The Big Apple: “I’m so strong I can lift a house! Well, only if it’s a lighthouse”

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.

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Entry from March 15, 2018

“I’m so strong I can lift a house! Well, only if it’s a lighthouse”

A weightlifting joke was posted on Twitter on May 6, 2014:

Stranger: You can lift a house?
Me: Yep.
Stranger: Wow, you must be strong.
Me: Nah, it’s a light house.

“I’m so strong I can lift buildings! Well...Only if it’s a lighthouse” was posted on Twitter by Shitjokes on March 14, 2016, and again on Twitter on March 14, 2018.

Twitter
Sasank Dhulipudi
@SilentTorpedo
Stranger: You can lift a house?
Me: Yep.
Stranger: Wow, you must be strong.
Me: Nah, it’s a light house.
2:31 AM - 6 May 2014

Twitter
Aram
@boatsnhosenfeld
I’m so swole I could lift a house
A lighthouse
(im out of shape)
1:53 PM - 2 Jan 2015

Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
I’m so strong I can lift buildings!
Well…
Only if it’s a lighthouse.
4:03 PM - 14 Mar 2016

Twitter
Jon H
@swrtyjon
I’m so strong I can lift buildings!
Well…
Only if it’s a lighthouse.
3:50 AM - 16 Mar 2016

Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
I’m so strong I can lift buildings!
Well… only if it’s a lighthouse.
5:12 PM - 14 Mar 2018

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New York City • Exercise/Running/Health Clubs • Thursday, March 15, 2018 • Permalink