“When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on October 31, 2014. The Halloween saying was posted again on Reddit—Showerthoughts on September 25, 2019.
Reddit—Showerthoughts
u/lauralyla October 31, 2014
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.
Twitter
Geoff Mazeroff
@geoffmazeroff
“Buying candy to hand out as an adult… it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.” #ShowerThoughts
7:41 AM · Oct 31, 2014·Twitter Web Client
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🐝 the other juan ™
@realsomejuan
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.
9:29 AM · Oct 31, 2014·IFTTT
Twitter
ShowerThoughts
@ShowTho
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid. #shower
5:46 PM · Jul 10, 2015·ShowerThoughtsPing
Twitter
Showerthoughts
@rShowerThoughts
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.
7:01 PM · Oct 31, 2016·showerthoughtsBot
Twitter
Showerthoughts
@rShowerThoughts
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you are paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.
4:24 PM · Oct 30, 2017·showerthoughtsBot
Reddit—Showerthoughts
u/cassidyflood September 25, 2019
When you buy Halloween candy to hand out as an adult, it’s like you’re paying for all the free candy you got when you were a kid.
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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