Lake Theatre
24 Camden Court,
Camdenton,
MO
65020
24 Camden Court,
Camdenton,
MO
65020
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The Lake Theatre was opened on August 25, 1950 with John Wayne in “Sands of Iwo Jima”. It was closed on April 29, 1957 with William Holden in “The Proud and the Profane. The former Lake Theatre became a mattress store. In 2010 it became a nightclub named Underground.
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The Lake Theater opened on August 25, 1950, and the first feature was SANDS OF IWO JIMA. It was advertised in the local newspaper as having “Colorama -The Magic Screen of the Future”. The newspaper noted it was “on the east side of the square between Kirby Cafe and the law office of E.O. Claiborne”. It was a “new cinderblock building with a stucco exterior 38 ½ feet wide and 100 feet in length”. It had large neon sign out front with LAKE spelled vertically above the entrance. I’m not sure when it closed as a movie theater, but was being used for a country music show for some time before it became a mattress store. The country music show had closed before the first photo above was taken.
The Lake Theater closed on April 29,1957, and the last feature shown was THE PROUD AND THE PROFANE. According to the local newspaper, on April 30, 1957, the owner of the Lake Theater, John White, assumed ownership of the nearby Camdenton Drive In Theater, and reopened it. I don’t know if anyone ever tried to reopen the Lake Theater, but by the winter of 1957, the Star Theater in Lebanon (25 miles away) was advertising in the Camdenton paper, which would seem to indicate that, at least at that time, there was no longer an indoor theater in Camdenton.
In 1977, this theater was open as Lake Cinema Camdenton, and was being operated by Mid America Theaters, who were at that time were also operatintg Lake Cinema in Lake Ozark.
The mattress store has moved out, and the Lake Theater building in nowbeing advertised for lease.
The Lake Theatre was owned by John White (who also owned Jon’s Theatre and the Camdenton Drive-In at various times), but I don’t think it was ever called the White Theatre.
The Lake Theatre building was recently reopened as a night club called “The Underground”.
Below are 2 recent photos of the Lake Theatre as the Underground nightclub:
http://flic.kr/p/9omFjj
http://flic.kr/p/9oiDTP