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 September 09, 2017
Shellebration (shell + celebration)

A “shellebration” (shell + celebration) is a seafood festival. “A clambake (shellebration)” was cited in print in 1959. “Eating our seafood is a shell-ebration” was a 1976 newspaper advertisement for a New Jersey steak & oyster house.
   
       
12 April 1959, The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, NC), pg. 4, col. 8 ad:
Take a word—celebration, for example. With it, you can have a football rally (yellebration), a gossipy bridge party (tellebration), or a clambake (shellebration). That’s Thinklish—and it’s that easy!
(Lucky Strike cigarettes.—ed.)
 
13 August 1976, Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, NJ), Weekend sec., pg. 4, col. 3 ad:
Eating our seafood is a shell-ebration.
NEIL’S
steak & oyster house
222 E. schellenger avenue
wildwood-by-the-sea, n.j.
 
20 May 1977, Vineland (NJ) Times Journal, pg. 16, col. 1 ad:
We always have a shell-ebration going.
NEIL’S
steak & oyster house
222 E. schellenger avenue
wildwood-by-the-sea, n.j.
   
4 December 2001, Burlington (VT) Free Press, pg. 2C, col. 1:
The Waterfront’s Favorite Shellfish Shell-ebration
SHRIMP FEST
 
24 September 2005, Ocala (FL) Star-Banner, “Shell-e-bration!” by Gwenn Welch:
Watch out scallops, oysters, clams and conchs, Kelley Lane wants your shell! She blames her fascination with shells on her mom. “She lived in Goodland and would take out parties,” Lane said, “visitors, looking for shells.” For years Lane’s mother collected shells herself.
       
OCLC WorldCat record
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Season 7
Author: Kevin B Eastman; Peter A Laird; Bill Wolf; Walt Kubiak; Cam Clarke; All authors
Publisher: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Lionsgate ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed in Canada by Alliance Films, ©2012.
Series: Complete classic series collection, discs 17-20.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : Animation : English
Contents:
A shellebration of a fan-nomenon sensation (bonus)—
A shellebration of the TV sensation (bonus)—
A shellebration of the Turtles’ creation (bonus)—
A shellebration with points of articulation (bonus).
 
Twitter
Feed Me‏
@NewsdayFeedMe
This weekend, it’s Mollusk Madness in #Greenport. Check out this cool event: #Shellebration! http://ow.ly/fMzvw  #clam #oyster #scallop
11:55 AM - 3 Dec 2012
 
31 January 2014, Daily News (Jacksonville, NC), “Crossing county lines: Recreation departments in eastern Onslow, western Carteret rally involvement” by Katie Hansen:
The Oyster Shellebration on Feb. 28 and March 1 will celebrate local seafood and the coastal habitat. Participants can enjoy seafood and wine tastings, marsh cruises, live music and a documentary in the Swansboro Town Hall Assembly Room.
   
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Howe Corporation‏
@Howecorp
The #oyster is the main attraction at the NCCF ‘Shellebration’ event: http://ow.ly/t9LLe
8:03 AM - 7 Feb 2014
 
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Kevin Joseph‏
@kevinjoseph
Ta Daaaahhhh!!!  Tickets now on sale for Brooklyn Oyster Riot on 9.10 and SHELLebration on 9.12. New… https://instagram.com/p/6k1RT7MmBH/
1:46 PM - 19 Aug 2015 from Manhattan, NY
 
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New York Places‏
@NY_Places
Brooklyn Bridge Park gets another mention: http://sch.mp/00RLyf  - RT @Romio Celebrate summer at the Oyster Shellebration at Brooklyn B…
9:17 AM - 26 Aug 2015
 
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Brooklyn Bridge Park‏
@BklynBrdgPark
It’s an Oyster Shellebration on Sept 12! Enjoy delicious oysters, wine & spirits, and more. http://bit.ly/1fKPl7R
10:52 AM - 28 Aug 2015

Posted by Barry Popik
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