Every time I drive by it on Smithfield St. here in my hometown of Pittsburgh, I think of its impact.
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Citizen Screen
On June 19, 1905, 450 people attended the opening of the nickelodeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by impresario/showman Harry Davis. While not nation's first theater for moving pictures, its success made it birthplace of the movie theater as a place for mass entertainment.
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