“Sip sip hooray” (sip + hip hip hooray) is a drinking saying that has been printed on many images. “Sip, sip hooray!” has been cited in print since at least 1913. “Sip! Sip! Hurrah!” has been cited in print since at least 1928.
Wikipedia: Hip hip hooray
Hip hip hooray (also hippity hip hooray; Hooray may also be spelled and pronounced hoorah, hurrah, hurray etc.) is a cheer called out to express congratulation toward someone or something, in the English speaking world and elsewhere.
21 September 1913, San Francisco (CA) Sunday Examiner, “A Few Minutes With Harry Breen,” City Life sec., pg. 2, col. 6:
Now, dear father won’t have to SIP, SIP, HOORAY!
16 March 1928, Capital Journal (Salem, OR), “Good Evening: Sips for Supper” by Don Upjohn, pg. 1, col. 2:
We hear the Gervais Girls’ Admiration Association has a new yell—
It goes like this—
Sip! Sip! Hurrah!
9 September 1928, Sunday World-Hera;d (Omaha, NE), “Over Here” by Erick, Magazine sec., pg. 12, col. 1:
If the wets want a slogan what’s the matter with “Sip, Sip, Hooray!”
20 July 1934, Detroit (MI) Evening Times, pg. 19, col. 2 ad:
“Home, dripping. drooling and thirsting! A long tall drink awaits, m’lud! Ah! What a girl—what a pal! A big, easy chair and Sip! Sip! Hurrah!
(Old Mr. Boston Distilled Dry Gin.—ed.)
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March 1939, Good Housekeeping (New York, NY), pg. 120, col. 1 ad:
Sip-sip hooray!
(Heinz Chicken Noodle Coup.—ed.)
11 March 1941, Hartford (CT) Daily Courant, pg. 17, col. 7 ad:
Gibson’s (Rye.—ed.)
“GREAT FROM THE 1ST SIP.”
SIP, SIP, HOORAY!
19 September 1944, Boston (MA) Daily Globe, pg. 15, col. 7 ad:
Sip, Sip, Hooray!
(Carstairs White Deal whiskey.—ed.)
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JUNE 7 2018
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8. “Sip, sip hooray.” — Unknown
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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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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