The Big Apple

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.

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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Entry from March 27, 2005

Mile High City (summary)

In the second-half of the 1800s, it was determined that Denver was a "mile high." Around 1900, Denver became known as the "mile high city."

20 July 1905, Wellsboro (PA) Gazette, pg. 1, col. 2:
The reunion of the B. P. O. E. will be held in Denver in 1906. Perry Clay led the fight at Buffalo for the mile high city.

18 December 1907, Los Angeles Times, pg. II2:
DENVER PLANS DOINGS
FOR ITS COMMITTEE.

Mile-High City Will Be Turned
Inside Out in Honor of Men Who
Captured Democratic Convention.

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