“Red Bull gives you wings. Vodka gives you 4x4”

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 March 30, 2023

“Red Bull gives you wings. Vodka gives you 4x4”

Entry in progress—BP

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Captain Awesome
@the_strass13
Red bull gives you wings. Vodka gives you 4x4.
11:24 AM · Sep 29, 2012

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Jo Delo
@hLoach
Red Bull gives you wings, vodka gives you 4x4.
11:25 AM · Sep 29, 2012

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Red Bull gives you wings, vodka gives you 4x4.
11:56 AM · Sep 29, 2012

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