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You are here: Home / Language / How Did the City of New Orleans Get its Nickname “The Big Easy” and Where Did it Come From?

How Did the City of New Orleans Get its Nickname “The Big Easy” and Where Did it Come From?

May 29, 2020 by Karen Hill

It was the jockeys of New Orleans who first began referring to the big-time racetrack in New York as the Big Apple, a phrase popularized by gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

Possibly in response to this, during the 1970s New Orleans gossip columnist Betty Guillaud began referring to her city as the Big Easy.

The Big Easy was originally the name of a long-forgotten jazz club called the Big Easy Hall.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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