The forerunner to the modern movie theater, the nickelodeon, first opened in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, in 1905.
The nickelodeon showed motion pictures with musical accompaniment.
Where was the first nickelodeon?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: American History
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