Lake Theatre

322 E. Main Street,
Lakeland, FL 33801

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Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc.

Previous Names: Lakeland Theatre

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1948 photo courtesy of The Lakeland Library.

Opened as the Lakeland Theatre in 1928. In the 1941 & 1943 editions of the Film Daily Yearbook the name had been changed to Lake Theatre and it was listed as ‘Closed’ and owned by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary E.J. Sparkes.

The Lake Theatre was finally closed on January 11, 1963 with Don Megowan in “Creation of the Humanoids” & Sergey Stolyarov in “The Magic Voyage of Sinbad” (aka Sadko). It was demolished around 1970.

Contributed by Lost Memory, Ken Roe

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 30, 2008 at 8:19 pm

This information is found on the site that provided Lost Memory’s photo of 7/13/07:

The Lake Theater was located at 322 East Main Street across from the Lakeland Terrace Hotel. The building housing the theater was built in the early 1920’s and originally was home to a furniture store. It was later home to the Cardwell Motor Car Company in the mid-1920’s. The building was converted for use as a movie theater and it opened as the Lakeland Theater in 1928. The name was changed to the Lake Theater in the late 1940’s. The theater closed in the early 1960’s and the building was torn down in 1970 to make way for a parking garage.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on December 4, 2015 at 5:24 pm

1948 photo added courtesy of The Lakeland Library.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on October 6, 2022 at 11:37 am

Final showtimes were January 11, 1963 “The Humanoids” and “Magic Voyage of Sinbad.”

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