Lakewood Theatre
2027 Stewart Avenue SW,
Atlanta,
GA
30310
2027 Stewart Avenue SW,
Atlanta,
GA
30310
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Talk show host Mike Douglas,not Kirk’s son,Michael.Just to make it clear. Can’t believe you all didn’t play it. It was a UA movie,you said you all got all the UA product.
Burt and Mike Douglas,I need to check this movie out.
Dennis on your movie ad,“GATOR” was filmed in Georgia.Mike Douglas played our Govornor.
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….
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.