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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1988 Th Atlanta ioui na ANU CUMS il ti 1 ION Columbia, S.C.t Wants the Credit for Giving New York Its Famous Nickname where the dance became a rage. Word of its popularity spread iC New York, and the Roxy Theater invited 16 students from the university to perform the Big Apple on Aug. 29, 1937. In the next eight months, as described in newspapers and magazines, the dance swept New York, and the students took their act to Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta and even Loudon. Women wore apple-patterned dresses.

Students it Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., hired the Arthur Murray Studio to teach them the steps. The New York Times, in a 1937 article about a White House performance of the dance, said the Big Apple was a "lustily disjointed de scendant of the Virginia reel and square dance, danced late when things get warm and friendly." So popular was the Big Apple dance, Columbia residents say, that the name stuck with the city New York that pushed the steps into the national limelight "I believe New York has tried to take the credit that we should have gotten," Mrs. Cayruth said. cent-a-record jukebox that blared the blues in Fat Sam's Big Apple. "It was the nicest place for black teenagers to go," said Lucre tia Morris Cajruth, a 71-year-old Columbia resident who danced the Big Apple at the black nightclub as a teenager.

Beneath a dome ceiling with remnants of the Orthodox synagogue stained-glass windows with Star" of David the teenagers developed the Big Apple dance, a stomping mix of a boisterous Charleston, jitterbug, Virginia reel and square dance. It is considered the forerunner of the Shag, which is now the state dance. "Slinging over the shoulders, crawling through the legs we were good," Mrs. Cayruth said in a telephone interview. She said white students from the nearby University of South Carolina came to the club to watch and took the steps back to the campus, Mayor Koch, who said the Big Apple was a jazz term that came from Harlem.

"I say that's the official story. Everything else is apocryphal He added. It's the highest form of adulation for other cities to want to copy us." Steven Zeitlin, director of City Lore, the New York Center for Urban Folk Culture, said Columbia's desire for credit reflected the view of New York as the epicenter of America. Call it apple envy, he said. "Cities always define themselves in relation to New York," Mr.

Zeitlin said. "In the early 1980s, Indianapolis had a slogan that said, 'Move over New York, apple is our middle Nonetheless, Columbia residents insist the term began in their town around 1935 on a crowded, dimly lighted dance floor with a 5- Tlxe New Vni Times New York City got the Statue of Liberty from France, the Cloisters from Spain and Babe Ruth from Boston. And it got the nickname Big Apple from Columbia, S.C.? In a recent letter to Mayor Ed Koch, T. Patton Adams, Columbia's mayor, said as much. Mayor Adams believes that it is time New Yorkers acknowledge that the nickname came from a popular-dance, called the Big Apple, that he says originated in Columbia in the 1930s.

I The dance a sort of raucous Charleston is said to have started in nightclub called Fat Sam's Big Apple, which closed in the 1940s. Columbia spent $200,000 renovating the building and in June reopened it as a cultural center. The building, the city's first synagogue, housed a congregation from 1916 to 1933. J'i think they're wrong," said I Test Your Knowledge on U.S. Vice Presidents Quiz SAVE $15.00 OH CLEANING- 5.

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