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 June 26, 2024
“The 6 year old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper. ‘You mean like pirates?’”

“We really used to print out 4 pages from MapQuest and travel like pirates” is a saying that has been printed on many images. Many drivers now use GPS.
 
“Me: ‘What did we do before google?’ Elaine: ‘Carried around paper maps. Like a pirate.’ Me: ‘So before google we were pirates.’ #beachtime” was posted on X/Twitter by Lauren A. Van Gerwen on June 20, 2013. “Our parents were really printing off pages of directions off Mapquest and driving while reading that shit” was posted on X/Twitter by “your favorite nail dealer” on April 11, 2019.
 
“@gregoceallaigh: The 6 year old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper. ‘You mean like pirates?!?!????’” was posted on X/Twitter by Stacey Jaros on September 5, 2021. The original tweet, from September 4, 2021, is now private.
 
“Niggas really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates” was posted on X/Twitter by fresh on August 2, 2022, and this received over 114,000 likes. “We really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates” was posted on X/Twitter by Kev🇰🇳 on August 2, 2022.
 
   
Wikipedia: MapQuest
MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps.
     
X/Twitter
Lauren A. Van Gerwen
@lauverset
Me: “What did we do before google?” Elaine: “Carried around paper maps. Like a pirate.” Me: “So before google we were pirates.” #beachtime
7:43 PM · Jun 20, 2013
 
X/Twitter
your favorite nail dealer
@PureGolddddddd
Our parents were really printing off pages of directions off Mapquest and driving while reading that shit.
11:03 AM · Apr 11, 2019
     
X/Twitter
Stacey Jaros
@srj68
Like pirates. 🤣  “@gregoceallaigh: The 6 year old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper.
“You mean like pirates?!?!????””
8:58 PM · Sep 5, 2021
 
X/Twitter
Ms. JiJi
@MsJiJionline
The 6 year old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper. “You mean like pirates?!?!” 😂
6:49 PM · Sep 14, 2021
 
Facebook
Katelyn Harding ·
September 23, 2021 at 7:02 AM ·
Tweet from Greg O Ceallaigh, User Name @GregOCeallaigh
The 6-year-old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper. “You mean like pirates?!?!?!???”
Submitted by Jimmy Podsim
(The tweet is shown.—ed.)
 
X/Twitter
Tori Sprung
@torisprung
Chatting to my nephew about Google maps. I go onto explain how when I was little we had paper maps that we kept in the glove compartment
He thinks… then replies…
“Like a pirate?”
3:57 AM · Apr 28, 2022 from Liverpool, England
 
X/Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
The 6 year old flatly refused to believe that we used to navigate using maps made out of paper.
“You mean like pirates?!?!????”
5:59 AM · Jun 14, 2022
 
X/Twitter
fresh
@fauxfresh
Niggas really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates
11:04 AM · Aug 2, 2022
 
X/Twitter
Kev🇰🇳
@theproducer_kev
We really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates.
1:26 PM · Aug 2, 2022
     
Facebook
Jon Cyprian
August 22, 2022 at 12:47 PM ·
We really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates 😂☠
 
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navallint88
11 sep 2022
Can’t believe people used to print out 4 pages of Mapquest and travel like pirates
     
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thingsthatamuseme
2 apr 2023
We really used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates.
 
X/Twitter
🇨🇦ƬӨЯᄃΉIΛ🇫🇷🇮🇹
@kingtorc
Remember when we used to print out 4 pages from Mapquest and travel like pirates?
3:42 PM · Apr 24, 2024
 
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus
Free as birds
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
We really used to print out 4 pages
from Mapquest and travel like pirates.
6:35 PM · Jun 30, 2024

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