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WWW.THESTATE.COM ALZ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2003 THE BIG APPLE Columbia not origin of New York City label 'Big Apple' applied to New York before dance came about By JEFF WILKINSON Staff Writer Sorry to break it to you Columbia, but the Big Apple dance did NOT give New York City its nickname. Some South Carolina peaches are headed north to Manhattan, courtesy of former Columbia Mayor Patton Adams. In 1988, Adams bet then-New York Mayor Ed Koch that the dance was the source. The debate raged in The New York Times and other national media. It even made David Letterman and Dear Abby.

At the time, Koch couldn't "Harlem was known as the Big Apple as the center of jazz and it spread." Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City prove otherwise and sent Adams some New York apples as a gift. It's Adams' turn to pay up. A search by The State of records at the New York Public Library shows the nickname was used in jazz, horse racing and the movies a decade before the swing dance was invented. In fact, Columbia's Big Apple club might have taken its name from the same jazz-age sources. When briefed Tuesday, Adams cheerfully conceded the bet.

But he said he believes the Big Apple dance helped cement the nickname and make its use more widespread. "It gave more substance to the nickname than it had in the past," he said. Adams, who served from 1986 to 1990, said he made the bet, to generate some publicity for Columbia tourism. "It worked. And Mayor Koch and I had a lot of laughs over the issue." Koch, contacted at his law office, said he knew all along the term came from jazz, but couldn't prove it at the time.

"Harlem was known as the Big Apple as the center of jazz and it spread," Koch said. The New York Convention Visitors Bureau formalized the "Big Apple" nickname for the city in a 1971 publicity campaign. Adams originally bet 10 pounds of South Carolina mustard-based barbecue to Koch's New York cheese pizza. But Koch said South Carolina peaches, which he first tasted during his World War II basic training at Camp Croft near Spartanburg, would do just fine. "We would crawl through those peach orchards and I would reach up and steal the biggest.

South Carolina peaches are the best." Koch said six peaches would satisfy the bet. Since the debate raged in 1988, The New York Times archives have been computerized. Research now is much easier. The first reference is in a glossary of Hollywood movie-making terms titled "Slang of Film Men," A SWINGIN' WEEKEND Historic Columbia will sponsor a three-day dance festival dedicated to the Big Apple, with dances and lessons, as part of its 25th Jubilee celebration. For a detailed schedule, or to register, contact Historic Columbia at (803) 252-7742, ext.23, or www.historiccolumbia.org.

Thursday: Jubilee Gala, 6 p.m. to midnight, at Mann-Simons. Art sale, dinner and dancing; Lucretia Cayruth, Frankie Manning and Betty Wood will perform the Big Apple. Tickets are $60 reserved, $75 at the door, or $350 for a table of eight. Friday: 7-11 p.m., Big Apple lesson and dance.

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Although the Big Apple was in use as New York's nickname before the dance was invented, the exact source of the term whether jazz, horse racing or filmmaking is still a mystery. "It's a lot of things," said John Rathe, a research librarian at the New York Public Library. "Was there an Uncle Sam? Did Betsy Ross sew the first American flag? Until somebody invents a time machine, we're not going to find out." Rathe noted that in the jazz and horse-racing world, the term indicated "the place to be." So, in all likelihood, Columbia nightclub owner Frank "Fat Sam" Boyd being hip to things jazz might have named his joint the Big Apple for that very reason. "It's logical," Rathe said. Reach Wilkinson at (803) 771- 8495 or Lexington GREENBAX Dry Cleaning NOW PICKUP AVAILABLE! CLEANING GREENEARTH $150FF FREE Available MC in certain areas.

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