"One day I want to be ‘Let’s Just Take My Helicopter’ rich” is a jocular saying about wealth that has been printed on several images. The saying was posted on Twitter on January 23, 2011.
Twitter
Rhia
@TeamFonkHouse
One day I want to be “Let’s just take my helicopter” rich
3:55 AM - 23 Jan 2011
Twitter
Earl
@BlueMag1c
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich
8:08 AM - 23 Jan 2011
Twitter
Angel Campey
@YesReallyAngel
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich.
9:30 AM - 23 Jan 2011
Facebook
Stupid Whipz
December 13, 2011 ·
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich.
Funny Status
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter”…
May 20, 2013 Financial Status Updates
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich.
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– One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich.
Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
One day I want to be “Let’s Just Take My Helicopter” rich.
12:30 PM - 7 Jul 2017
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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