Pobrecito...

San Francisco. Lived there eight glorious years. Loved every minute of it.

And then Yerba Buena,

And Escondido

And San Bernardino

And Fresno

And Madera

And El Cerrito

And Alcatraz

And Sausalito

And Paso Robles

And Las Flores

And Buena Vista

And Chico

And Mission Viejo

And Sausalito

And Manteca

And Tierra Buena

And La Mesa

And Modesto

And Sacramento

I could do this all day. How could anybody be so dense ?

..........didn't California belong to .."MEXICO" for a while???.

............something about the Mexican War???1836?...in Mexico...don't they speak .."Spanish?"

.............................am I missing something????

It was bigly horrific!!......

Next will be.. Escondido, Del Mar, San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz.. the list goes on and on..

Haha.. I see you got Escondido, too.. I lived there for a couple of years. Excellent Mexican Food!

I would go back in a heartbeat IF I could afford it. Waaaay to expensive now.

The food. The arts. The music. The Pacific (right there in the city). The culture(s): Chinatown, the Mission District, J-town, Russian Hill. The shops: Ft. Mason, Noriega Street, 50 UN Plaza, Market Street, Embarcadero. The buildings: Palace of Fine Arts, the TransAmerica Building, the Russian Orthodox church domes of gold, MOMA. And Sunday brunches at the Cliff House.

Now, you've got me racing to the photo albums.

And crying.

Yes, it is true. You leave your heart in San Francisco.

I was there visiting only twice. I loved walking up the hills.. er streets.

That's right.. you get to say you Left Your Heart in San Francisco!

m going to listen to this 10 times before I go to bed tonight. And tomorrow night.

And NOBODY does it better than Tony Bennett. Still, at 92, he makes it all so easy. Did you know that he paints ? His works are impressive.

know he paints.. he's so bloody talented!

Oh now I must find a painting.. lol



https://www.tonybennett.com/arts.php

He really belts out that song with Love.. what an inspiration for having a long productive life.

He did a painting of Lady Gaga about two years ago. It was published in Vanity Fair. Quite good.

Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz.. just off the top of head.

The writer was indignant that we had places named after foreign royality.

The writer lived in Louisiana.

Too lazy to search but I think it occurred in Prince Edward Sound.

Dumbass

El Pueblo de la Reyna de Los Angeles

"Lower Alabama"

Santa Maria and all the santos, my ninos! Did this person just arrive from the Moon? Huge chunks of North America used to belong to Spain and then Mexico -- that piece of history is reflected in place names on both coasts and far inland, and I thought every US schoolchild knew that much.

I had a bemusing experience on a flight with a young Spaniard, though, who was traveling back home from meetings in Silicon Valley. He'd had a few extra days to tour, ended up in Santa Cruz, and based on all the signage, was baffled when it turned out that the natives spoke no conversational Spanish. I told him to google Fr. Junipero Serra -- but what with the noise of the engines it was hard to inform him, and he was working on his laptop anyway.

Just ask Texas.

El Paso
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
San Patricio

Think he'll try to rename any of them to "Trump"?

Boca Raton
(Key) Largo
St. Augustine
Punta Gorda
Islamorada
Escambia
Hernando
Pinella
De Soto
Leon
Naranja
Tavaras
(Cape) Canavarel
and Caya Hueso (better known as Key West)

Hardly a conclusive list . . .

if it went by its English name...

Although the correct Spanish noun would be "rata."

Take your pick.

When I lived on the East Coast of Southern FL, it didn't mean anything nearly as nice as stupid. And, I had Puerto Rican friends who recoiled in horror at that word and viewed it as something vile and vulgar.

I was stationed in Southeast TX and it was both funny (to some) and ugly (to others).

When I lived in CA, it was just a joke.

But it depends on where you say it and to whom you say it.

Baton Rouge,.. Detroit,... New Orleans...?

don't tell me those two are from ...French...or Spanish..or Greek..or Italian..

How could they come up with those???????