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 March 26, 2021
“Where do you park a camel?”/“In a Camelot.”

A camel riddle is:
 
Q: Where do you park a camel?
A: In a Camelot.

 
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1965.
   
     
Newspapers.com
31 March 1965, The Austin News (Chicago, IL), “Just One Happy Whirl” by Don Madden, pg. 18, col. 1:
You know where to park a camel?...In a Camelot!
 
Newspapers.com
29 May 1988, Miami (FL) Herald, “Salesperson is wound-up star” by Wendy Shaffer, Neighbors sec., pg. 6, col. 1:
“Do you know where to park a camel?” she said as she turned the key and set the toy down in the window. “In a Camelot.”
 
17 January 2001, Washington (DC) Post, pg. C15:
Q: Where do you park a camel?
A: Camelot.
—Thomas Pennington, 8, Falls Church
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/yonka2 August 6, 2016
Where do you park a camel?
The Camelot.
     
Newspapers.com
21 February 2916, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room: Jokes & Riddles,” pg. H3, col. 3:
Where is the best place to park a camel? At Camelot!
Ian, 6
Christ Lutheran School
Costa Mesa
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/ejkhabibi March 26, 2021
Where do you park a camel?
At the Camelot
(My Egyptian father’s fav joke)
COMMENTS
The_Waltesefalcon
Instead of a parking lot it’s a camel lot.
 
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John Scaglione
March 27, 2021 at 4:28 AM ·
I asked my friend in Saudi Arabia where he parks his Camel?
He said, in a Camelot

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityStreets • Friday, March 26, 2021 • Permalink


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