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 May 24, 2021
“The gallows are a really popular hang out spot if you ask me”

The gallows is where people are executed by hanging. It’s not a place to “hang out,” but there are jokes.
 
“The Gallows seems like a good place to hang out” was posted on Twitter by Richard Murnane on July 14, 2011. “The gallows is a great hang out spot” was posted on Twitter by William H. Bonnie on May 29, 2012. “The gallows are a really popular hang out spot if you ask me” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on May 22, 2021.
   
   
Wikipedia: Gallows   
Gallows (or scaffold) are a frame, typically wooden, from which objects can be hung or “weighed”. Gallows were thus widely used for public weighing scales for large objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a framework from which a ship’s anchor might be raised so that it is no longer sitting on the bottom, i.e., “weighing [the] anchor”.
 
In modern usage it has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging.
   
Twitter
Rotelle
@r0toodle
Me- gallows road…lovely place.  dad-yeah, its where people like to hang out. Lol.
1:12 PM · Apr 17, 2010·Twitter SMS
 
Twitter
Richard Murnane
@vk2sky
Replying to @abigailskendall
@abigailskendall The Gallows seems like a good place to hang out (that *is* why they called it that, isn’t it? 😊
4:39 AM · Jul 14, 2011·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
‘T-Scrap’ Captain Explody
@Xorny
Where’s your favorite place to hang out? - Gallows Ask me anything http://tumblr.com/x4a4yahmkx
6:12 PM · Sep 28, 2011·Tumblr
 
Twitter
Milo Minderbinder
@Crudifixion
A cool place to ‘hang’ out. - Gallows, I reckon.
9:50 AM · May 12, 2012·UberSocial for BlackBerry
 
Twitter
William H. Bonnie
@KingAntrim
The gallows is a great hang out spot.
4:21 AM · May 29, 2012·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
ZAHEER!
@iam_YCee
The gallows, lol get it? “@GivenUpCaring: Synergy @johnero: 17) Favourite Hangout spot”“
3:37 AM · Nov 21, 2012·Twitter for BlackBerry®
     
Twitter
Christy
@crispy_bacon8Alanna: what’s a good place to hang out? 
@Vanfyr_J: the gallows
8:41 AM · May 25, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Tyler Shouse
@shouseyyyyy
My favorite hang out spot is the gallows
12:36 PM · May 6, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/MediocreExperience May 22, 2021
The gallows are a really popular hang out spot if you ask me.
 
Twitter
shrek
@pdqbpdqb1
“the gallows are a really popular hang out spot if you ask me”
2:15 AM · May 23, 2021·Twitter for Android

Posted by Barry Popik
New York City • Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Monday, May 24, 2021 • Permalink


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