European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Has a stake in country music 5 Paul Armatoski spins fhe and some tunes at the Story and photos by Tony Nauroth Nurnberg Bureau chief the front door of the club Ponderosa leads to a time one step and the neat German Homes on Felsen Strasse in Nurnberg Are replaced by Texas Border town Saloon and the sound system booms out the Back beat of Cotton eyed its american comfortable Here a Refuge for Cowboy soldiers looking for and women looking for but its really not a Cowboy joint too much tolerance for any kind of popular and any Brand of As Long As theres no club Ponderosa is an american Refuge with just a slight whiff of deutschland in the Between sets of rocking country 5 Paul Armatoski by Day a bridging specialist with the 16th engr in spins Lionel Richie All night Long in the Well equipped electronics Booth perched in a Corner above the dance he apologizes for playing the my wife gives me hell for some of the music i he Shes he stopped to introduce a Billy Ocean then the Guys Are the German girls Are Rock n my dad was a far boy and my mom is from the ill play Armatoski described the strategy behind his song which he said must move smoothly Between pop and its a neat Little first of i do this because its the dancers Are dancing and the spectators Are when the dancers finish they drink More than the that earns More Money for the which Means More Money for which gives me More traffic is heavy on the stomping grounds the dance floor that looks like a loading its big enough to pull a Semi up to but elbows still manage to find its a fast track for speedy two steppers who squirt Between the slower moving romantic a multifaceted mirrored Ball spins above them strewing diamonds of Light across the stage to Ricochet off belly size Belt about half the people on stage have heavy Metal key chains More like tire chains looping from their several Are attached to d thick Metal loops used by soldiers for rappelling Down four Corners its a group dance where the hoofers on stage face in the same stick their hands in their hip and do a kind of Western Jig with their its one of the dances taught every tuesday night at the it seems like All movement is by its like a cattle drive through Abilene with nobody Ramr Odding the Down in the Corner next to the several tables retired warrant officer Larry Shaw owns the one of the main attractions at the Ponderosa is the Opportunity to dance to Homegrown 8 stripes Magazine jury