“Waiter: Do you wanna box for that? Diner: No, but I’ll wrestle you for it.”

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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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

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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Entry from December 21, 2017

“Waiter: Do you wanna box for that? Diner: No, but I’ll wrestle you for it.”

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Frank Berry Jr.‏
@FrankBerry
At the end of my meal last night:
Waiter: “You wanna box for that?”
Me: “No. But I’ll WRESTLE you for it.”
5:46 PM - 2 Jul 2009

Reddit—Dad Jokes
Waiter: Do you wanna box for that? (self.dadjokes)
submitted December 22, 2017 by porichoygupto
You: I don’t box. How about a quick round of poker?

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