The Big Apple: “Dementia can lead to obesity. Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet”

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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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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Entry from November 07, 2020

“Dementia can lead to obesity. Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet”

"Dementia can lead to obesity. Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet. http://bit.ly/10Ab7E8 via @sickipedia” was posted on Twitter by Fresh Stand Up on November 6, 2014. The dieting joke originated on the Sickipedia website.

Twitter
Fresh Stand Up
@FreshStandUp
Dementia can lead to obesity. Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet. http://bit.ly/10Ab7E8 via
@sickipedia
12:43 PM · Nov 6, 2014·twitterfeed

Twitter
Ben Bennett
@BenCain66
Dementia can lead to obesity.
Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet.
2:13 PM · Nov 6, 2014·Twitter for iPad

Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
Dementia can lead to obesity.
Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet.
4:24 PM · Nov 6, 2014·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
Dementia can lead to obesity.
Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet.
8:49 AM · Nov 6, 2016·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Living Sarcasm
@SarcasmLiving
Dementia can lead to obesity.
Especially if you keep forgetting you’re on a diet.
6:41 PM · Nov 6, 2020·Twitter Web App

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