Palace Theatre
114 S. Kentucky Avenue,
Lakeland,
FL
33801
114 S. Kentucky Avenue,
Lakeland,
FL
33801
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc.
Architects: Roy A. Benjamin
Functions: Office Space, Retail
Previous Names: Casino Theatre
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Opened in 1913 as the Casino Theatre. Seating was located in orchestra and balcony levels. By 1926 it had been renamed Palace Theatre. By 1941 it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary E.J. Sparks. The Palace Theatre was listed as (Closed) in 1943, but had reopened by 1950. It was closed on August 23, 1956.
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The address should be updated to 114 S. Kentucky Avenue. There’s a pizza parlor there called Palace Pizza. This newspaper article has a vintage nighttime shot.
Here is my picture from June 2011.
Closed On August 23, 1956.
The opening year we give for this house must be wrong. Not only is there no Casino theatre listed in the 1914-1915 AMPD, but no theater appears at its address on the Sanborn map published in November, 1913, and there is no indication that the buildings that were on the site were being demolished soon, or that any new construction was planned.
The Casino was certainly in operation by late 1916, as it was mentioned in the December 2 issue of the Lakeland Evening Telegram that year, but the claim that it opened in 1913 appears to be a local urban legend. The AMPD might (and often did) fail to list a theater, but the Sanborn map company would have caught hell from some very powerful people in the insurance industry for such a significant omission, so it seems very unlikely they would have left it off of their 1913 map.