DeSoto Theater

Lam purchased a section of prime real estate on the main street of downtown Rome for $37,000.

The building's exterior and Georgian interior stylishly housed a number of recent movie palace innovations.

Lam named his new movie palace for Hernando DeSoto, who was thought by many historians to have passed through the area that is now Rome in 1600.

The DeSoto was one of the main sources of entertainment for Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama for the next thirty years.

The DeSoto still retains its Art-Deco marquee, French mirrored entrance hall, and Georgian interior design.