in fairness "nickelodeons" were old time arcades long before that channel was born
To be more precise, one of the many names for a player piano, bandorgan, orchestrion, etc.
Even older!
I believe that if you go back even father, the devices where you looked into a viewer and rotated a crank to watch a short filmstrip is the origin of the word. It kind of became ambiguous with any coin-op device eventually.
Nickelodeon the channel was called Pinwheel when it was on Qube, an early addressable cable system that started in Columbus (Ohio.) Wild system, it used PDP11 mnicomputers to provide the processing power for subscriber-selected on demand channels.
Put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon
All I want is having you and music, music, music
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