This theatre is from my home town of Lake City, Florida and as a child I spent many years within it’s hallowed walls. I had not seen a picture of the old building so long and simply on a whim decided to google the Lake Theatre, Lake City, Florida. I was amazed to find this drawing of our lovely downtown. The building is actually on the corner of Orange St and Hernando as the map represents and all the original buildings in the picture with the exception of the large multi-storied on Marion Street have been replaced with a bank drive-in and parking lot. My cousin and I used to walk from our home nearby on Saturdays and spend 25cents each to enter the movies for cowboy matinees and a box of popcorn and a Coke to share… What wonderful memories! As for the 1964 info on the Gateway, I believe it was the other “sub-run Columbia Theatre” farther back to the north on Marion that was remodeled and brought back. Unfortunately, the Lake was torn down and the Gateway remains standing but nowadays I believe it is a church. There was another theatre in Lake City, well before the Lake and Columbia were built and owned by the McColskey family I believe. There were also two drive-in theatres; one was the Lunar, north of town in Lake City and to the South was the Lake City Drive-In. Thanks for this great website and for bringing a memory back to life for an old lady… Dell Anne Hines Afzal, Alachua, FL
This theatre is from my home town of Lake City, Florida and as a child I spent many years within it’s hallowed walls. I had not seen a picture of the old building so long and simply on a whim decided to google the Lake Theatre, Lake City, Florida. I was amazed to find this drawing of our lovely downtown. The building is actually on the corner of Orange St and Hernando as the map represents and all the original buildings in the picture with the exception of the large multi-storied on Marion Street have been replaced with a bank drive-in and parking lot. My cousin and I used to walk from our home nearby on Saturdays and spend 25cents each to enter the movies for cowboy matinees and a box of popcorn and a Coke to share… What wonderful memories! As for the 1964 info on the Gateway, I believe it was the other “sub-run Columbia Theatre” farther back to the north on Marion that was remodeled and brought back. Unfortunately, the Lake was torn down and the Gateway remains standing but nowadays I believe it is a church. There was another theatre in Lake City, well before the Lake and Columbia were built and owned by the McColskey family I believe. There were also two drive-in theatres; one was the Lunar, north of town in Lake City and to the South was the Lake City Drive-In. Thanks for this great website and for bringing a memory back to life for an old lady… Dell Anne Hines Afzal, Alachua, FL