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A similar term to “snowmageddon” is “snowpocalypse” (snow + apocalypse). “Gobblegeddon” (gobble + Armageddon) is when a “snowmageddon” occurs during the week of Thanksgiving.
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Urban Dictionary
snowmageddon
A monumental winter storm, lasting multiple days and resulting in copious amounts of snow and disastrous winter driving conditions.
“did you hear about the snowmageddon arriving on friday? It’s going to be amazing!”
by Bed4rd December 18, 2008
OCLC WorldCat record
The Week on the Hill: Snowmageddon upends the congressional schedule; President Obama proposes a health care summit; and colleagues mourn Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania
Author: J Smallen; J Dick
Edition/Format: Article Article : English
Publication: NATIONAL JOURNAL -WASHINGTON DC- 42, no. 7, (February 13, 2010): 39
OCLC WorldCat record
Snowmageddon : hell has frozen over
Author: John Prince; Rudy Thauberger; Sheldon Wilson; Michael Hogan, (Actor); Laura Harris; All authors
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2012.
Edition/Format: Bluray Video : Videodisc : Blu-ray disc Visual material : English
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
The Miller family discovers a mysterious gift outside their home on Christmas Eve. The gift contains a snow globe with a perfect reflection of their own town inside. When they shake it snow even begins to fall, whatever happens inside the snow globe happens to their town for real. Then buttons on the snow globe unleash terrible disasters on the town and the family must band together and find a way to destroy it, before it’s too late
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.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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