And let's not forget that the erstwhile San Francisco
Warriors sported jerseys saying "The City" for many
years.
--Scott
>From:
Mbdlevin@aol.com
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: The City -- San
Francisco
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:43:07 EDT
>
>As a youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was told
by some local
>historian
>that calling San Francisco "The City" went back quite
a ways (Gold Rush?),
>when San Francisco was, I am led to understand, the
only substantial west
>coast city. Presumably you could be anywhere in
California, but also in
>Nevada, parts of the Southwest, the Northwest, and so
forth, and say, "I'm
>traveling to the City," and people knew you were
headed to San Francisco.
>Doug
>--
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