Nickelodeon (movie theater)

A nickelodeon theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, c. 1910. Nickelodeons often used gaudy posters and ornamented facades to attract patrons, but bare walls and hard seats usually awaited within.

The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures in the United States and Canada. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission (a "nickel", hence the name)^[1] and flourished from about 1905 to 1915. American cable station Nickelodeon was named after the theater.

^ Jeremy Agnew, The Landscapes of Western Movies: A History of Filming on Location, 1900 - 1970, page 28, McFarland, Inc., 2020

[1] Jeremy Agnew, The Landscapes of Western Movies: A History of Filming on Location, 1900 - 1970, page 28, McFarland, Inc., 2020

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