[Ads-l] WeHo

[Dan Goncharoff]

FiDi is now used in NYC, too, now that people actually live again in the
Financial District.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 12:15 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:

> In San Francisco there are neighborhood abbreviations as in NYC: SoMa
> (south of Market Street) and FiDi (Financial District).
>
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> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:58 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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> > > On Jun 27, 2023, at 8:51 AM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > And, I presume, SoHo? But EHo doesn't sound nearly so neat... if those
> > > exist at all.
> > >
> > > Mark Mandel
> >
> > I’ve always assumed that New York’s SoHo (= ’South of Houston St.’) was
> > named as a kind of tribute to/pun on London’s renowned funky
> neighborhood,
> > Soho (not an acronymic clipping), and that NoHo and the others in the
> > pattern were named after SoHo, whence also TriBeCa, DUMBO, and all the
> > others.  The L.A. ones definitely came after the NYC ones.
> >
> > It’s a useful naming pattern, although somewhat tainted by Gestapo,
> > Comintern, and their ilk.
> >
> > LH
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 8:54 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> It's been WeHo for quite a few years. The city’s website is weho.org.
> > >>
> > >> And North Hollywood is NoHo.
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/apartment-search-2/neighborhood-guides/living-in-north-hollywood-a-walkable-neighborhood-full-of-l-a-charm/
> > >>
> > >> Nancy Friedman
> > >> Chief Wordworker
> > >> https://wordworking.com
> > >> https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com
> > >>
> > >> tel 510 652-4159
> > >> cel 510 304-3953
> > >> twitter/mastodon/Instagram Fritinancy
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 3:56 PM Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 'West Hollywood'
> > >>>
> > >>> <goog_1876204918>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/washington-dems-silent-nude-pride-171113493.html
> > >>> :
> > >>>
> > >>> West Hollywood had a three-day "WeHo Pride" event last weekend
> > featuring
> > >>> concerts, a street fair, a "Women’s Freedom Festival," and a "dyke
> > >> march."
> > >>>
> > >>> JL
> > >>> --
> > >>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > >> truth."
> > >>
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