MattPie Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 In another thread, city nicknames came up. Ft. Worth is apparently Panther City, Buffalo is the Nickel City, Binghamton is Parlor City, Rochester is Smugtown. Post you favorite city nicknames here! (it's the off-season) Quote
Marvin Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Columbus, Ohio is Cow Town. Detroit, Michigan is Motown. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is Steel City. Denver, Colorado is Mile High City. Quote
ubkev Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 San Francisco is San Fran. The locals love it when you call it this, trust me! 2 Quote
LabattBlue Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 I’ve never heard Buffalo called the “Nickel City”. Queen City is the common nickname. Quote
K-9 Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Las Vegas - Sin City New Orleans - The Big Easy Denver - Mile High City Quote
Zamboni Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_city_nicknames_in_the_United_States … and there you have it 2 Quote
PerreaultForever Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Not American, but close to Buffalo, Hamilton (where I grew up) is called The Hammer. 1 Quote
steveoath Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Glasgow - Dear Green Place Edinburgh - Auld Reekie Aberdeen - The Granite City Dundee - City of the three Js Perth - The Fair city Inverness - Capital of the highlands 1 2 Quote
French Collection Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 2 hours ago, steveoath said: Edinburgh - Auld Reekie Sounds like my knees in the morning. 3 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, MattPie said: In another thread, city nicknames came up. Ft. Worth is apparently Panther City, Buffalo is the Nickel City, Binghamton is Parlor City, Rochester is Smugtown. Post you favorite city nicknames here! (it's the off-season) Concord NH: "City in a Coma" Manchester, NH: "Manch Vegas" Edited May 13, 2023 by PromoTheRobot 1 Quote
Eleven Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 (edited) 9 hours ago, LabattBlue said: I’ve never heard Buffalo called the “Nickel City”. Queen City is the common nickname. "Queen City" is a common nickname for the second-largest city in a lot of states. You've really never heard "nickel city"? https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=nickel+city&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#ip=1 (Note that the one business that isn't local is a Buffalo bar in Texas.) Edited May 13, 2023 by Eleven 2 Quote
Pimlach Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 10 hours ago, ubkev said: San Francisco is San Fran. The locals love it when you call it this, trust me! The really like when you call it Frisco. That’s also very popular there. 10 hours ago, LabattBlue said: I’ve never heard Buffalo called the “Nickel City”. Queen City is the common nickname. Truckers used that term on the CB radio. Quote
Pimlach Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 10 hours ago, MattPie said: In another thread, city nicknames came up. Ft. Worth is apparently Panther City, Buffalo is the Nickel City, Binghamton is Parlor City, Rochester is Smugtown. Post you favorite city nicknames here! (it's the off-season) I went to cawledge in Rochester. Never heard smug town. The Lilac City was its name, or something like that. 1 Quote
Pimlach Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Marvin said: Columbus, Ohio is Cow Town. Detroit, Michigan is Motown. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is Steel City. Denver, Colorado is Mile High City. St Louis the Gateway City Cow Town - I have heard Kansas City, Tulsa, and Fort Worth all get this name. NYC - Big Apple Boston - Beantown Philadelphia - City of Brotherly Love or Philthy Detriot - Motown, Motor City Pittsburgh - Steel City Chicago - Windy City Los Angeles - City of the Angels, City of Lost Angels, La La Land Las Vegas - Lost Wages, Sin City Cleveland - Mistake on the Lake Cincinnati - Queen City Atlanta - Hot’ Lanta Buffalo - Queen City of the Great Lakes, City of Good Neighbors Edited May 13, 2023 by Pimlach 1 Quote
JoeSchmoe Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 18 minutes ago, Pimlach said: 10 hours ago, ubkev said: San Francisco is San Fran. The locals love it when you call it this, trust me! The really like when you call it Frisco. That’s also very popular there. They sound like fun people! 8 hours ago, PerreaultForever said: Not American, but close to Buffalo, Hamilton (where I grew up) is called The Hammer. Its also called Steel City. Quote
bunomatic Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 I’ve heard Toronto is known as losertown. Well last night that greasy looking guy at the end of the bar with the pencil thin mustache kept repeating that as he cried into his beer. 6 Quote
Doohicksie Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, MattPie said: In another thread, city nicknames came up. Ft. Worth is apparently Panther City, Buffalo is the Nickel City, Binghamton is Parlor City, Rochester is Smugtown. Post you favorite city nicknames here! (it's the off-season) Panther City comes from a dig from a 19th century Dallas lawyer who came to Fort Worth and claimed it was such a lazy little town that a panther was sleeping in the middle of a downtown street. Fort Worth and Dallas hate each other so it was only natural that Fort Worth adopt the intended insult as a badge of honor. How much does Fort Worth hate Dallas? The original Fort Worth mogul, Amon Carter, who started the newspaper that is now the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, would sometimes have business meetings in Dallas. He would pack a sack lunch so that he wouldn't have to spend a dime in Dallas. Panther City is becoming a common name for businesses around