Night at the Nickleodeon
The first movie theater opened in a Pittsburgh, Pa., storefront in 1905. The “Nickleodeon” had fewer than 100 seats, but patrons lined the streets for consecutive showings that started at 8 a.m. and didn’t end until midnight. The theater served more than 7,000 people each day.
2 comments:
I have lived in Pittsburgh my entire life and had no idea of this fact. I do not believe many other Yinzers know this either. How cool!
And I just learned a new nickname for people who live in Pittsburgh. Yinzers? I have to know where this started.
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