what light . . .

shines in the Polk Theatre - Archive Airings AA13
beautiful architecture -
lovingly restored -
to her Grande Beauty -

www.PolkTheatre.org


"The Polk Theatre was built during a golden age in the United States - the stock market had yet to crash
( though the boom had ended in Florida) and the clouds of World War II were not yet on the horizon. Even so, it was quite a leap of faith to build a vaudeville/movie palace in Lakeland in 1928. The population hovered at only 15,000 people and it was a rural community.
..So build it they did, and it was a place of magic and wonder! The architect, J.E. Casale, an Italian-born immigrant, recreated a Mediterranean village in the heart of Central Florida. Flanked by Italianate walls with niches, sconces, and faux balconies and windows, the patron’s eye was drawn toward the stage and the full scale Italian renaissance “townhouse” setting that dominates the Polk’s interior."

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