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Don’t Call It Frisco
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 [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2006 under Frisco, history, music, overview, poetry.
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