How to Use nickelodeon in a Sentence
nickelodeon
noun
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The earliest films, shown at nickelodeons at the start of the 1900s, had no credits at all, just the title.
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Mekado Murphy,
New York Times,
26 May 2017
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The picture would be shown only in little Main Street nickelodeons, where his friends would never set foot.
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Longreads,
15 May 2018
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My most vivid memory of my father was watching silent movies with him in a nickelodeon theater at a local museum.
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WSJ,
5 July 2017
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New York rabbi and cultural anthropologist Joshua Eli Plaut noted there were 42 nickelodeons — 5 cent movies — in the neighborhood, the most in the city.
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Andrew Wolfson,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Dec. 2017
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Around the turn of the 20th century, storefront nickelodeon movie theaters joined saloons, dance halls and bowling alleys as city gathering points.
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John Jurgensen,
WSJ,
4 June 2018
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For over a century, the building was a neighborhood cornerstone, first as a church, then as an athletic club, and later as a nickelodeon that drew hundreds of attendees a day to its Yiddish vaudeville performances.
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Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2018
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There, an early nickelodeon houses a collection of posters, books, photos, cameras and other movie memorabilia.
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Steven Wayne Yvaska,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2017
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Canny immigrant garment makers, glimpsing profits in a new gadget, the nickelodeon, gave birth to America’s movie industry (even if most of that industry soon departed for sunnier Hollywood).
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Joseph Berger,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2017
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