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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

San Jose's last drive-in still lights up six screens every night of the year. The Capitol Drive-In at 3630 Hillcap Avenue opened on 25 May 1971 with four screens and a free inaugural program of The Owl and the Pussycat, 101 Dalmatians, Valdez Is Coming and Zeppelin - one of six drive-ins then operating in San Jose, designed by Vincent G. Raney, the architect behind much of the Century Theatres circuit. Later expanded to six screens, it outlived every competitor: at the industry's 1960s peak Cali...