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THEME: NICKELODEON NATION Five years into the twentieth century, America's urban, largely immigrant, working class discovered a new form of mass entertainment — the nickelodeon. |
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   Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (left & bottom) Advertisement in the Jewish Daily Forward (right) |
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Viewers flocked to small, storefront theaters that charged five cents admission for a half-hour show of several short moving pictures. These rapidly proliferating nickelodeons could be found in most American cities but were especially popular on New York's Lower East Side. Entrepreneurs including William Fox, Adolph Zukor, and Marcus Loew all operated nickelodeons in the neighborhood. Thus, the mythology of the Lower East Side has come to celebrate New York's original Jewish quarter as both the principal point of entry for American Jews and the cradle of the nation's movie industry. |
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