The Big Apple: Mini-Apple (summary)

Above, a plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Recent entries:
• Cuatro Leches or Quatro Leches (four milks cake) (8/28)
• Bean Burger (Beanburger) (8/27)
• Dutch Broadway (Courtlandt Avenue in the Bronx) (8/26)
• Blue Alert ("Amber Alert” for officers) (8/25)
• “Harder than eating red beans with a pitchfork” (8/25)
More new entries...

Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Oct. 17, 1931, Turf Play, p. 7.

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.

This site is edited by Barry Popik. Technical matters are handled by Grant Barrett of Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary.

Entry from March 04, 2005

Mini-Apple (summary)

"Minneapolis" actually means the "city of lakes" or "city of waters." However, it sounds like it means "mini-apples."

After "the Big Apple" became famous in the 1970s, some writers began calling Minneapolis the "mini-apple." Unlike Manhattan, Kansas with "Little Apple," "Mini Apple" was never trademarked or formally used.

http://travelchannel.igougo.com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?JournalID=11895&EntryID=8795&n=Where+in+the+World+is+Truly+Malin%3F
I was going from "The Big Apple" to a city that is - and only a New Yorker can appreciate how depressing this is - known as "The Mini-Apple".

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/stories/2002/07/24/cityNicknames.html
Minneapolis The Mini Apple

http://www.slanguage.com/minneapolis.html
Minnie Apple
Where we live (So unlike New York's big apple)

Posted by Barry Popik
Nicknames of Other Places • Mini Apple (Minneapolis nickname) • (0) Comments • Friday, March 04, 2005 • Permalink