Bill,
Don is definitely still doing the tour. This article from
Sunday's paper is about it:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/06/CMGAB98G4B1.DTL
On the Frisco thing, it comes from Herb Cain. He even wrote a
book titled
"Don't Call it Frisco":
http://www.mistersf.com/literary/index.html?litcaen06.htm
The argument is bascially that it's not respectful enough.
Here's a little more dope I found in a newspaper
article:
Many credit Friscophobia to the recently deceased newspaper
columnist and San Francisco icon, Herb Caen, whose first
book, published in 1953, was
"Don't Call it Frisco." Caen was considered by many to be the
recognized authority on what was, and what was not, beneath
the city's dignity, and to him, Frisco was intolerable.
"Not Frisco but San Francisco," he wrote in typical fashion
in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Caress each Spanish
syllable, salute our Italian Saint. Don't say Frisco and
don't say San-Fran-Cis-Co. That's the way Easterners, like
Larry King pronounce it. It's more like SanfrnSISco."
--Mark
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