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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“No bill is truly dead until the final gavel falls”
“Right plant, right place” (landscaping adage)
Straw-Hat Circuit
Summer Stock
Street of the Midnight Sun (Broadway)
“Go peddle your papers!” (go away)
Aspirin Alley (Broadway)
“Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?”
Fun-durr-mentals
Big Artery or Hardened Artery or Main Artery (Broadway)
“Comedy doesn’t travel well”
Wailing Wall Street (Wailing Wall + Wall Street)
“Tastes like cardboard”
Chow Mein Stem (Broadway; Mott Street)
“It’s not brain surgery”
“It’s not rocket science”
FBI (football intelligence/instincts)
Grimbo (Greece/Greek + limbo)
Disinfowars (disinfo + InfoWars)
“You can’t push yourself forward by patting yourself on the back”
“Tomorrow doesn’t care what today’s food tasted like”
“Nothing to it, but to do it”
Hack-a-Player or Hack-a-Shaq (basketball foul strategy)
“The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth”
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try”
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal”
“I’d rather be lucky than good”
“The best pitch is strike one” (baseball adage)
“The fourth win in a series is always the most difficult to get”
“It rains on rich and poor alike, but the rich have better umbrellas”
“When does it rain money?”/“Whenever there’s some change in the weather.”
Great Unravelling
“The engineer sees the glass as twice the size it needs to be” (joke)
Islosers (Islanders + losers)
Make-or-Miss League (NBA basketball)
Glance Journalism
“The Stanley Cup is the toughest championship to win”
“Swallow the whistle” (not call a penalty)
Bulb Belt (Broadway)
Zionist World Order (Zionist + New World Order); ZWO
“What? And leave show business?” (joke)
Incandescent District (Broadway)
Tungsten Territory (Broadway)
Never A Straight Answer (NASA nickname)
“Did you hear that joke about the butter?” (joke)
“Blame the Indian, not the arrow”
Power Steak
Can Hear Every Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips (Chevrolet backronymic nickname)
Disaster Divide
Cannaboutique (cannabis + boutique)
“Not even God can hit a 1-iron” (golf joke)
Jewish Telegram (“Start worrying—details to follow”)