“Pretty weird how we are all living in a time where not going to the gym is considered healthy”

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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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.

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Entry from July 20, 2020

“Pretty weird how we are all living in a time where not going to the gym is considered healthy”

Entry in progress—B.P.

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Nate Armbruster
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Happy to be living in a time where not going to the gym is considered healthy.
12:46 AM · Jul 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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July 19, 2020 ·
Shared by the very healthy Mark Hyde
Pretty weird how we are all living in a time where not going to the gym is considered healthy.

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