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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•“Welcome to growing older. Where all the foods and drinks you’ve loved for years suddenly seem determined to destroy you” (4/17)
•“Date someone who drinks with you instead of complaining that you drink” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Government creates the crises so it can ‘rescue’ you with the loss of freedom” (4/17)
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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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Manhatin’ (feminist cocktail)
“Where does a dad keep all his jokes?”/“In the dadabase.”
“How do you make a pancake smile?”/“Butter him up.”
“What’s better than eating a mandarin?”/“Eating Amanda out.”
“I’m thinking about pursuing a job as a crowd estimator. I wonder how many are in that field”
“What’s the best pancake topping?”/“More pancakes.”
“Did you hear about the angry pancake? He just flipped”
“Why don’t Mexicans have barbecues?”/“Because the beans fall through the grill.”
“I told myself I should stop drinking… But i’m not about to listen to some drunk”
“What did the young pancake say to the old one?”/“I don’t like your flip side.”
“Pancake Day really crêped up on us”
“My wife asked me to bring home some stuff for the pancakes” (joke)
“Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got”
“If America had a slogan, it’d be ‘Don’t bother me, I’m eating’”
“I’m working on my résumé. Should I use ‘mad skillz’ or would ‘mad skills’ be more formal?”
Grocerant (grocery + restaurant)
“How do elves eat their pancakes?”/“In short stacks.”
“Pancake jokes are for tossers”
“What do the New York Yankees and pancakes have in common?”/“They both need a good batter!”
“What do the New York Yankees and pancakes have in common?”/“They both need a good batter!”
“When the boy was making pancakes, why did it run away? Because it said crack 2 eggs then beat it”
“What did the pancake say to the baseball player?”/“Batter up!”
“The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they’d turn over by themselves”
“One does not simply have ‘one’ pancake”
“He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes”
“I’m getting pancakes with a side of pancakes”
“We all deserve morning sex and pancakes”