"Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold & the friendship’s free” is a saying that has been printed on many images.
“Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold (or hot) and the friendship’s free” was posted on Twitter by Teafolium on November 18, 2013. “Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold and the friendship’s free” was posted on Twitter by Margo Patrice Lepley on May 2, 2014. The saying probably originated on a sign.
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Teafolium
@Teafolium
Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold (or hot) and the friendship’s free. :o) #Drinktea #Teadrinker #TeaLove #ILoveTea
6:17 PM · Nov 18, 2013·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Margo Patrice Lepley
@margeyyyyy
Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold and the friendship’s free.
1:09 AM · May 2, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
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Mare CC
@mareciarricco
Come sit on the porch with me, the drinks are cold & the friendship is free! #FridayEve #Friendship #JerseyGirl <3 http://fb.me/1pNY1hGND
6:36 AM · Jun 19, 2014·Facebook
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Support Anthony
@jerseyfruit
Come sit on the porch with me, the drinks are cold & the friendship is free! #FridayEve #Friendship #JerseyGir…
6:51 AM · Jun 19, 2014·twitterfeed
Twitter
Dawn Maria
@CarryaRucksack
Come sit on the porch with me, the drinks are cold and the friendship’s free
1:50 PM · Jun 23, 2014·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Leslie J. Maloney
@juicyjles
Come sit on the porch with me ☺️ the drinks are cold and the friendship’s free
9:23 PM · Jun 30, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
Lockport (NY) Union-Sun & Journal
In praise of the front porch
Norbert Rug Commentary Jun 6, 2018
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So come sit on the porch with me, where the drinks are cold and the friendship is free.
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AUG. 7, 2018
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7. “Come sit on the porch with me. The drinks are cold and the friendship is free.” — Unknown
Twitter
Bob Golen
@BobGolen
(The following text is shown on a sign.—ed.)
COME SIT ON THE
PORCH WITH ME
THE DRINKS ARE COLD &
THE FRIENDSHIP’S FREE
9:47 AM · Mar 3, 2022·Twitter Web App
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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