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A collection of essays, Baghdad-by-the-Bay (a term he'd coined to reflect San Francisco's exotic multiculturalism) was published in 1949, and Don't Call It Frisco—after a local judge's 1918 rebuke to an out-of-town petitioner ("No one refers to San Francisco by that title except people from Los Angeles")—appeared in 1953.
Frisco – also the nickname of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, [1] disparaged by Herb Caen and some locals. The word is still used today particularly by San Francisco's Black community. The word is still used today particularly by San Francisco's Black community.
This partial list of city nicknames in California compiles the aliases, sobriquets, mottos and slogans that cities in California are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
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A sunny day in Frisco. In 1995 two men escaped from a prison in Utah. They apparently weren't the brightest bulbs in that they were only four months away from being released anyway – and the escape made them eligible for another fifteen years of rest and relaxation agt public expense.
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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns.The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill).
Frisco’s current state of transition is hostile to artists; it’s been one of the most expensive cities in the country for years, even more so after the 2010s tech boom, and it seems in for a ...