Whats your area called?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by XOMichelle
ETA: Milwaukee is just Milwaukee. Or parhaps Mil-wauke, Algonquin for "the good land".

Dude no way...there's also Brew City, Illwaukee (which is hilarious), the Mil (a ripoff on the Chi, I guess), and billions of other silly names. The neighborhood I live in is supposed to be called Avenues West, but I'm pretty sure everyone calls it "Marquette" instead.

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
DFW because of the 'big airport' (previously, Fort Worth had Greater Southwest International Airport; much of what now is American Airlines corporate headquarters in the Centerport office park used to be that airport. If you look (quickly) to your right while taking the ramp from DFW Airport to Highway 360 you'll see the abandoned approach end of one of the runways of Greater Southwestern. (Just to be on the safe side, they've been marked with giant yellow "X" marks so pilots will know not to land there - highly unlikely!)

Before DFW was built, Dallas' major airport was Love Field. Part of the agreement between Dallas and Fort Worth was that they were to close their airports when the new one was built. Fort Worth lived up to their end of the deal, and all the major airlines of the day packed up and left Love Field. Southwest Airlines (at the time only an intrastate air carrier) did not sign the agreement and stayed at Love. Only after the airlines were deregulated in 1980 did Southwest begin to spread its wings outside Texas, and that's when then-Speaker of the House Jim Wright came up with the Wright Amendment.

Fort Worth is known as 'Cowtown' because it was the southern end of many of the Old West's cattle trails, and for its stockyards which processed them.

Yay thanks for all that info! Definitely helpful.

Does the Alliance airport in Ft. worth still operate? I'm so confused!

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by texas*princess
Yay thanks for all that info! Definitely helpful.

Does the Alliance airport in Ft. worth still operate? I'm so confused!

Sure does... it's one of the maintenance and overhaul facilities for American Airlines (the others are in Tulsa and DFW) and a major sort facility for FedEx. During race weekends at Texas Motor Speedway, plenty of private jets park there.

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Sure does... it's one of the maintenance and overhaul facilities for American Airlines (the others are in Tulsa and DFW) and a major sort facility for FedEx. During race weekends at Texas Motor Speedway, plenty of private jets park there.

cool i was completely unaware of that. thanks!

[Kevin]

Oklahoma City... known as OKC, or in teleprompter language, O-K-C.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by ktsnake
Oklahoma City... known as OKC, or in teleprompter language, O-K-C.

Or as pilots sometimes call it over the radio: "Oke City".

[LightBulb]

Memphis is the Bluff City, Home of Rock and Roll and Birthplace of the Blues.

Tennessee is the Buckle of the Bible Belt.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by LightBulb
Tennessee is the Buckle of the Bible Belt.

Almost every state in the Deep South that's religiously conservative gets that moniker tacked on, whether they like it or not.

I've heard some wags call Dallas the "Southern Baptist Vatican", since some of the administrative offices of the Southern Baptist Convention are located there.

[damasa]

Originally posted by XOMichelle

Neighborhoods in SF: SoMa, Mission, Castro, North Beach, Marina, Richmond, Sunset, Presido, Russian Hill, Noe Valley... I don't know them all honestly.

You got all the important ones, I'm at work and I'm bored so I'll name some more.

South Beach, Japantown, Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, Potrero Hill, Pacific Heights, Marina/Cow Hollow, The Haight...blah blah, there are far too many neighborhood names in SF.