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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Allen Ginsberg taped the Dylan show here; Stanford keeps the recording. The San Jose Civic at 145 West San Carlos Street opened on 14 July 1936 as the San Jose Municipal Auditorium, a Spanish Colonial Revival hall by Binder and Curtis built with Depression-era Public Works funds on land the Montgomery family gave the city in 1933. The lobby's painted wooden beams carry Native American designs, and the 500,000-dollar building was conceived as a civic everything-hall - opera to circus, basketball...