How You Like Dem Apples?

AP photographer Mark Lennihan took this photograph of 13-year-old Jeremy Conroy selling apples in front of the New York Stock Exchange today. Apparently Conroy was "reenacting a scene of boys selling apples during the Great Depression." Like this one.

And NYC is not nicknamed The Big Apple because of apple selling--we subscribe to Barry Popik's explanation, which has roots from 1920s track racing. New York Morning Telegraph track writer John Fitzgerald wrote, "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York," and Popik explains, "The 'Big Apple' racing circuit had meant 'the big time,' the place where the big money was to be won."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 30, 2008 6:06 PM

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Amelia Bedelia

I think that he's a pretty smart kid. That's pretty sophisticated content for a thirteen year old.

WorksInDUMBO

1.) This is not news. This is just dumb.

2.) I don't understand what point he is making.

3.) He's a KID, he has no idea whatsoever what it's like to be unemployed.

yes, please spit on him.

spiritross

i don't think they were selling apples for a $1.00 each back in the depression

Also the kid was probably not wearing designer sneakers and jeans

I hope somebody spit on this kid

If i pass by him i know i will

chubbyemu

Eh give him a break. Ballsy for standing out there like that. I wouldn't have, even with a better outfit on. Better than the same old 'protesting billionaires' or whatever bullshit that people have been doing year after year. Creative.

tingo

That kid, while you have to give it to him for theatrics, is an ass. He most likely has no idea what brought this crisis on, who, or why. I was at a protest the other day downtown. I'd say 20% were genuinely pissed about what led up to the bailout. The others were either protesting because they just hated that people had money, were stupid students looking for drama, or crazies with tinfoil hats.

zodak

lol, berniegoetz, NannyState, Think twice

Think2wice

-"Dude are you, like, being sarcastic?"

-"I don't even know anymore."

-from The Simpsons

chopp3r

Wachovia's trading for about an apple a share...

NannyState

He should be selling shares of Wachovia instead. For the same money, you'd get a kid with a better P/E ratio.

chopp3r

Better if he hadn't included a Depression-era photo of some jobless guy selling apples on his sign like nobody would get it otherwise.

Spiny

I think the clothes are his best attempt at evoking the clothing styles of the Great Depression -- not necessarily hipsters circa 2005. He borrowed that sport coat. It's way too big for him. Look at the sleeve.

Barbj8

Crap. I went to work!

frankbooth

Dear Barbj8, It's a holiday in New York today.

Barbj8

Of course he's unemployed...he's 13! He's supposed to be in school..grade 8, maybe grade 9!

MrCow

different clothes would make this more effective

Shinobi Shaw

#4 I think we would take the kid more seriously if he was not emulating Hipster Douchebags circa 2005.

I buy no apples from trust-fund teens.

dr zippy

Kid's lucky he didn't get the shit kicked out of him.

Ared

That's a LOT for an apple.

berniegoetz

How Ironic! He looks like totally like one of those dudes from like the great depression or like whatever that time was when dudes rode trains all day and played harmonicas. Cooool. My roommate Gator plays harmonica and can open Pabst bottles with his toenails. ROCK! I wonder who did his hair. Hey, I have those shoes, too! Cool!