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 August 12, 2020
“Too Cold To Keep Changing Sign. Sin Bad. Jesus Good. Details Inside” (church sign)

“Too Hot/Cold To Keep Changing Sign. Sin Bad. Jesus Good. Details Inside” is a jocular church sign that has been printed on many images. “Too Hot To Keep Changing Sign. Sin Bad. Jesus Good. Details Inside” was posted on tumblr—blondmisanthrope on July 15, 2016. “First United Methodist Church” can be read on the sign, although the location of the church was not provided.
   
“Drove by a church that said ~ ‘too cold to keep changing the sign. Sin bad jesus good, details inside’” was posted on Twitter by oche on January 8, 2018
 
   
tumblr—blondmisanthrope
First United Methodist Church
TOO HOT TO KEEP
CHANGING SIGN
SIN BAD JESUS GOOD
DETAILS INSIDE
134,887 notes
Jul 15th, 2016
 
Twitter
Alison Crawford
@acrawford61
@caitdani_ “too hot to keep changing the sign. Sin bad. Jesus good. Details inside.”
11:50 PM · Jul 16, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Monika
@GreenSkyOverMe
Camera Sin bad Jesus good Details inside https://tmblr.co/ZcOntx29PqLFo (First United Methodist Church.—ed.)
5:50 AM · Jul 17, 2016·Tumblr
 
Twitter
Damn Gamora
@dumbeeleedore
My favorite church sign is “too hot to keep changing sign. Sin bad. Jesus good. Details inside”
9:24 AM · Jul 17, 2016 from South Carolina, USA·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
S. Jae-Jones (JJ)⁷
@sjaejones
Sin bad, Jesus good, details inside. https://tmblr.co/ZmSYWj29Qe4ON
1:20 PM · Jul 17, 2016·Tumblr
 
Twitter
Prof500
@prof500
Church sign: “Too hot to keep changing the sign. Sin bad. Jesus good. Details inside, Sunday 11 AM.”
2:25 PM · Jul 17, 2016·Twitter for iPad
         
AL.com
‘Sin bad. Jesus Good. Details inside.’ We want to see your favorite church marquee messages
Updated Mar 06, 2019; Posted Aug 12, 2016
By Ben Flanagan | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Trinity United Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, located about a block down Bryant Drive from Bryant-Denny Stadium, often posts lighthearted messages like this one on their marquee out front. (Ben Flanagan/AL.com)
(...)
TOO HOT TO KEEP CHANGING SIGN
SIN BAD. JESUS GOOD.
DETAILS INSIDE
 
Needless to say, the church’s hilariously lighthearted sign caught the attention of many, some of whom shared the image on social media.
   
Daily Mail (London, UK)
‘Too hot to keep changing the sign… Sin bad, Jesus good’: Heatwave leads Indianapolis clergy to leave comedy message on church welcome board
. Staff at Indianapolis church say it’s too hot to change the welcome board
. Instead, Fall Creek Baptist Church just summarised religion in four words
. Following the comedy message, they invited passers-by in for a chat
By CAROLINE MCGUIRE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:16 EDT, 16 August 2016 | UPDATED: 09:23 EDT, 16 August 2016
 
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By Tim Moore
New York, NY: Random House
2018
Pg. ?:
‘TOO HOT TO KEEP CHANGING SIGN.. SIN BAD, JESUS GOOD, DETAILS INSIDE.’ Now that I liked.
 
Twitter
oche
@ocheypooh19
Drove by a church that said~ “too cold to keep changing the sign. Sin bad jesus good, details inside”
9:22 PM · Jan 8, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Michelle DiPoala Kowalski
@SuperLowBudge
I Red heartmy neighborhood. The church (corner N. Beacon and Coolidge) posts encouragement ‘n inspiration for all, regardless of faith or even if yer a godless tart like me. Right now it says “Too cold to keep changing sign. Sin bad. Jesus Good. Details inside.” Love-you gesture
@allstonratcity
11:17 AM · Jan 19, 2018·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
Ben Burgess
@BentBurgess
I saw a church in Poplar Bluff with the sign “It’s too cold to keep changing the sign. Sin bad, Jesus good. Details inside.”
4:30 PM · Feb 28, 2020·Twitter for Android

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