Query: 1913 "nickel"

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Wed Sep 26 11:49:10 UTC 2001


My naive speculation is that "nickel" is short for "nickel theater" or so.
Mathews' "Dictionary of Americanisms" shows several citations for "nickel
theater", "nickel show", "nickelodeon" from 1908-1914.

-- Doug Wilson



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