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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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“To know and not to do is not to know”
“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”
“Traders would cut your heart out for an eighth of a point” (Wall Street saying)
Aquemuck (Aqueduct racetrack scandal)
“One is scared and the other is glad of it”
Extend-and-Pretend
Delay-and-Pray
“The only useful thing banks have invented in the last 20 years is the ATM”
Uncle Sugar (Uncle Sam + sugar daddy)
State-Run Media (SRM)
Drive-By Media (DBM)
Murder City (Ciudad Jua?rez nickname)
Librul
Gubmint or Gub’mint (Gubment or Gub’ment)
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
Crescent City (New Orleans nickname)
Poor Man’s Gold (silver nickname)
Home of Happy Feet/The Track (Savoy Ballroom nicknames)
“Leaders don’t create movements, movements create leaders”
Corruptican or Corrupticon
Log Cabin Republicans
Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.)
“Texas: illegally acquired; universally admired”
Demolicious (demolition of Texas Stadium)
Smoke-Filled Room
Pearl (Parks Department squirrel mascot)
“If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall”
“Blood, toil, tears and sweat” (“Blood, sweat and tears”)
Big Red with the Long Green Stem (Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard)
Main Drag of Many Tears (125th or 126th Street)
Pimp Steak (hot dog)
Strivers’ Row (West 138th-West 139th Streets)
Astorperious or Asterperious (from “Astor”)
House of Countless Drops (bar)
Schumwich (NY Senator Chuck Schumer’s sandwich)
Susie-Q or Suzie-Q or Suzy-Q (dance)
Run for the Carnations (Belmont Stakes)
Run for the Roses (Kentucky Derby)
Leaky Roof Circuit (small-time racetracks)
Pole Tax (homophone of “poll tax”)
Frying Pan Circuit (small-time racetracks)
Truther or Troofer/Trufer (9/11 Truth movement follower)
Tenther (Tenth Amendment to the Constitution adherent)
Birther or Birfer (presidential citizenship skeptic)
“If pro and con are opposites, is Congress the opposite of progress?”
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation”
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
“He can run, but he can’t hide” (“You can run, but you can’t hide”)
Undocumented Democrat (illegal alien nickname)
MFM (MSM nickname)
Shrimp Wiggle (Lobster Wiggle)
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men”
“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back”
“What do they call Chinese food in China?”
Fornicaboobery (Fornickaboobery)