The Beautiful Lake Theater, where I saw movies as a kid:
Note the 'blacks only' balcony. Fortunately this was a thing of the past by the time I started going there.
As a small town theater in the '70s they rarely played top line 'A' pictures, which meant we were lucky enough to see classics like FROGS, WALKING TALL, BILLY JACK, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, DRACULA AD 1972, HATCHET FOR A HONEYMOON, THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF, BLOOD AND LACE, GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER, NIGHT OF THE LEPUS, ARNOLD, etc, etc. on the big screen, week after week. WALKING TALL, a favorite of the owner Bill Harris, played there uninterrupted - except for Saturday afternoon kiddie shows - for a couple of months!
We also got the occassional 'live show' featuring magicians, a local 'Snake Guy', and best of all, a live action spook show featuring REAL LIVE MONSTERS coming to life and jumping off the screen!
After the movie while waiting for your mom to pick you up you could yell at the prisoners hanging out of the windows in the county jail across the street. They'd yell back, too!
It closed in the early '80s, was torn down, and is now a parking lot for the courthouse.
