Big Apple (Fort Worth, TX barbecue restaurant, 1941-1968)
"The Big Apple" was the name of a barbecue restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas. It is uncertain when the restaurant started (and if it had that name at the beginning). "Big Apple…
"The Big Apple" was the name of a barbecue restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas. It is uncertain when the restaurant started (and if it had that name at the beginning). "Big Apple…
"The Big Apple" was the name of a barbecue restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas. It is uncertain when the restaurant started (and if it had that name at the beginning). "Big Apple…
In November 2006, I received the following email. The famous upside-down apple plaque from the 1934 Harlem "Big Apple" club at Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard and 135th Street was…
A drink called "Big Apple" was very briefly the official drink of the Belmont Stakes in 1976. Frank Tynan, general manager of Belmont Park concessions for the Harry M. Stevens Company,…
Okura Holdings Limited owns pachinko parlors under the name of "Big Apple." It's not known when the first "Big Apple" pachinko parlor opened, but they've been around…
The "Big Apple" structure in Colborne, Ontario, opened in 1987 and is the largest apple-shaped structure in the world (40 feet tall). A face was painted on the apple in 2013, and in 2020…
Queensland, Australia has had a "Big Pineapple" structure since 1971. A smaller "Big Apple" (four meters tall) was built in 1978 for a gas station in Applethorpe. In 2003, the…
Robinette's Apple Haus & Winery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a nine-foot-tall apple in its picnic area. The Robinette family bought the farm in 1911, and the Apple Haus (with its…
Astroland amusement park opened in Coney Island in 1962 and closed in 2008. One kiddie ride from 1977 until 2008 was the "Big Apple Coaster." People rode a worm coaster that went in and…
Big Apple is a Pinfari steel family roller coaster located at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). The roller coaster was originally called Mini Apple and was located at…
Masaaki Sato (an artist born in Japan in 1941, and who lived in New York City for nearly 40 years) composed a "Big Apple" sculpture for the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art in Fuefuki,…
Brazilian artist Romero Britto has made many apple sculptures. In 2006, a "Big Apple" sculpture was placed at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, Terminal B. In 2011, Eunice Kennedy…
Brazilian artist Romero Britto has made many apple sculptures. In 2006, a "Big Apple" sculpture was placed at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, Terminal B. In 2011, Eunice Kennedy…
The village of Medina, New York, has a "Big Apple" sculpture in Lions Park. It was completed by sculptor Richard Bannister in 2000. A sign reads: "THIS MONUMENTAL APPLE WAS CREATED…
Brazilian artist Romero Britto has made many apple sculptures. In 2006, a "Big Apple" sculpture was placed at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, Terminal B. In 2011, Eunice Kennedy…
A supper club called The Big Apple operated at South Union Road (between William and Clinton Streets), Cheektowaga, New York, between 1945 and 1976. Cheektowaga is the second-largest suburb of…
A supper club called The Big Apple operated at South Union Road (between William and Clinton Streets), Cheektowaga, New York, between 1945 and 1976. Cheektowaga is the second-largest suburb of…
Meaford, Ontario, has many apple orchards. A "Big Apple" tourist information booth was built in 1974 for Meaford's centennial, and was modeled after the tomato-shaped tourist…
The USS Appalachian was launched on January 29, 1943. From May-July 1946, the ship served as headquarters for press representatives reporting on Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests carried…
The USS Appalachian was launched on January 29, 1943. From May-July 1946, the ship served as headquarters for press representatives reporting on Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests carried…