Try for ones that only people familiar with your city would be know. For example you could say
Thomas Guides
SIG Alerts
Traffic breaks
“The” freeway
Or maybe one unique cultural icon that again, only people familiar with your city would be know.
The Weedle
Note: my examples are two different cities.
#1 screams Birmingham, Alabama. (Where’s his pants?)
The Big Chicken
The Perimeter
Spaghetti Junction
The Gulch
Nope, it is/was the catchphrase for a local beer.
The OP already used the obvious ones for me, so how about:
Chavez Ravine
Dead Man’s Curve
The Forum
The Hat or Tommy’s or Philippe’s
Si_Amigo:
You can’t keep an ironman down
The Hill District
The Strip District
The Triangle
I’ve lived there all my life!!
Lilac festival
If you’re not from there, you’ll pronounce this avenue/area wrong
Growing up, not in a city:
Cheese
Beer
Brats
Packers
Now, in a city:
Dreamy draw
Wallace and Ladmo
The Jar
1: Meet me under the clocks.
2: The Monash parking lot.
3: The Gee.
(For reference, meeting under the clocks is outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne, Aus. The Monash parking lot is a particular freeway in Melb, the Monash, renowned for being excruciatingly busy at peak hours. The Gee is of course, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, home to test cricket and Aussie Rules football, cut down to MCG, and then shortened further to just Gee.)
LSLGuy
January 7, 2024, 9:02pm
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One city but long ago:
Charlie’s Chili; it freezes swell.
Banzai pipeline
The trestle
Little Corona
The Greeter
Different city more recenttly:
The Hill
The CWE
Highway farty.
The Loop
Ted Drewes
Hodak’s
Riddle’s Penultimate (now obsolete)
You can’t get there from here. Not going to try to type the accent.
Lobster rolls.
Chowdah!
Lsura
January 7, 2024, 10:39pm
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For a couple more:
What’ll Ya Have?
State not Southern