How to Use nickelodeon in a Sentence

nickelodeon

noun

• The earliest films, shown at nickelodeons at the start of the 1900s, had no credits at all, just the title.
  — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The picture would be shown only in little Main Street nickelodeons, where his friends would never set foot.
  — Longreads, 15 May 2018
• My most vivid memory of my father was watching silent movies with him in a nickelodeon theater at a local museum.
  — WSJ, 5 July 2017
• 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.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Dec. 2017
• Around the turn of the 20th century, storefront nickelodeon movie theaters joined saloons, dance halls and bowling alleys as city gathering points.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• 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.
  — Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• There, an early nickelodeon houses a collection of posters, books, photos, cameras and other movie memorabilia.
  — Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
• 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).
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017

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