A splintered DJ booth deck is perched next to the pool at the once-happening Thunderbird Motor Hotel and Dinner Theatre along the Arlington Expressway.

The pool is green, filled with rainwater, fuzzy algae and floating junk.

North Florida Waste Management & Demolition is removing the remnants of what began as a venue in Arlington, just over the Mathews Bridge from Downtown, that saw dinner theater performers, weddings and rehearsal dinners, parties and other celebrations in a property with two pools and a signature bar.

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