Talk:Nickelodeon (movie theater)

Latest comment: 1 month ago by 2600:1700:7C10:AF50:2C5D:F5D1:79EF:4338 in topic belief to expand the business

Translation Class Project

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We are currently working on THE TRANSLATION into Spanish of this article. Translation work will be ready by the end of June 2014. For more information see Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Universitat_Jaume_I_-_E-translating PLEASE, DO NOT TRANSLATE THIS PAGE. IF YOU DO SO, PLEASE INFORM US AT Mcptrad--Mcptrad (talk) 20:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Apt name

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

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)Reply

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

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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)Reply

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)Reply

"Music! Music! Music!"

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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)Reply

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

belief to expand the business

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The sentence about middle class audiences with "belief to expand the business" is garbled and doesn't read. 2600:1700:7C10:AF50:2C5D:F5D1:79EF:4338 (talk) 19:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)Reply