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 November 29, 2020
“I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper”

“I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic caused mass buying of toiled paper in March 2020.
 
”*Survival instincts kick in* Buys out a whole aisle of toilet paper” was posted on Twitter by xiv on March 7, 2020. “Worst Survival Instincts Ever:  ‘Must have toilet paper.’ #coronavirus” was posted on Twitter by All American Canadian on March 10, 2010. 
 
“I still can’t believe y’all SURVIVAL instincts told y’all to grab toilet paper LMAOOOOOOOOO” was posted on Twitter by Chocolate Hunk on March 15, 2020. “I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper” was posted on Twitter by hoodratchet on March 18, 2020.
   
   
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
       
Twitter
xiv
@ziggydef
*Survival instincts kick in*
Buys out a whole aisle of toilet paper.
1:53 AM · Mar 7, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter   
All American Canadian
@mikedrop77
Worst Survival Instincts Ever:  “Must have toilet paper.” 
#coronavirus
1:56 PM · Mar 10, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
bluesquare
@bluesquaremusic
Replying to @BedrockSway
I still can’t believe toilet paper sold out before some mfs got bad survival instincts
11:54 AM · Mar 15, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Chocolate Hunk
@TheChocoHunk
I still can’t believe y’all SURVIVAL instincts told y’all to grab toilet paper LMAOOOOOOOOO
6:42 PM · Mar 15, 2020·Twitter Web App
   
Twitter
K e n n e d y
@kennwindlan
I can’t believe everyone’s survival instincts told them toilet paper over everything lol
8:04 PM · Mar 15, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
hoodratchet
@hoodratchetv
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper
11:44 AM · Mar 18, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
GYPSY
@olaalfadilxo
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper
3:51 PM · Mar 19, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
MISS BETHANY MAE
@MISSBETHANYMAE
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper
10:21 PM · Mar 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter 
Diamynd
@itsdiamynd
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper
3:01 PM · Mar 21, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Nick
@Chornstarr
i still don’t understand why so many people’s survival instincts told them to buy toilet paper. like how fucking stupid are people.
6:31 PM · Mar 21, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
𝒦𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉ℯ𝓃
@shesfinetwo
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to hoard toilet paper.
7:58 AM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
RICK (Stop The Steal!)
@barmore27
I still can’t believe peoples survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper
2:48 PM · Jul 13, 2020·Twitter for Android
     
Newport (OR) News Times
Bobbie’s beat: Wit and wisdom
By: Bobbie Lippman
Posted Aug 13, 2020
(...)
• “I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper.”
     
Topeka (KS) Capital-Journal
Mike Hall: Finding humor despite grim circumstances
By Mike Hall
Posted Aug 25, 2020 at 3:02 PM  
(...)
I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab toilet paper.
 
Twitter
El Arroyo
@ElArroyo_ATX
El Arroyo TP is hot off the press for the holidays - link in bio
(The following is shown on the restaurant’s sign.—ed.)
STILL CAN’T BELIEVE
SOME PPPL’S SURVIVAL
INSTINCTS TOLD THEM
TO GRAB TOILET PAPER
12:28 PM · Nov 23, 2020·IFTTT

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