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Credit: Rick Tames Kathy Nesser

Added: 2/27/2002

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From a 1962 Motion Picture Herald

Credit: Richard M. Morse

Added: 4/30/2005

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Aerial view of former drive-in site

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Added: 8/8/2007

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Field

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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Overgrown former entrance road

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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Concrete slab left of one of the two ticket booths

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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Picture of both ticket booth foundations. In the foregound is the remnant of a torched off steel beam once used for holding the side panels of the screen

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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View towards 59th Ave. from the screen tower position. The entrance road is straight ahead where the bushes grow now

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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Main exit road

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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One of the ticket booth slabs

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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The screen tower has been installed on these steel bolts

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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Area of former ticket booths (see black and white picture for comparison)

Credit: Erwin Minder

Added: 8/15/2007

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I don't know if this is related but in the 50's there was a Thunderbird Drive in in Chandler, it was a restaurant. The photo is a copy of the Chandler Newspaper from 1959.

Credit: Chandler Arazonan

Added: 8/19/2008

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ariel view of theater.

Credit: Historicariels. Com

Added: 12/1/2012

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for a Comedy double feature playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1980. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for a Walt Disney double feature playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1977 The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for a double feature playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1981. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for the Walt Disney Comedy THE BOATNIKS playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1977. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for the Blockbuster JAWS plus a double feature playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1976. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for a double feature including the Blockbuster RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1981.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 7/4/2015

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for the first Star Trek sequel STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1982. This ad for the movie shows the theaters it played at the bottom. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Thea

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 3/12/2016

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for the Blockbuster JAWS plus a double feature playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1976. The Drive-In was owned by the Mann Theaters Company.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 3/12/2016

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Here is a Movie Ad from the AZ Republic for a double feature THE BORDER and the double feature DEATH HUNT with Charles Bronson playing at the Thunderbird Drive-In in 1981.

Credit: Richard Stoudt

Added: 3/12/2016

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