“The library before finals looks like the gym after New Year’s” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on many images. “The library before finals looks like the gym after new years” was posted on Twitter on December 9, 2014.
The saying exploded in popularity when it was posted on Yik Yak on Twitter on December 8, 2015.
Twitter
Sergio Cortez
@SERGI_619
The library before finals looks like the gym after new years
2:11 PM - 9 Dec 2014 from San Diego, CA
Twitter
Yik Yak
@YikYakApp
“The library before finals looks like the gym after New Years” — Georgetown University
1:01 PM - 8 Dec 2015
Twitter
shitMaddyplagiarizes
@maddyssmith
The library before finals looks like the gym after New Years
1:09 PM - 8 Dec 2015
Twitter
NonsenseSpeaker
@Flickerinyou
The library before finals looks like the gym after New Years
3:18 AM - 31 Dec 2016
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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