"Herb traders are thyme travelers” is a jocular one-line saying that was posted on Twitter by Glenn Fleishman on March 7, 2016. A similar saying was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on January 5, 2018:
“Someone should rewrite the history books to refer to ancient spice traders as thyme travelers.”
Twitter
Glenn Fleishman
@GlennF
Herb traders are thyme travelers.
6:25 PM - 7 Mar 2016
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Someone should rewrite the history books to refer to ancient spice traders as thyme travelers
submitted January 5, 2018 by thedavidperkins
Twitter
Shower Thoughts Bot
@thoughtsbybot
Someone should rewrite the history books to refer to ancient spice traders as thyme travelers #thoughts
2:00 AM - 5 Jan 2018
Twitter
Shower Thoughts
@Thoughts4Shower
Someone should rewrite the history books to refer to ancient spice traders as thyme travelers
#showerthoughts
2:12 AM - 5 Jan 2018
Twitter
RandomFun!
@RandomFun_
Someone should rewrite the history books to refer to ancient spice traders as thyme travelers
2:16 AM - 5 Jan 2018
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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