Lyric Theatre
Lakeland,
FL
33801
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According to sources of the Lakeland Evening Telegraph, it appears that the Star name didn’t revive after the March 8, 1912 closure of the Star.
An unidentified moving picture theater that might have been the Lyric appears on the 1913 Sanborn map of Lakeland, at 2 S. Kentucky Avenue (southeast corner of Pine Street) and was the only theater on the map that has not yet been identified. That makes it the most likely location of the house that became the Lyric.
This building had housed a hardware and furniture store in 1908, so if this house was the Edisonia then it was not Lakeland’s first movie show. The July, 1908 Sanborn map shows an “Electric Theatre” in a storefront at what would by 1913 be numbered 122 S. Kentucky Avenue. 122 was more likely the location of the town’s first movie house.
None of the names given above for this theater appear in the 1914-1915 AMPD. The only names listed therein are the Auditorium, the Majestic, and the Star. As the first two houses are now accounted for, and the Star we have listed was closed in 1912, I’m wondering if the name Star might have been revived and used at this house for a while?
The Edisonia might possibly be Lakeland’s first motion picture house, but that remains unknown at this time.