Lakeside Theatre

John Eickhof on August 22, 2023 at 5:24 pm

I was young and living near Stateline, I saw many a Saturday matinee at the Lakeside! When Judge Rudy Buchannan built the new Lakeside near the Y, My Father was the masonry contractor that built the building. Later I worked there and serviced the booth. After it was split into the four screen, I managed it until Wallace bought it from Bob Retzer. It had a pair of Century projectors with Peerless Magnarc lamps and a nice 2 bedroom apartment upstairs that I lived in while managing the Retzer circuit. I was there for a few years and was working at theatres in North Shore of Tahoe.

DavidZornig on August 5, 2020 at 7:21 pm

Update on ownership in the 1960s. Check stub image and description added credit Jennifer Laing Horst.

“Lakeside Theater was owned by Betty and Will Tomlinson. He,was Vice President of Screen Gems. I worked there in the mid 60’s selling tickets. They wanted me to move to Crescent City to run a theater there for them but I didn’t. They also opened the theatre by Cecils. I didn’t make much but it was a lot then.”

Joe Vogel on November 29, 2012 at 6:18 pm

Three photos of the Lakeside Theatre, from 1948, 1953, and 1956, can be seen on this post at the web site of the Lake Tahoe News. The text says that the theater “… was about midway between today’s Applebee’s Restaurant and the Park Avenue stoplight….” That would place it on Lake Tahoe Boulevard very near Park Avenue. Applebee’s is at 3987 Lake Tahoe Boulevard, so the theater must have been at about 3993 Lake Tahoe.

CinemaTour has photos of the New Lakeside Cinemas (the 1963 replacement building) and gives the address as 1043 Emerald Bay Road, which is quite some distance from the location of the original Lakeside Theatre. CinemaTour doesn’t list the original Lakeside, and we don’t yet have a page for the New Lakeside.