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Referencing this local history in the 1970s, local newspaper columnist Steve Otto planted the idea that if New York City is the "Big Apple", then Tampa must be the "Big Guava".
Examples of this could be seen many times throughout history, such as the forbidden apple from The Garden of Eden, the apple from Snow White, Newton’s discovery of gravity through the falling apple, the Swiss folk story of Wilhelm Tell and the apple placed on his son’s head and even New York City, often dubbed the Big Apple.
Like fellow cast-member, Michele Knotz, she also competed in the Big Apple Anime Fest's Anime Idol Voice-Acting Contest; she was the first runner-up.
The other female romantic counterparts of the three sailors on shore leave in the Big Apple will be Leslie Kritzer as Hildy Esterhazy and Jennifer Laura Thompson as Claire DeLoone.
Lake Okeechobee is famously mentioned in Hank Williams Jr.'s number one Billboard country hit song "Dixie on My Mind", when comparing country life to big city life: "I've always heard lots about the big apple / So I thought I'd come up here and see. / But all I've seen so far is one big hassle / wish I was camped out on the Okeechobee'".