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IS THIS YOUR "FRISCO"?  HOUSING DIARY
The rents for apartments and hotels here are high! In these times, San Fran may have even surpassed New York City as the most expensive place to live in the USA. It's really nerve-wracking to try to find an apartment here, especially when you're short on both time and money. More... MUNI TALES Excepting the kind that run on cables, this is not the most car-friendly city in the world, which is either bad or good depending on how you feel about cars, and how often you like to drive. Fortunately, we have it made up for by having public transportation reaching just about everywhere. More... CHEAP EATS REVIEWS There's eateries in "Frisco" that'll accommodate all budgets--even none at all... More... LITERATURE: SF IN SF Lots of science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy stories have been written that used the city of San Fran as a setting. Does this really surprise anyone? More... STREET HISTORY
Though it's only been around for a few centuries, making it a young city compared with others on Earth, San Francisco has a fascinating history - one which shows us that the "wild" element that the City is known for definitely pre-dated the 1960s. More... CITY SPIRITUALITY GETTING INVOLVED
When you have time for it. volunteer work can actually be pretty cool...and it can give back to you what you put into it. More... CITY SEXUALITY
Everyone knows San Francisco is highly populated by single men and women, and is known for the tendency for its people to be "sex positive"... More... |
 Welcome to San Francisco and Frisco.com Contact: friscocom@sbcglobal.net This web site is new, unfunded, understaffed (if at all), and under sporadic development. Be sure to check back and see what grows here. And please email us with comments and suggestions. “DON'T CALL IT FRISCO” Like most of the world's famous cities, San Francisco has a few nicknames. The Big Apple, the Windy City, Motor City are almost universally recognized in the U.S. Some city nicknames are not quite so well known: Sacto for California's capital, The Big Orange for Los Angeles, The Square Mile for London, The City of Big Shoulders for Chicago. The most famous cities have multiple nicknames; New York City has at least six. San Francisco, of course, has its share of nicknames, and more than its share of controversy regarding at least one of them. The “Frisco” nickname may have originated based on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, which was often abbreviated as "the Frisco line". That railway was acquired by another in 1980, and its old Oklahoma depot turned into a museum. Mickey Newbury's famous song "Frisco Depot" refers to it, and reminds us that "Frisco" has always been a "mighty rich city", even half a century ago. You may have heard that it's bad form to call the city of San Francisco by the name "Frisco". Both the moniker and the contention have a long history. The idea of "Frisco" being an improper name for the City received its greatest boost from the late, famous San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, whose book of collected columns was titled "Don't Call It Frisco". When later asked about this in an interview, he did retract this admonition. Some think that "Frisco" was once the uncontested nickname for the City, but in fact the debate has a history older than anyone reading this, and may yet outlive us all. Emperor Norton, the famous San Francisco eccentric of the mid-1800’s, railed against it, and there was even a ladies' group in the reconstruction period following the 1906 earthquake dedicated to expunging the name. In 1918 Judge Joseph Morgan of the Superior Court of the California in San Francisco rebuked and threatened a Los Angeles resident for using the term in testimony in his court.
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