Bay Area

[Donald M. Lance]

In his files, Peter Tamony has a number of instances of ads and references in newspaper
articles to "The City" being a reference to San Francisco in much of California.  When a
developer built a mall in Orange County south of Los Angeles and called it The City, there
was a slight furor over the choice of the name.
When people near St. Joseph MO say they're going to The City, it's clear they're going to
KC.  I don't think it's used much in the St. Louis area.  And just as San Franciscans
don't say Frisco, St. Louisans don't say St. Louie.
DMLance

Lynne Murphy wrote:

> Rima said:
>
> > In a discussion, it was mentioned that New York - specifically
> > Manhattan - and San Francisco were generally referred to as The City.
>
> I think any city is referred to as The City by people who live near it.
> E.g., in Newark, NY (pop. ~10,000), if you say you're going to the City
> to do some shopping, everyone knows you mean Rochester (30 miles away).
>
> Or do you mean that they are referred to in print as capital-T 'The'
> capital-C 'City'?
>
> Lynne