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 September 13, 2020
“What do you call a fast escalator?”/“An escasooner.”

An “escalator” does not involve being “later,” but there are jokes. “I have reached a new low. ‘Do you use stairs or escalators?’ ‘I prefer an escasooner’” was posted on Twitter by Devon Mace on March 26, 2014. “If escalators were faster they’d be escasooner” was posted on Twitter by Mike Callan on March 9, 2015.
     
“A fast escalator is called an escasooner” was posted on Twitter by Corey on April 12, 2018. “What do you call a fast escalator? An escasooner” was posted on Reddit—Dadjokes on July 22, 2018.
     
“When you walk forward on an escalator it becomes an escasooner” was posted on Twitter by “slate” on March 6, 2020.
   
         
Wikipedia: Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal.
 
Escalators are often used around the world in places where lifts would be impractical, or they can be used in conjunction with them. Principal areas of usage include department stores, shopping malls, airports, transit systems (railway/railroad stations), convention centers, hotels, arenas, stadiums and public buildings.
 
Twitter   
Devon Mace
@DVMace09
I have reached a new low. “Do you use stairs or escalators?” “I prefer an escasooner.”
5:22 AM · Mar 26, 2014·Mobile Web (M2)
   
Twitter
Mike Callan
@grizzair
If escalators were faster they’d be escasooner.
10:16 PM · Mar 8, 2015·Twitter for Android
   
Twitter
Corey
@corsal
A fast escalator is called an escasooner
11:32 AM · Apr 12, 2018·Twitter Web Client
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/TooSpicyforyoWifey July 22, 2018
What do you call a fast escalator?
An escasooner
COMMENTS
xeirxes
In the same way, fast stairs may be called glances
   
Twitter
keepingitcreel
@Keepingitcreel
What do you call a fast escalator? An escasooner
1:43 AM · Jul 22, 2018·IFTTT
 
Twitter
Dad Jokes
@Dadsaysjokes
What do you call a really fast escalator?
An escasooner…
11:31 AM · Jul 22, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
slate
@PleaseBeGneiss
When you walk forward on an escalator it becomes an escasooner
11:59 AM · Mar 6, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
👁Mouth👁
@benjaminalons0
When you walk forward on an escalator it becomes an escasooner
9:56 AM · Mar 18, 2020 from Oyster Bay, NY·Twitter for iPhone
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/Joshy-Squashy September 12, 2020
What do you call a fast escalator?
An Escasooner

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