One shoe—not two—can be found on the sides of highways. A joke was posted on Twitter by ratthew on September 25, 2015:
“To the people who lose one shoe on the side of the highway: Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.”
The quotation has been printed on several images.
Twitter
ratthew
@sucittaM
To the people who lose one shoe on the side of the highway: Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.
9:03 AM - 25 Sep 2015
Twitter
JasonNewnam
@JasonNewnam
To the people who lose one shoe on the side of the highway: Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.
1:14 AM - 26 Sep 2015
Twitter
Rod Alvarenga
@Rod_Boston
To the people who lose one shoe on the side of the highway: Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.
11:43 AM - 28 Sep 2015
Facebook
Rob Z
December 7, 2016 ·
To the people who lose one shoe on the side of the road:
Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.
Thanks.
Twitter
h e i d s
@_heidel_
@ the ppl who lose one shoe on the side of the highway, plz let me know what the rest of your life is like bc I’m curious
8:22 PM - 11 Jun 2018 from Galion, OH
Twitter
💎 Duchess Mandy 💎
@JustA_Grl
To the people who lose one shoe on the highway:
Please tell me what the rest of your life is like.
3:20 PM - 29 Jun 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.
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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