Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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Purple Cow (grape soda float)
BILF (bacon or burger variant of MILF)
Twecipe (Twitter recipe)
Micro-recipe
“Everything but the squeal”
Yum (Yum-Yum; Yummy; Yumptious; Yum-O)
Shirley Temple (non-alcoholic cocktail)
Cary Grant (cocktail)
Chevon (goat meat)
“Go the whole hog”
“Hill of beans” (idiom)
Mamie Taylor (cocktail)
“A watched pot never boils”
Gairville
Sling (Singapore Sling)
Barista
Glatt Kosher
Pareve (Parve)
City of a Thousand Mounds (Austin nickname)
Smokra (okra with smoked paprika brine)
“An apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze”
Hechsher
California of Texas (Clyde nickname)
Kosher
“Let’s do lunch”
Bandwich (sandwich provided for a band)
Green Giant (Condé Nast building at 4 Times Square)
“Everything but the oink”
“Buy with bread, sell with cheese” (wine saying)
“We campaign in poetry, but when we’re elected we’re forced to govern in prose”
“The oldest word in politics is ‘new’”
Tortilla Chip
“Remember the tea-kettle—though up to its neck in hot water, it still sings”
“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea”
Corn Chip (Fritos)
Texas Road Fairy
Kosher Style
“The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice”
“Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
“Politics stops at the water’s edge”
Sodom South (Greenwich Street between Carlisle and Rector Streets)
God’s Dorm (St. Ann’s Church facade and NYU dorm)
Synagondo (synagogue + condo)
Green Fairy or Green Lady (absinthe nickname)
Sam Hill
One-Hour Fuel (dry weeds and grass)
Down Home Cooking
“Why did the skeleton go to the BBQ?”/“He needed some spare ribs!”
The Shack (police reporters area)
“High taxes don’t redistribute income, they redistribute people”
“What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm!”
Baked Apple (New York City with legalized marijuana)
Cocktail Franks (Cocktail Weiners; Cocktail Wieners; Cocktail Weenies)
Georgia Ice Cream (grits)
Toddy (Hot Toddy)
Arugulance (arugula + arrogance)
“A woman’s place is in the kitchen”
“Chocolate milk comes from brown cows” (“Chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows”)
Gourmonster (gourmet/gourmand + monster)
Texaplex
“I scream for ice cream” (“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”)
Bronx Vanilla (garlic)
Bacontrepreneur (bacon + entrepreneur)
New York City’s Official Apple Proposal—Newtown Pippin (2009)
“And nobody got hurt!”
“In the weeds”
Radio (tuna fish sandwich)
Bankster (banker + gangster)
Top Banana & Second Banana
Waldorf Hysteria (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel nickname)
“Shut up, Brooklyn”
Ladies’ Night