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 March 10, 2006
Orchid Show (New York Botanical Garden)
The annual Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden is a new event, but an increasingly popular one.

http://www.nybg.org/plan_your_visit/event_detail.php?id_event=640
2/25/2006 - 4/2/2006
The Orchid Show
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

The Garden's magnificent Orchid Show returns to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory for a fourth year and an extra week. In this unique glasshouse setting, experience the breathtaking beauty and astonishing forms and colors of the world's most coveted flowering plant. Throughout the show, thousands of orchids—everything from rare miniature species to the newest and most extravagant hybrids—are on display in both dramatic and naturalistic habitats. A world of orchids awaits you, including thousands of them for sale at the Shop and dozens of opportunities to learn more about them.
Posted by Barry Popik
Holidays/Events/Parades • Friday, March 10, 2006 • Permalink


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