Downtown Lake Worth (Lake Avenue and ‘L’ Street c. 1971): The Lake Theater.

FYI: If you haven’t heard, the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County has a new president and CEO: Dave Lawrence. For a recent Q&A with Mr. Lawrence click on this link.

Now to the Lake Theater. . .

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The Cultural Council building.
How it looked circa 1971.

How the building looked
prior to mural installation:

Photo courtesy of the Jim Stafford collection.

Here’s another image soon after the

building was constructed:

It turns out the architect was Roy Benjamin and almost all he did was movie theaters in Florida and Georgia in late 1930s through the 1950s. Below is one of his designs in Pahokee called the Prince Theater. You can see striking similarities to the structure in downtown Lake Worth.