The Big Apple: “Showing your love is now just looking at them for five minutes without checking your phone”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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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 09, 2018

“Showing your love is now just looking at them for five minutes without checking your phone”

"Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone” is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. The saying was posted on Twitter on February 5, 2013.

Twitter
тɑgi
@i_tagi
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.
8:50 AM - 5 Feb 2013

Twitter
Dounia
@douniahadake
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.
8:56 AM - 5 Feb 2013

Twitter
Tencin 🕊
@GQprometheus
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.
8:57 AM - 5 Feb 2013

Facebook
Trollology
February 5, 2013 ·
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone

Funny Status
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or…
February 6, 2013 Love Status Updates
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.

Funny Status
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem…
September 11, 2015 Love Status Updates, Men Status Updates, Relationship Status Updates, Women Status Updates
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.

Twitter
Bill Murray
@BiIIMurray
Showing your love used to be buying them flowers or writing a poem. Now it’s just looking at them for 5 minutes without checking your phone.
7:23 PM - 9 Mar 2018

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