“Welcome to Texas. Beware of the Bull” has been quoted (since the 1950s) as being a sign near the Oklahoma border.
8 April 1958, Jefferson (Iowa) Bee, pg. 16, col. 2:
A recent visitor in Texas said he noted a sign reading “Welcome to Texas” as he went across the state line. But then he also noted a sign over on the fence that read: “Beware of the Bull.”
10 March 1971, Charleston (WV) Gazette, pg. 13, col. 5:
TOURIST reports he had always heard a lot about how Texans brag but he dismissed most of it as just rumor until he recently made a trip to Dallas. He was driving, he said, and as he crossed the border he saw a large sign that read: “You Are Now In Texas.” Just a few feet down the highway, he reports, there was another sign. This one read: “Beware of Bull.”
1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas
edited by Donna Ingham
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press
2006
Pg. 89:
You are now entering Texas.
Beware of Bull!
—sign on a ranch fence on the Texas side of the Red River bordering Oklahoma.
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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