“Better days are coming. They are called Saturday and Sunday” is a jocular work saying that has been printed on many images. “Cheer up. Better days are coming. They’re called Saturday and Sunday” was printed in Changing Times (The Kiplinger Magazine) in October 1970.
“Better days are just around the corner. They are called Friday, Saturday and Sunday” is a related saying from 2011.
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October 1970, Changing Times (The Kiplinger Magazine), “Notes on these changing times,” pg. 2, col. 3:
Cheer up. Better days are coming. They’re called Saturday and Sunday.
13 November 1970, Minneapolis (MN) Tribune, pg. 1, col. 7:
Memo From TGF Department
Cheer up. Better days are coming. They’re called Saturday and Sunday.
18 December 1970, Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), “Looking Around” by Tom Page, pg. 13, col. 6:
Lester Rosenbloom’s door at Corning Community College often has thoughts for the day on it, like: “Cheer up, better days are coming—they’re called Saturday and Sunday.” So reports the College Claxon.
14 January 1972, Lexington (KY) Leader, “The Light Touch” by Al Torstrick (Al Torstrick Insurance Agency, Inc.), pg. 19, col. 5 ad:
Cheer up! Better days are coming. (They’re called Saturday and Sunday.)
28 November 1988, Toronto (ON) Star, “Some consider ‘work’ dirtiest 4-letter word” by George Gamester, pg. A2:
After all, BETTER DAYS ARE COMING. THEY ARE CALLED SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
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101 Non Motivational Quotes & Terrible Pick-Up Lines
By Dale Williams
Bloomington, IN: Booktango
2016
Pg. 86:
Better days are coming they’re called Saturday and Sunday.
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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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