Isn’t New Orleans also known as The Crescent City?
And Space City.
I thought Nashville was known as Music City.
And Petaluma, CA is also known (or was also known?) as the nation’s egg basket.
Newark, NJ is known as the Brick City.
I’ve heard the names Oak Town and Oaksterdam used referring to Oakland, CA, but I’m not sure how prevalent those really are.
Atlanta, Georgia is often refered to as “the ATL” or HOTlanta.
That is pronounced " the A.T.L."
A few more British ones:
Sheffield: Steel City
Stoke-on-Trent: The Potteries
Edinburgh: Auld Reekie
Pittsburgh is probably called Steel City or some variation.
Hollywood is also Tinsletown
L.A. is sometimes La La Land
Milwaukee should be Beer City or something.
Cleveland - Forest City
Dayton - Gem City
Cincinnati - Queen City of the West, Blue Chip City
Milwaukee - Cream City
Valladolid, Spain, is known as Pucela for no apparent reason; more pejoratively, Fachadolid, because of the supposed right-wing tendencies of its inhabitants.
yep, Milwaukee is Cream City. also Brew City
Some more from Wisconsin:
Oshkosh : “Sawdust City” due to having a lot of sawmills in it’s early days
Sheboygan : “She - Vegas” because the nightlife there is just like Vegas!
Tucson, Arizona, is known as “The Old Pueblo.” Or, to listeners of a certain classic rock FM station, “The Naked Pueblo.”
As already noted, Cleveland (OH) is known as The Mistake on the Lake, a cynical riposte to the more boosterish slogan of “The Best Location in the Nation”.
Indianapolis is “Nap Town” (not necessarily negative) as well as being pejoratively known as “India No-Place”.
Reno (NV) is “The Biggest Little City in the World”.
San Francisco is known to Bay Area denizens as “The City”. See the old uniform of the NBA’s Warriors when they were based in “Frisco”, as some folks call it.
Lafayette is called the Star City, though the origin of the term is shrouded in the mists of antiquity (which around here means “about 1830 or so”).
San Francisco is also frequently called SFO, for its airport abbreviation. When I first moved to the Bay Area, I noticed that people in the South Bay said “I’m going to the City” for San Francisco, but “I’m going downtown” for San Jose. It bugged me that “the City” and “downtown” were two different places.
Billings, Montana is “the Magic City.” I can’t imagine why.
Wasn’t Minneapolis trying to be “The Minnie-apple” (as opposed to the big Apple) a few years ago? A bad chamber of commerce promotion, methinks.
Yes, and the Plain Dealer tried to improve Cleveland’s image with a marketing campaign built around the slogan “New York’s the Big Apple, but Cleveland’s a plum.” As should have been expected, detractors quickly pointed out that a plum is often destined to be a prune, and that the city was more aptly characterized as “dried-up and wrinkled” than as “sweet and juicy”.
And thanks to the fact that there are more titty bars there than you can shake a stick at Pornland.
We’ve already had Chicago = Windy City, but
Baku (Azerbaijan) = Windy City
Wellington (New Zealand) = Windy City
Louisville, Ky., is the Derby City, River City and the City at the Falls (there are the Falls of the Ohio there, which is why the city sprung up at this location). Falls City Beer also sprung from Louisville and was brewed from 1905-1978. (Also known as Falls Shitty; guess why.)
Additionally, Cincinnati actually WAS Porkopolis at one time, I do believe.
My city, Lexington, like to call itself The Horse Capital of the World. Woo.
Buffalo, NY is also the Nickel City. I’m the most fond of this one, because it’s a nickname that you could figure out by thinking about it. I think “City of Good Neighbors” is the brain child of the Chamber of Commerce. It’s not very catchy.