here. There is a Panther Island brewery for instance; the ironic thing is that it's not on an island.... yet. At some point it will be because Fort Worth is going to dig a diversion channel for the Trinity River that will cut off a loop in the river's course that will allow Fort Worth to develop the resulting island into something like San Antonio's Riverwalk (the new channel will provide flood control, isolating the loop and preventing flooding to allow development right up to the river as was done in San Antonio almost a hundred years ago). Fort Worth also has the nickname of Funky Town; in some ways it has that Austin vibe embodied in the "Keep Austin Weird" motto. Austin is moving on and becoming a big city so some of the "weird" people are making Fort Worth funky instead. We went to J&J's Oyster Bar for dinner yesterday. Being a seafood place, there's a bit of a Louisiana vibe. The Professional Bull Riding championships started yesterday at Dickies Arena, so there were some (real) cowboys there in boots, spurs, jeans and cowboy hats. There was a preppie couple from TCU there on a date, and a couple of hispanic families where there too. That diversity, I think, is what Make Fort Worth Funky (and the associated "Funky Town" moniker) means. Besides Panther City and Funky Town, Fort Worth nicknames include Cowtown (because of its history as a trail head for cattle drives) and Queen City of the Prairie. Speaking of Queen City, I found this list of Queen Cities in the US: Gadsden, Alabama Selma, Alabama or Queen City of the Blackbelt Tuscaloosa, Alabama Anchorage, Alaska Camden, Arkansas or Queen City of the Ouachita River Eureka, California or Queen City of the Ultimate West Denver, Colorado or Queen City of the Plains Gainesville, Georgia Hazard, Kentucky or Queen City of the Mountains Bangor, Maine or Queen City of the East Cumberland, Maryland or Queen City of the Alleghenies Marquette, Michigan or Queen City of the North Traverse City, Michigan or Queen City of the North Virginia, Minnesota Greenville, Mississippi or Queen City of the Delta Meridian, Mississippi Sedalia, Missouri or Queen City of the Prairies Springfield, Missouri or Queen City of the Ozarks Helena, Montana or Queen City of the Rockies Manchester, New Hampshire Beach Haven, New Jersey Plainfield, New Jersey Buffalo, New York or Queen City of the Great Lakes Elmira, New York New Rochelle, New York or Queen City of the Sound Poughkeepsie, New York or Queen City of the Hudson Charlotte, North Carolina or Queen City of the South Fargo, North Dakota Cincinnati, Ohio or the Queen City of the West Ada, Oklahoma or Queen City of the Chickasaw Nation Allentown, Pennsylvania Olyphant, Pennsylvania Titusville, Pennsylvania Sioux Falls, South Dakota Clarksville, Tennessee Del Rio, Texas or Queen City of the Rio Grande Fort Worth, Texas or Queen City of the Prairie Burlington, Vermont Staunton, Virginia or Queen City of the Shenandoah Valley Virginia Beach, Virginia Seattle, Washington 14 hours ago, Marvin said: Columbus, Ohio is Cow Town. I've heard Fort Worth and Oklahoma City called Cowtown, but Columbus is a new one to me. Edited May 13, 2023 by Doohickie Quote
Doohicksie Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Pimlach said: The really like when you call it Frisco. Oddly, there's actually a Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. 3 hours ago, Pimlach said: Cow Town - I have heard Kansas City, Tulsa, and Fort Worth all get this name. Actually I think pretty much any city in OK is Cowtown in practice 😛 2 Quote
pastajoe Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Syracuse - The Salt City For over a century, Central New York was the hub for the production of salt in the United States. The rapid rise of the salt industry in Syracuse led to the nickname “The Salt City.” By 1900, salt production had declined due to competition and the exhaustion of concentrated salt brine in and around Onondaga Lake. 1 1 Quote
PerreaultForever Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 4 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said: Its also called Steel City. That's the old one. Similar to Pittsburgh. Changed in the 80s/90s when much of the industrial section closed up but the hard nosed gritty working class element stayed. It's pretty much The Hammer now (although in the 80s the punk rock scene did dub it the "armpit of Canada") Quote
Claude Balls Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 4 hours ago, Pimlach said: I went to cawledge in Rochester. Never heard smug town. The Lilac City was its name, or something like that. Rochester is actually called "The Flower City". It was originally named "The Flour City" because of all the flour produced here back in the day. Scranton, PA - The Electric City. Quote
Pimlach Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 3 hours ago, Claude Balls said: Rochester is actually called "The Flower City". It was originally named "The Flour City" because of all the flour produced here back in the day. Scranton, PA - The Electric City. Scranton? Interesting. https://kendev.com/history/buffalo-ny-city-light-thanks-niagara-falls/ Buffalo had street lights … LA is aka City of Lights 1 Quote
Doohicksie Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 Has anyone mentioned Kansas City- the City of Fountains? Quote
Claude Balls Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, Doohickie said: Has anyone mentioned Kansas City- the City of Fountains? I thought KC's nickname was City of D-bag Chiefs Fans. 1 Quote
Doohicksie Posted May 13, 2023 Report Posted May 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, Claude Balls said: I thought KC's nickname was City of D-bag Chiefs Fans. That's the informal nickname, yeah. The city, I think, prefers City of Fountains. 1 Quote
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