While in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Luke AFB in Glendale, Arizona between 1966 and 1969, I worked for awhile part-time at this theater in it’s snack bar. It was enjoyable. The staff was great. We worked hard but had many laughs at night’s end. I became life-long friends with it’s manager of eighteen years whose name is Dick Ahlbrandt. Dick worked for his company for an entire career of nearly forty years and was especially fond of the Thunderbird.
After the Thunderbird, my friend opened a brand-new “four-plex” in Mesa for the company and finished his working life after opening a brand new super-plex for them there. The guy, to this day, is an avid industry observer. We speak almost daily about films. Neither one of us seem to be able to get “the movies” out of our blood.
Yeah, the Thunderbird Drive-in holds fond memories for many of us!
While in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Luke AFB in Glendale, Arizona between 1966 and 1969, I worked for awhile part-time at this theater in it’s snack bar. It was enjoyable. The staff was great. We worked hard but had many laughs at night’s end. I became life-long friends with it’s manager of eighteen years whose name is Dick Ahlbrandt. Dick worked for his company for an entire career of nearly forty years and was especially fond of the Thunderbird.
After the Thunderbird, my friend opened a brand-new “four-plex” in Mesa for the company and finished his working life after opening a brand new super-plex for them there. The guy, to this day, is an avid industry observer. We speak almost daily about films. Neither one of us seem to be able to get “the movies” out of our blood.
Yeah, the Thunderbird Drive-in holds fond memories for many of us!