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 October 29, 2013
“Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire”

“Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire” is a jocular saying about money. “The man who has money to burn can always find someone to help tend the fire” was cited in print in 1956. Authorship of the one-line saying is unknown.
 
 
13 October 1956, Kokomo (IN) Tribune, “Just Checking, Thanks!” by Marge Bancroft (by the Union Bank and Trust Co.), pg. 6, col. 1:
THE man who has money to burn can always find someone to help tend the fire…but he’s usually shorthanded when it’s time to sweep up the ashes! It’s just plain common sense not to get burned in the same place twice. Put your extra dollars in a Union Savings Account where interest earnings are now 2%.
 
Google Books
Farmer’s Digest
Volume 35, Issue 2
1971
Pg. 305:
Any feller with money to burn can always find somebody to tend the fire.
 
15 March 1973, The News (Van Nuys, CA), pg. 33A, col. 3:
Any man with money to burn can always find somebody to tend the fire.
     
Google Books
The Catering Industry Employee:
Official Journal of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ International Alliance and Bartenders’ International League of America

Volumes 88-89
1979
Pg. 18:
Any man with money to burn can always find somebody to tend the fire.
 
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Patty’s Guide to Thai Ladies and All Men
By Tony Crossley and Patcha Boonjaen
Booksmango (booksmango.com)
2013
Pg. 35:
“Anyone with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.” ~Author unknown
 
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Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire. - Unknown #quotes #quote
2:31 PM - 28 Oct 13

Posted by Barry Popik
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