Lakewood Theatre

Atlanta, GA

1723 Lakewood Avenue SE

, Atlanta, GA 30315 United States

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Status:	Closed
Screens:	Twin
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	900
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild, & Paschel

The Storey circuit's Lakewood Theatre was the last single screen theatre to be erected in southeast Atlanta. It opened in 1967 and was initially equipped with a spectacular wide screen and state of the art sound system. These features were lost when the theatre was split in half during the early-1970's and converted into a twin cinema. As business dropped around the adjoining outside mall, so went the traffic at the Lakewood. The theatre was shuttered in 1980 and was still standing vacant at the turn of the century.

Contributed by Jack Coursey

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Great theather for Low budget Horror/kung fu movies. The theather still stands along with the shopping Center but it looks like a post nucluer fallout. Very sad to see it like that.

posted by brazilianjiujitsu on Dec 16, 2005 at 6:51am

In its day the Lakewood was a good place to see a movie without having to go way out. Unfortunately many parts of the stip center, the old Stewart-Lakewood, once the Lenox Square of the southside, are completely gutted out. What a shame for a once good theater.

posted by J.F.B. on Feb 14, 2006 at 2:52am

As far as I can remember the Lakewood stayed open until the late 1980s. The last movie to appear on the marquee was "Shocker" which dates to 1989. At the time, the Lakewood was not even advertising in the AJC so it musy have been an independent.

posted by J.B. on Nov 5, 2008 at 4:17pm

There were two Lakewood Theatres: the original with a seating capacity of around 165 was located at 1725 Lakewood Ave SE and was in operation between 1940 and 1950. The last Lakewood Theatre was located at 2027 Stewart Ave SW, had a seating capacity close to 800 and was in operation between 1969 and 1985. Both have been demolished.

posted by JackCoursey on Dec 1, 2008 at 7:11pm

About three weeks ago I went to see one of my students bowl at the bowling alley in what was once Woolco department store adjacent to the old theater. The part of the shopping center that was the theater is still there but it appears to be completely sealed off. You cannot tell where the entrance was if you did not already know where it was.

The whole shopping center area is closed off and looks like a bombed out town.

It is painful to see what once was a prosperous shopping center go down so badly.

posted by J.B. on Feb 16, 2009 at 4:32pm

Lakewood Twin movie ad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24391992@N00/3602734852/

posted by Dennis Whitefield on Jun 6, 2009 at 9:33pm

I gave the manager a couple of weeks off when the Storey Chain owned the place. This was in the early 80's and we had midnight shows every night. A long time manager......Cliff....operated it for a few years....

posted by franklinsweeney on Sep 21, 2009 at 3:49pm

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