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 April 09, 2011
Crapco (Costco nickname)

Costco, a membership warehouse club, is the third largest retailer in the United States. The company began in Kirkland, Washington, in 1983.
 
The nickname of “Crapco” for Costco has been cited in print since at least 2004.
 
 
Wikipedia: Costco
Costco (NASDAQ: COST), is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. As of July 2009 it is the third largest retailer in the United States, where it originated, and the ninth largest in the world. As of October 2007, Costco is the largest retailer of fine wine in the world.
       
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noisenyc
13th December 2004, 11:50 PM
that and his cardboard laying-box i got from crapco i mean costco.
 
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jlim
07-30-2005 07:01 PM
Costco == Crapco
     
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:19:05 -0600
Local: Tues, Nov 14 2006 6:19 pm
Subject: Re: Bad News at Costco :-(
 
Go to Sam;s club instead.
Too many lines a Crapco.
 
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Re: COSTCO = CRAPCO  
paulandiren
10-Jul-09 05:44 pm  
Why do a much greater percentage of Costco employees have benefits compared to the percentage of Walmart employees?

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