Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
23. Juli 2014 · Around 1920, New York City newspaper reporter John Fitz Gerald, whose beat was the track, heard African-American stable hands in New Orleans say they were going to “the big apple,” a...
- The Forgotten Fire That Leveled New York
The New York City Fire Department was run on a volunteer...
- The Forgotten Fire That Leveled New York
20. Jan. 2024 · Die Stadt aus den USA New York wird auch Big Apple genannt. Warum ist das so? Die früheste Quelle stammt aus dem Jahr 1909. Von Gábor Paál | Text und Audio dieses Beitrags stehen unter der ...
Big Apple. "The Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sportswriter for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.
New York City is known by many nicknames—such as “the City that Never Sleeps” or “Gotham”—but the most popular one is probably “the Big Apple.” How did this nickname come about? Although uses of the phrase are documented in the early 1900s, the term first became popular in the 1920s when John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer ...
11. März 2020 · In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the nickname started to become well known outside of the northeast, as New York City's jazz musicians began referring to New York City as the "Big Apple" in their songs. An old saying in show business was "There are many apples on the tree, but only one Big Apple." New York City was (and is) the ...
Big Apple ( englisch für Großer Apfel) ist der Spitzname der US-amerikanischen Metropole New York. Zur Herkunft dieser Bezeichnung existieren verschiedene Theorien: Der Name Big Apple tauchte erstmals 1909 in Edward S. Martins Buch The Wayfarer in New York auf.
8. Jan. 2018 · New York has been nicknamed the "Big Apple," although the name has no reference to the growing of apples. The nickname the "Big Apple" primarily gained relevance in the 1920s through horse racing, as reported in the New York Morning Telegraph by John J. Fitz Gerald.