Nickelodeon
109 Pleasant Street,
Fall River,
MA
02720
109 Pleasant Street,
Fall River,
MA
02720
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The Nickelodeon Musee on Pleasant Street began advertising in January of 1897. It shortened to the Nickelodeon. It closed in the Fall of 1909 and was retrofitted as a theatre likely losing the arcade units. It operated until showtimes of July 1, 1927 when a projection booth fire appears to have ended operations. It had 30 years of documentable operation - an amazing run for the Pleasant Street exhibitor. In October of 1927, the space was retrofitted becoming the Island Park Shooting Gallery amusement place.
The first motion pictures shown in Fall River were in this theatre in 1895, according to an article in the Fall River Globe.
The list of Fall River movie theaters in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook includes a “Nichelodian” with 390 seats, open daily. I assume that it’s this theater. There are no street addresses in the listings.
A man on horseback and dressed like a cowboy would ride through the city’s main streets promoting the films playing at the various nickel theatres of the city during the early silent era.