A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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Entry from June 22, 2008
Plano Princess

Plano is a suburb of Dallas, rated by Forbes one of the “Top Suburbs To Live Well.” Many Plano husbands have high-paying tech jobs and the Plano housewives—who are perhaps too spoiled—have received the “Plano Princess” label. The “Plano Princess” moniker has also been applied to the Plano daughters of high school age.
   
   
Wikipedia: Plano, Texas
Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a city in Collin and Denton Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Located mainly within Collin County, it is a wealthy northern suburb of Dallas. The population was 222,030 at the 2000 census, making it the ninth largest city in Texas. According to a 2005 census estimate, Plano had grown to 250,096 making Plano the sixty-ninth most populous city in the United States. Plano is within the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, colloquially referred to as the Metroplex. The city is home to many corporate headquarters, including Ericsson Inc, Perot Systems, Electronic Data Systems, Frito-Lay, Cinemark Theatres, and UGS.
 
In 2005, Plano was designated the best place to live in the Western United States by CNN Money magazine. In 2006, Plano was selected as the 11th best place to live in the United States by CNN Money magazine. In addition to its many industries and good-quality living, Plano has excellent schools that consistently score in the top few percent of the nation, and has been rated as the wealthiest city in the United States by CNN Money with a poverty rate of under 6.4%, and a median income for a family was $106,335. In 2008, Forbes.com selected Plano along with University Park and Highland Park as the three “Top Suburbs To Live Well” of Dallas.
 
Urban Dictionary
Plano Princess
A woman between 28 and 48, driving an SUV while talking on the cell-phone, not paying attention to where she’s going, and with at least 3 different kids names with sport stickers on her rear window. She generally doesn’t realize her husband is paying for their lifestyle with credit and they’ll be on the street if he loses his telecom job.
I’m going to be late this morning, i’m stuck behind a Plano Princess.
Geez, you’d think every Plano Princess in town was at the mall today.

by LadiesMan217 Aug 3, 2007
 
Google Groups: tx.general
Newsgroups: soc.support.fat-acceptance, alt.support.big-folks, soc.singles, dfw.general, tx.general
From: “Aaron R. Kulkis”


Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 04:24:41 -0400
Local: Wed, May 30 2001 4:24 am
Subject: Re: To dance or not to dance????
 
Sue Fallberg wrote:
> “Good” ? are you a Plano Princess?
> No…she’s a Dallas Diva.
 
a Dallas DUMPSTA Diva
       
John and Angie Doyen - Trading Spaces
The Panic Rooms
TV’s Home-Makeover Show ‘Trading Spaces’ Papers Over a Lot. But It Reveals Even More.

By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 7, 2002; Page F01
PLANO, Tex.
(...)
The couples were some of the first homeowners on Shady Valley Road, set in a sea of houses and subdivisions stretching to the horizon, all across a county north of Dallas where the average home size is 3,787 square feet, and the population has quadrupled since 1980 to a half-million people.
 
There is neither shade nor a valley associated with Shady Valley Road. Angie and Angie get the joke about that: They make gentle cracks about “Plano princesses,” the gossipy housewives tooling around in their sport-utes. They see the wry symbolism in the pitiful little trees tethered to their lawns, trying to grow.
 
Cycling Forums
Justme
28-07.-2004, 07:04 AM
Re: Lance Armstrong hates Plano Texas
(...)
And then we have the phrase “Plano Princess”. A verrrrryyyyyy common thing to say around here. One of the other high schools in town has a student parking lot that during the school year is FILLED with brand new sport cars, etc…that are filled up with Daddy’s credit car every week.—-no hand me down cars there except in the teacher parking lot! 
 
YouTube
Plano Princess
Added: October 07, 2006
A satire of MTV Sweet Sixteen show. Follow a girl’s journey into the making of the best sweet sixteen party ever! Produced by Derek Laughlin and Jonny Carrol.
   
Texas Livermores
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Baby Update
(...)
It is a wonderful invention by Graco, where you buy a compatible car seat and it locks into a stroller frame. No gadget, gizmos, cup holders or wipe warmers. Just a stroller. Being in Dallas, it was amazing that we were able to find something like this. Most stores probably would not carry this option for fear of offending the Plano Princesses with it lack of options.

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