The Big Apple: “My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month. It’s part of her minstrel cycle”

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 October 14, 2021

“My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month. It’s part of her minstrel cycle”

"Menstrual cycle” shouldn’t be confused with “minstrel cycle,” but there are jokes. This was posted on Reddit—Jokes on August 9, 2020:

“My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month. It’s part of her minstrel cycle.”

Twitter
M.C. Hale
@M_C_Hale
You play skin-flute?
Well, I’m a master whorganist.
We should play together
after your minstrel cycle. (via @awryone)
9:02 PM · Sep 7, 2009·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
grace!
@gracedontcare
I’m on my minstrel cycle so EFF OFF. *plays a flute and prances around town square*
7:26 PM · Mar 22, 2013·Twitter for iPhone

Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/RipVanWinkle357 August 9, 2020
My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month.
It’s part of her minstrel cycle.
COMMENTS
iendeavortobesilly
You should be bard from making medieval puns
RipVanWinkle357
It’s not the worst. It’s mid-evil at best.
Mickets
Does she perform at knight clubs?

Twitter
JokesBot
@RedditJokesBot
My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month. It’s part of her minstrel cycle.
6:39 PM · Aug 9, 2020·IFTTT

Twitter
Eric Lambert
@palad
My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month. It’s part of her minstrel cycle.
@hortonhatches
12:06 PM · Jul 14, 2021·Twitter Web App

Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/YZXFILE October 14, 2021
My wife rotates playing her guitar, drum, or flute once a month.
It’s part of her minstrel cycle.

Posted by Barry Popik
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