“For your entertainment” shouldn’t be confused with “foyer entertainment,” but there are jokes.
“What do you call books in the entranceway to a bookstore? Foyer entertainment” was posted on Reddit—Cleanjokes on November 30, 2019. “Why should you enjoy the music being played at the entrance of a hotel? Because it’s foyer entertainment” was posted on Reddit—Cleanjokes on December 6, 2021.
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/Dyspaereunia November 30, 2019
What do you call books in the entranceway to a bookstore?
Foyer entertainment
Twitter
3AM
@3AM_Jokes
What do you call books in the entranceway to a bookstore?... Foyer entertainment
1:22 AM · Nov 30, 2019·IFTTT
Twitter
Eric Alper
@ThatEricAlper
What do you call vinyl records in the entrance way to a record store?
Foyer entertainment
7:30 AM · Dec 3, 2019·Hootsuite Inc.
Reddit—Cleanjokes
Posted by u/chacham2 December 6, 2021
Why should you enjoy the music being played at the entrance of a hotel?
Because it’s foyer entertainment.
Twitter
Matthew Jacobi
@daloore
Why should you enjoy the music being played at the entrance of a hotel?
Because it’s foyer entertainment.
3:56 AM · Dec 7, 2021·Twitter for Android
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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