Polk Theatre
Arena
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.