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One last look at Arlington's Thunderbird Motor Hotel and Dinner Theatre

 The pool at the former Thunderbird Motor Hotel and Dinner Theatre in Arlington is filled with rainwater and algae. The hotel, which opened around 1959, was sold several times and then condemned by the city.
Jacksonville Daily Record
The pool at the former Thunderbird Motor Hotel in Arlington is filled with rainwater and algae. The hotel, which opened around 1959, was sold several times and then condemned by the city.

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.

Read the rest of this story at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a WJCT News partner. The Daily Record also has a separate photo gallery.