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Read more: https://historictheatres.org/blog/2016/11/14/behind-the-curtain-at-the-nickelodeon-americas-first-movie-theatre/
TIL Nickelodeon is named after the first theater in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures. Opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nickelodeon’s name was concocted from nickel (the cost of admission) and the ancient Greek word odeion, a roofed-over theater.
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Fun fact: Nickelodeons specialized in showing early animated films, which is why the Nickelodeon channel is best known for cartoons.
Super cool TIL. Odeon is a cinema chain in the UK and I never knew anything about the origin of the word.
But the Lumieres opened theaters in France in 1896.
https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/first-commercial-movie-screened
Craziest part is that the name of the first nickelodeon proprietor was Douglas Yancy Fuhnë. Can you imagine being a parent and making your kid’s middle name Yancy?