I can remember the couple who owned the Capitola Theater being there all my young life. We lived in the house two doors down from the theater.This was in the 1950s and 1960s. She sold the tickets and he tore them when you went thru the door. We saw the great movies there: Where the Boy Are; On The Beach; Don’t Go Near the Water; Run Silent, Run Deep; Mary Poppins; Fantasia; The Lion in Winter; and even Goldfinger, just to name a few. This was no second run theater, but first run movies. It was even advertised in the San Jose Mercury-News. Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Milk Duds, Jujubes, M&Ms, and a big orange drink. And they all were 10 cents to a quarter. The price of admission, 10 cents, and later a quarter. In the early 1970s I would go back to the Capitola Theater with my wife. Not to watch a movie, but to buy a hot buttered popcorn and walk on the beach. When I went up to the concession counter, there she was, much older, but still the same Audrey who sold me Bon Bons as a youngster. Now the days of first run movies are gone, and the old couple surely are gone from the theater as well. The last time I was in Capitola in 2000, the theater was an Artsy Fartsy California stage theater that no self respecting kid would ever go to… and they don’t sell hot buttered popcorn. Too much fat.
I can remember the couple who owned the Capitola Theater being there all my young life. We lived in the house two doors down from the theater.This was in the 1950s and 1960s. She sold the tickets and he tore them when you went thru the door. We saw the great movies there: Where the Boy Are; On The Beach; Don’t Go Near the Water; Run Silent, Run Deep; Mary Poppins; Fantasia; The Lion in Winter; and even Goldfinger, just to name a few. This was no second run theater, but first run movies. It was even advertised in the San Jose Mercury-News. Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Milk Duds, Jujubes, M&Ms, and a big orange drink. And they all were 10 cents to a quarter. The price of admission, 10 cents, and later a quarter. In the early 1970s I would go back to the Capitola Theater with my wife. Not to watch a movie, but to buy a hot buttered popcorn and walk on the beach. When I went up to the concession counter, there she was, much older, but still the same Audrey who sold me Bon Bons as a youngster. Now the days of first run movies are gone, and the old couple surely are gone from the theater as well. The last time I was in Capitola in 2000, the theater was an Artsy Fartsy California stage theater that no self respecting kid would ever go to… and they don’t sell hot buttered popcorn. Too much fat.