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 April 14, 2011
Wal-Fart or Walfart (Walmart nickname)

Walmart is a chain retail store that was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. Walmart has been nicknamed “Wal-Fart” (also “Wal Fart,” “WalFart” and “Walfart”) since at least 1994.
 
Walmart has also been nicknamed “Wally World” (cited in print since at least 1991) and “Wally Martinez” (cited in print since at least 1998).
 
Kmart has been nicknamed “K-Fart” since at least 1995.
   
   
Wikipedia: Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company was the world’s largest public corporation in 2010 by revenue.
 
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer Walmart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It also owns and operates the Sam’s Club retail warehouses in North America.
 
Walmart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names.
   
Zazzle.com
WAL-FART T-Shirt
 
Urban Dictionary
Walfart
Buy clothing from cheap brands induced in child labor!
(...)
by Fryen Pan Nov 26, 2009
   
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Sean Rabbitt)
Date: 5 Sep 1994 00:57:47 GMT
Local: Sun, Sep 4 1994 7:57 pm
Subject: Re: Lion King cards (Please read) ANSWE
 
I bought about 30 packs of LK Cards at WalMart in Sandusky, OH (home of CEDAR POINT YEAH!), and NONE of these packs have had the coloring cards.  And yes, WalFart cards do have the special cards because I have 4 foils and 2 popups from these packs.
         
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Daniel Alain Nazar)
Date: 1996/09/11
Subject: Re: Animaniacs Albumn!
 
They should be in the kids’s section of any decent music store (Wal Fart is NOT a decent music store)
     
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From: “Shawn Houze”


Date: 1997/08/19
Subject: Re: Elvis / Barbie 2-Pack ??
 
I saw it at Wal Fart for $69.00
 
Google Books
Walking Toward Home
By James. Kibler
Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co.
2004
Pg. 238:
He called the former Sprawl-Mart and Swill-Mart when he was in a good mood, and Wal-Fart when he was not, for Chauncey understood clearly enough what these faceless megacompanies stood for and would mean.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityWork/Businesses • Thursday, April 14, 2011 • Permalink


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