Lake Theatre

2436 Lakeshore Drive,
Shreveport, LA 71103

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Firms: Jones, Roessle, Olschner & Wiener

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The Lake Theatre was opened in 1927. It was still open in 1952, but had closed by 1955.

Contributed by Billy Smith / Don Lewis

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Don Lewis
Don Lewis on November 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm

“In the 1960s I used to stand under the marquee of the boarded up Lake Theater waiting for my dad to pick me up after movies at the nearby Venus Theater.”…Billy Smith

rivest266
rivest266 on October 5, 2016 at 4:06 pm

The first ad from April 19th, 1945 can be found in the photo section. May have been opened before, but the management did no newspaper advertising.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 7, 2024 at 11:33 pm

The Lake could be the first of the two theaters noted in this item from Moving Picture World of May 14, 1927: “Shreveport, La., is to have two new theatres. Charles Morel, El Dorado, Ark., plans to build at Portland and Fetzer avenues. His house will cost about $30,000. A. L. Waller plans a house on Texas avenue. It will have a main floor and balcony and cover a site 40 by 125 feet. Plans for both houses have been prepared by Jones, Roessle, Olschner & Wiener, Ardis Building, Shreveport, La.”

Fetzer Avenue is the former name of Lakeshore drive. The house on Texas Avenue may have been the Star, though that didn’t open until 1930.

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