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He couldn’t vanquish his writer’s block, and he could barely feed himself; he’d had a gig playing piano at a nickelodeon, but it didn’t last.

There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons.

In those boom years, Clementon Park added one of the region’s first nickelodeon movie theaters and a new bathhouse.

Signing up a music-minded teenager who can write code to program this three-legged psychedelic nickelodeon?

If the technology had existed to make miniature “nickelodeon machines” for watching movies, the whole history of cinema would be different, he says.