Lakeview Theatre
2136 Broad Street,
Augusta,
GA
30904
2136 Broad Street,
Augusta,
GA
30904
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This opened on March 18th, 1941. Picture and grand opening ad has been posted here.
Thanks WHP for the comment on the Lakeview.We know it is still standing.
I try to do my best NICK STORY.Wish I had his time.
Nice write up on this theatre Mike.
The Lakeview was also advertised as “Augusta’s only neighborhood theater” and by the early fifties it was on its last legs due to television. My parents discouraged me from going there because of its somewhat sleazy image. The famous birth of a baby sex exploitation film “Mom and Dad” played there and did huge business with shows for women in the daytime and men at night.
When a theatre like the Lakeview was built in a basically a Mill Town of Augusta,it never attracted the crowds that went downtown.B-product was played from every ad I have seen.
MOVIES PLAYING AT THE LAKEVIEW SUMMER 1953
3.DEVIL MAKES THREE
4.REDHEAD FROM WYOMING
5.KANGAROO KID
Joe, The building itself is in great shape.You can tell it was an old theatre that served the mill town section of Augusta.
The May 3, 1941, issue of Boxoffice said that Altec would be providing “…sound service for Bert Ram’s new Lakeview, Augusta, Ga…..” The house must have opened around that time.