European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Are occupied by the prime rib of the Ponderosa patronage members of the european Rodeo they Call it the Bull its the closest thing to a Gasthaus Stam Tisch the club Rodeo members pay half Price at the the club int the stage lighting washes the audience in blues and reds and occasional blasts from the a More stable illumination comes from the bar where Beer signs no Coors or Lone Star this is where the whiff of deutschland other illumination comes from Subtle lamps mounted on Wagon wheels that hang above the in the Ponderosa steakhouses Back in the such westernization of Wall Street corporation cuisine is but one wonders when the Wagon train pulls out for Al cozy niches huddle underneath a Wood canopy that circles the crowded As the night moves dance floor activity reaches a the spectators hoist their Beers and the noise is this is no place for quiet the music never its a Rowdy but its under Larry  have it any other forty four year old Larry Shaw sat at the desk in the ticket office drinking a Beer out of his private Stock and tapping his fingers on a he has curly red hair and Matching moustache and wears wire rimmed he Doest look anything like a the shelves next to him bristle with the trappings of his merchandising and advertising Genius club Ponderosa patches and Belt he claims his club makes but not a lot of Shaw retired As a warrant officer in May 1983 to run the in the late when Shaw was an the club had a reputation for there was at least one knifing a he now troublemakers get bounced with a permanent invitation not to Shaw said he also watches out for his intermittent employees mostly army members earning extra Money As waiters and waitresses on the know How hard their lives he i wont use them during the week because i know they have to get up Early in the morning to Shaw has about 30 intermittent workers and four person full time i dont have any background in this but its definitely an exercise in management Supply and and i Learned that in the in Shaw leaped up to answer the it was the third and the question was the same who playing tonight Shaw books his bands six months in a band out of was late Shaw seemed but one of his staff kept popping his head through the office door reminding him that they should Shaw the band showed Shaw maintains a constantly rotating Stock of records ordered from the top of the billboard charts All the not just a copy of the latest billboard Magazine is kept in the Shaw said he reaches out to All kinds of audiences and Calls the Urban Cowboy attraction asked if he caters specifically to he hemmed and hawed and said but in the first hour the club was Only two people asked for tickets in Shaw said he Only hires people who can speak English and added that his establishment is patterned after stateside country believe it or i dont i can do a pretty mean and not a bad but i cant handle the Cotton eyed waiter Jeff said people come for two germans come because its americans come because its a taste of he for 2 Don Mortimer of the 1st army div support its More like a this is where i come he said As he stood under the Bright lights outside that advertise club Ponderosa alongside the incongruous he is Texas and through the time the strains of All night Long came wafting Over the Cowboy hats gathered around the front door As their wearers watched a go and his German Girlfriend practice the Cotton eyed Joe in the parking Georg Wettlaufer and his wife Nora in their Kino enter in Lamm in focuses on american viewers Story and photo by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau chief Georg Wettlaufer has had a lifelong love affair with the Hes also fond of last summer he found a Way to Combine those two and since then More than service members and their families have stopped by to show their owns the Kino enter in Lamm in where he has an average of four movies running in their original English versions during any one were not talking obscure either these Are first run blockbusters such As Indiana Jones and the Temple of the killing Beverly Hills cop and and thanks to his business acumen and a helping hand from the armed forces recreation Wettlaufer is Able to obtain these movies usually Only Days after their american he recently held the european Premier screening of the new James Bond a View to a Only two Days after the film had its world debut in san Wettlaufer has owned the As Well As another movie theater in since but it was Only last year that he was Able to begin showing films in their English i was Able to convince the film companies that there Are a lot of americans who vacation Here who would come to see first run Wettlaufer arc backed Wettlaufer and the film companies Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom premiered at the Kino enter last july the first English language film to do in addition to the fact that a sizable american audience is usually on hand in Wettlaufer said another reason he can get new films so fast is that he charges regular comparable to admission rates in the United states although he does offer discounts to american forces card Wettlaufer said that he gets his share of germans in the but most of his customers Are about people have seen Beverly Hills which i started running in january and which is still i get a total of about customers a film companies recognize numbers like has been in the movie business since he was when he started out As a film projectionist in his Small Hometown near he made his Way to one of Europe film in eventually he became manager of 22 Heaters in including the which opened in 1964 and also shows English language but i was working for someone he i wanted to do something on my with his wife Nora and two aged 17 and he moved to Garmisch in 1980 and opened his two Heaters shortly the Kino enter has three Heaters one with 62 another with 86 and a 240seat main which has dolby stereo i also have real american buttered Wettlaufer said he even has fruit Flavoured Popcorn that he orders from a store in new As Well As original czechoslovakian Budweiser who is a staunch corporate member of the association of the said he prefers american audiences to German he said that during the first five frenzied minutes of a View to a when James Bond is pursued through an Arctic wasteland by soviet soldiers in a sequence packed with special the predominantly american audience went americans just get so excited about their he there the Best movie audiences in the Wettlaufer admission Price is in dollars for movies that Haven been released yet in after release he charges in German prices Are for for children age four through and free for children under a 50 cent reduction is available to All american forces card the Mark prices Are for adults and for its also for adults with american forces Wettlaufer also offers to place people on his weekly film schedule mailing just Send a postcard with your name and address on it to Kino enter in 8100 we have 800 or 900 people on the from All Over Schwabish even Wettlaufer the Kino enter is located just off the Marie Platz in downtown jury stripes Magazine