Thank you Clamper1797 for sharing your wonderful memories and stories! I love hearing about everyone’s love and heartfelt loss of our beautiful downtown theatres and structures. I grew up at the tail end of all these places in the early 1960’s. I still remember going to the movies with my family – shopping in downtown San Jose with my mother, lunching at Hale’s in the basement (the wonderful toy department!) :) , Hart’s, Blums, Roos Adkins, Penny’s, Woolworth’s to eat at the counter. I mourn the loss of downtown and those wonderful places, and it saddens me that no one thought to preserve our beautiful beloved downtown San Jose. Pure heartbreak!
I still dream of this beautiful theatre. We loved coming to movies here as children, it was such a treat and so beautiful! It breaks my heart that it was demolished and no one stepped in to preserve it.
My favorite theatre The Jose! Saw the worst and best movies of the 70’s there. As a teenager was both traumatized and fascinated! All the Bruce Lee Kung Fu films – Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Blaxploitation films – Super Fly, Shaft, Cleopatra Jones, Blackula, B Movie Horror films – Race with the Devil, The Devil’s Rain, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Legend of Hell House, Night of the Living Dead, The Incredible Two Headed Transplant. Those Satan Biker movies…yikes! We’d go in when it was light and come out and it was dark! $1 for a triple feature, not to mention the other entertainment – Winos, Prostitutes, kids running up and down the aisles. Awful threadbare seats, gross bathrooms with those pink perfumatic perfume despensers. The best memories! :)
I loved this place! We used to go with my grandfather to see all the cinema classics of Mexico’s Golden Age – Cantinflas, Pedro Infante, Maria Felix, Mil Mascaras, El Santo. It was thrilling! We’d pack a steamy bag of burritos and pile into my Papa’s Rambler. We’d sit in thread-bare theatre seats and eat stale popcorn. The restrooms always smelt of stale urine and they had those pink perfumatic despensers. I’d always beg my mom to let me spray some :) The lady who worked the ticket booth took ballet with my sister and I at San Jose Ballet School. She wore wrestlers lace up shoes instead of ballet slippers. She sported a huge bee-hive and thick eyeliner. Beautiful and mysterious…ah, memories!
Thank you Clamper1797 for sharing your wonderful memories and stories! I love hearing about everyone’s love and heartfelt loss of our beautiful downtown theatres and structures. I grew up at the tail end of all these places in the early 1960’s. I still remember going to the movies with my family – shopping in downtown San Jose with my mother, lunching at Hale’s in the basement (the wonderful toy department!) :) , Hart’s, Blums, Roos Adkins, Penny’s, Woolworth’s to eat at the counter. I mourn the loss of downtown and those wonderful places, and it saddens me that no one thought to preserve our beautiful beloved downtown San Jose. Pure heartbreak!
Loved this place!
Cypress-4-2041! :)
I still dream of this beautiful theatre. We loved coming to movies here as children, it was such a treat and so beautiful! It breaks my heart that it was demolished and no one stepped in to preserve it.
My favorite theatre The Jose! Saw the worst and best movies of the 70’s there. As a teenager was both traumatized and fascinated! All the Bruce Lee Kung Fu films – Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Blaxploitation films – Super Fly, Shaft, Cleopatra Jones, Blackula, B Movie Horror films – Race with the Devil, The Devil’s Rain, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Legend of Hell House, Night of the Living Dead, The Incredible Two Headed Transplant. Those Satan Biker movies…yikes! We’d go in when it was light and come out and it was dark! $1 for a triple feature, not to mention the other entertainment – Winos, Prostitutes, kids running up and down the aisles. Awful threadbare seats, gross bathrooms with those pink perfumatic perfume despensers. The best memories! :)
I loved this place! We used to go with my grandfather to see all the cinema classics of Mexico’s Golden Age – Cantinflas, Pedro Infante, Maria Felix, Mil Mascaras, El Santo. It was thrilling! We’d pack a steamy bag of burritos and pile into my Papa’s Rambler. We’d sit in thread-bare theatre seats and eat stale popcorn. The restrooms always smelt of stale urine and they had those pink perfumatic despensers. I’d always beg my mom to let me spray some :) The lady who worked the ticket booth took ballet with my sister and I at San Jose Ballet School. She wore wrestlers lace up shoes instead of ballet slippers. She sported a huge bee-hive and thick eyeliner. Beautiful and mysterious…ah, memories!