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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Brooklyn born, Brooklyn bred, and when I die I’ll be Brooklyn dead
“Everything on a Bagel” (Ess-a-Bagel)
“Your Neighborhood Store And So Much More” (Key Food)
“Since 1898” (Entenmann’s)
Jints (Giants)
How am I doing?
V-J Day Kiss (August 14, 1945)
“Eat at Joe’s” (Joe’s Restaurant)
Calendar Girl
Tenement House
“New Yorkers Since 1784” (Bank of New York)
Pizza Bagel
“Keeping Up With the Joneses”
J-E-T-S (Just End The Season)
Joe Doakes
“From Nine to Five”
“Jeet jet?” / “No, jew?”
Go West, Young Man
Big Durian (summary)
“Who ordered the clean glass?” (Myron Cohen joke about Stage Deli)
“New York is Zabar’s, Zabar’s is New York” (Zabar’s)
“The Sturgeon King” (Barney Greengrass)
Pipe Layer
Hudson Square
Hudson Heights
Kosherfest
“White Shoe” Firm
“Mainhattan” (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
“Now That’s HIP” (Health Insurance Plan of Greater NY)
Double-Decker
Automat (or, Automated Restaurant)
Goo Goo (Good Government)
Sis-boom-bah (skyrocket cheer)