Frisco Vista

Here’s an amusing animation depicting Mark Twain drolly calling for respect for San Francisco’s dignity. It’s pretty funny, and nicely done. Is this a real Twain quote? I’d like to know where it’s from.

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via Eye on Blogs
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I’m excluding old music hall / movie songs like “Hello, Frisco” and “O Susanna” (I’m allowing old blues and country tunes though). I’m also excluding contemporary songs like all the hip hop and rap that have “Frisco” in the lyrics.
10. Bob Dylan, “Roving Gambler”
I gambled up in Washington, gambled over in Spain
I’m on my way [...]

I’m no Herb Caen, but it looks like my anti-San-Fran movement is picking up an adherent or two.
Then again, the authors are “SF-wannabes,” in the arrogant lingo of our provincial thought police.

There’s a laundromat in the city’s Hayes Valley called the Don’t Call It Frisco Laundromat. The name quotes an admonition you will hear often from a certain generation of locals, who will tell you the word grates like chalk on a blackboard. The taboo started, or at least took hold, in 1953 with the publication [...]