nicolodeons

Updated: May 16, 2025

Fillmore Street, its low-browed shops dark, but with great arcs of white lights spanning the streets that ran east and west, long shafts of yellow light shining across the sidewalk from the restaurants, the candy stores and the nicolodeons where the pianola tinkled plaintively was thronged with saunterers. Alexina darted quick curious glances at them as she walked rapidly along.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - The Sisters-In-Law