What is the nickname or motto for the city of San Francisco?

-- Russell (Earlybirdz@aol.com), February 10, 1998

Answers

Nickname = "Frisco" (shudder). Terrible name. Seems to have started as a sailor's nickname around the turn-of-the century. Others may know more.

Motto = "Oro en paz, fierro en guerra" (Gold in peace, iron in war)

-The Anonymous Historian

-- anon (anon@post.com), February 11, 1998.

Herb Caen used to call it "Baghdad by the Bay."

-- Dorothy (leland@dcn.davis.ca.us), February 11, 1998.

Proper names for San Francisco are either:

San Francisco or The City (City is capitalized)

Locals do NOT refer to the City as Frisco. Please use that term cautiously, and be prepared to be chastised.

-- Robert W. Summers (summerstime@yahoo.com), January 05, 1999.