Kodet's Harlem Museum (New York)

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John Kodet opened his small Harlem penny arcade in 1913, and by 1917 it was known as The Harlem Arcade Nickelodeum Museum. The museum was at its opening one of the last of its kind in New York City, as Huber's Museum on 14th Street had previously closed in 1906.

John Kodet began in the museum business as a boy under Professor Worth in the old Worth's Dime Museum, which later became Huber's Museum.