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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Entry from September 25, 2020
“A guy only 3 feet, 3 inches tall showed up at my house. It was the meter man”

A “meter man” checks the gas/water meter. He is not just a meter tall, but there are jokes.
 
“Bloke just knocked on my door, I opened it and he was about 3ft 3"tall. I said ‘who are you?’ he said ‘Im the meter man’” was posted on Twitter by Tom ditchburn on October 28, 2013.
 
 
Twitter
Tom ditchburn
@DitchyTom
Bloke just knocked on my door,I opened it and he was about 3ft 3"tall.
I said “who are you?” he said “Im the meter man”
2:30 PM · Oct 28, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
Sally Green
@Greensalgreen
Bloke just knocked on my door ... I opened it and he was about 3ft 3” tall.
I said: “Who are you?” He replied: “I’m the meter man.”
4:04 PM · Oct 29, 2013·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
chippy
@NChipchase
A bloke just knocked on my door. when i opened it he was about 3 feet 3 inches tall.
When I said who are you?
He said ” I’m the meter man
4:18 PM · Nov 4, 2013 from York, England·Twitter for iPhone
       
Twitter
Libby McCready
@libby_mc
@Lauri2577 was talking to a bloke today who was only 3 foot 3 inches tall - he says he is a meter man #boom
3:37 PM · Nov 11, 2013·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Hemsy
@PhillHemsworth
Bloke just knocked on my door, I opened it and he was about 3 foot 3 inches tall I said “who are you”?  he said “I’m the meter man”
3:31 PM · Nov 14, 2013·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Dave
@daveywww
Some bloke knocked on door today
I opened it and he stood there, about 3 ft 3 inches tall
I said “who are you?” he said
“I’m the meter man”
2:06 PM · Nov 19, 2013·Twitter for iPad
 
Twitter
The Dad Joke Man
@DadJokeMan
A bloke just knocked on my door, I opened it and he was about 3 foot 3 inches tall…
I said “who are you?”
He replied “I’m the meter man”
9:45 AM · Nov 1, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
The Dad Joke Man
@DadJokeMan
A bloke just knocked on my door, I opened it and he was about 3 foot 3 inches tall…
I said “who are you?”
He replied “I’m the meter man”
1:03 PM · Sep 25, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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