Sure enough, a March 1974 article about concerned neighbors identified Rick Glaus as the manager. The Glaus family bought the Dependable in the late 1960s from original owner Pat Springer.” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote in 2010 that “Glaus, 56, … operates the drive-in with his son, Jonathan.
The Pittsburgh City Paper wrote that Rick Glaus had “run the Dependable since 1968”. Springer was still around in 1955, so I guess that worked out somehow. Springer sued the other two couples for leasing the drive-in to Ernest Stern in June 1951. (Although a 1951 newspaper report called Howard Benson the owner, I’m guessing he was the manager.) In April 1952, Robert J. It was reportedly owned by three couples, the Hofackers, the Marcuses, and the Springers.
The single-screen Dependable opened in late June 1950, then was heavily damaged by a flood a week later. Thanks to the miracle of I-79, it took me less than two hours to drive from the Sunset Drive-In Theater just south of Shinnston WV to the Dependable Drive-In in Moon PA. It’s Day 320 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey.
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