Drive Scale Model Machines on scale model Roads with Stop and Giveway Signs. Also Miniature Earthmoving Equipment.”
No surprise. That period of the 80s was physical and adventurous. Then it gave way to a Child Protective 1990s (Satanic Moral Panic, Stackhats,…)
Unfortunately Driveworld had to close in 2000.
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Image ref. Driveworld Memories, Meta (2022,) AHNZ enhanced (2024)
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