Early in 1916, two movie theatres opened in Lake City: the Idle Hour Motion Picture Company and the New Theatre. That autumn, F.W. Rutledge moved his Idle Hour into the 1,000-seat McClam Theatre, newly constructed by J. S. McClam. Admission cost 25 and 50 cents. Located midway on the north side of West Main Street's first block, its air was cooled by electric fans and recirculated every five minutes. The New Theatre probably closed its doors forever sometime after the opening of the state-of-the-art McClam. Louie L. Propst Sr. and W. A. McClam bought the McClam in 1931 and renamed it the Ritz, pictured above.

In 1950, Louie L. Propst Sr. built and opened the Propst Theatre. The Propst, next door to the corner Esso gasoline station, was the second business in the second block of West Main Street, at the northeast corner. For the next six years, Lake City had two indoor theaters, one block apart, the Ritz and the Propst, each running a matinee and an evening show daily, except on Sundays. The Ritz Theatre closed in 1956; its ruins are still visible, now Theatre Park. In 1969, the Propst Theatre closed and was immediately razed to make way for a new shopping center, called the Lake City Plaza, now home to the Continuum.