"Big Apple"=Broadway (1927 in Google Books)

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FYI, here's a new "Big Apple"=Broadway in 1927, courtesy of Google Books.  
The book is 80 years old and the copyright (75 years?) has expired, but I still  
can't read the entire page. Thanks, Google.
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>From MSN Books, there's a 1912 "big apple"=top of the barrel, something  well 
known in the early 1900s. The 1945 New Orleans citation below from  GUMBO 
YA-YA probably was influenced by the 1937 Big Apple dance. 
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_Behind the Curtains of the Broadway Beauty  Trust - Page 189_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=y1JdnSEcnw8C&q="the+big+apple"+date:1916-1936&dq="the+big+a
pple"+date:1916-1936&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by William Adino Page - 1927 - 227 pages
Angels are  popularly supposed to have wings— and the angels of Broadway 
usually 
use  their wings to fly away from the "Big Apple"—as Broadway is sometimes  
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_A Cowboy  Detective_ 
(http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q="the%20big%20apple"&filter=all&t=sgtQO1fDGrevY3mUylqaZQ)   
by Charles A. Siringo · 1912 · 572 pages · 100% viewable
Look out boys, little apples always go to  the bottom of the barrel!" Of 
course this put himself in  the big apple  class, which caused a roar of laughter.
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_Gumbo Ya-ya_ 
(http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q="the%20big%20apple"%20rampart&filter=all&t=INFdd3LpbZbfM1_Ydx9yUQ)   
by Louisiana Writers' Project · 1945 · 644 pages ·  100% viewable
One call offered the information that the Devil Man was in the Big  Apple, a 
popular Negro rendezvous in  South Rampart Street, doing the Big  Apple. There 
were evidently several Devil  Men at work ...
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_http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=%22the%20big%20apple%22&
filter=all&start=1&t=GCcTm_ckoKsrgeSY6b219w&sq=%22the%20big%20apple%22_ 
(http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q="the%20big%20apple"&filter=all
&start=1&t=GCcTm_ckoKsrgeSY6b219w&sq="the%20big%20apple")  
Gumbo  Ya-ya
by Louisiana Writers'  Project
Houghton Mifflin  Company, (1945)

Pg. 91.
 



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