May 2021 saw gas shortages and price increases. The price of lumber also shot up much higher.
“Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is a full tank of unleaded gas and a sheet of plywood” was posted on Facebook by Not Kenny Rogers on May 12, 2021.
“The Powerball Jackpot is now up to a 24 pack of Charmin” is a related joke.
Facebook
Not Kenny Rogers
May 12, 2021 at 6:50 PM ·
Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is a full tank of unleaded gas and a sheet of plywood.
Twitter
Ron Osborn
@RonOsbornOmaha
$Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is a full tank of unleaded gas and a sheet of plywood.$
2:32 PM · May 13, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Facebook
Just An Irish Lass
May 14, 2021 at 6:06 PM ·
Tonight’s
Powerball jackpot is a
full tank of unleaded
gas
and a sheet of
plywood.
Twitter
Sooner Terry
@golfluvr13
Tomorrow’s Powerball jackpot is a full tank of gas and a sheet of plywood. Good luck!
8:25 PM · May 14, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Jon Anderson
@WoodworkFarmer
Tonight’s winner of the Powerball gets a full tank of gas and a sheet of plywood.
11:19 AM · May 15, 2021 from Iowa, USA·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Mike Shaw
@mikeyshaw9
Tonight’s powerball jackpot is a full tank of gas and a sheet of plywood
1:34 PM · May 15, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
@watersedge
@waterse75502493
Replying to @purpledawg40 @naposapo81 and @WSJ
“Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is a full tank of gas and a sheet of plywood!”
Neutral face
7:50 PM · May 21, 2021·Twitter for Android
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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