Century Capitol 16

Was built in 1994 to stave off AMC opening a theatre in the Edenvale area of San Jose. Century made efforts to build, but kept getting put off by members of the San Jose City Council, who wouldn’t change the zoning in the area to allow for a theatre. AMC expressed interest in building in the area, in a location the city preferred. Finally, in a middle finger to the City Council, they built the Capitol 16 on the Capitol 6 Drive-in property—already zoned for a theater.

It was the last Century Theatres completely designed by architect Vince Rainey. Subsequent theatres had a significantly different—and much nicer—interior design. Shortly after, they stopped using Rainey completely favoring the standard theater design now used my most major chains: U-shaped box building, stadium seating, etc.