Columbia Theatre
450 N. Marion Avenue,
Lake City,
FL
32055
450 N. Marion Avenue,
Lake City,
FL
32055
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I really want someone to find out if an older Columbia Theatre existed before the newer one nearby. It might be under a different name beforehand, but we don’t know yet for sure.
I cannot find any details of this being the original Columbia Theatre. However, during the latter half of the 1930s, only the DeSoto and the Grand were the only movie theaters in Lake City. A newer Columbia Theatre opened at the same site as the later-known Gateway Theatre in 1946.
The building has been radically altered since it closed as a theatre.
This is supposed to be in the same location as the gateway theatre :)
The Columbia must have opened a bit earlier than 1949. Boxoffice of March 15, 1947, says this in an item datelined Lake City: “Leonard Vaughan has been named manager of the New Columbia Theatre here.” The fact that “New” is capitalized might indicate that there was also an earlier Columbia Theatre in Lake City, or it might just be an error by a Boxoffice typesetter.