Talk:Nickelodeon (movie theater)

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Apt name

Why is nickelodeon an "apt name"? And what place do judgements like those have in Wikpedia?Heatherfire 01:21, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

They have no place, they are just a person's opinion. I'm removing all such commentary from this article. -- Atamasama 17:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Are the terms "nickelodeon" and "nichelodeon" synonymous?

This article is titled "Nickelodeon (movie theater)" but appears to use "nickelodeon" and "nichelodeon" interchangeably in its content and even section titles. No page currently exists at Nichelodeon, but if the terms are synonymous, perhaps a page with a redirect should be created there, and this article should mention that the terms are synonyms. Otherwise, the article should probably be edited to use only one of the two terms for the sake of consistency. -Burpen (talk) 14:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Patrons paid a nickel to get into a nickelodeon, while nichelodeon patrons had to part with a nichel. Which is to say that it was someone's remarkable spelling error. Now fixed, along with several other oddities. AVarchaeologist (talk) 18:11, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

"Music! Music! Music!"

The second paragraph of this article gives the impression that the use of the word "nickelodeon" to refer to a coin-operated player piano or jukebox began with the song "Music! Music! Music!". This is not correct. "Nickelodeon" is used this way in Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy (Book 1, Chapter 17, p. 129 of my Vintage Classics edition). It may not be the original meaning, but it wasn't something the writer of that song made up "for unknown reasons". The writer of "Music! Music! Music!" used it that way because it had already been used that way for decades. 71.105.240.13 (talk) 21:40, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I've corrected this now. 71.105.240.13 (talk) 22:01, 19 August 2022 (UTC)