Chic-Land or SF Bay Area, Which has a bigger impact on american pop culture? (life, cons)

[jman650]

Originally Posted by rickmahorn

Why are all these threads just people saying "X city sucks"? Barely anyone can make a case for a city without putting another down.

Anyone willing to make a solid case for San Francisco without dissing Chicago?

I am! Here's some stuff I can think of:

Janis Joplin
Maya Angelou
Carlos Santana
Jefferson Airplane
Sly and the Family Stone
The Beatnicks
The Hippie movement
Chinese Mafia presence in America
The oldest and largest Chinatown in the US
Bruce Lee
The Greatful Dead
The gay/lesbian rights movement
Craigslist
Rolling Stone Magazine (originally)
Thrasher Magazine
The rave scene
Clint Eastwood
Shirley Temple
Bing Crosby
Metallica
Journey & a ton of big name groups and one hit wonders from the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s (too many to name here)
The internet & most major dot coms
The Black Panthers
Prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia & the BGF
A ton of slang (again, too much to list here)
Rappers like 2Pac, Too Short, Mac Dre, Digital Underground, Spice 1 & MC Hammer
R&B singers like En Vogue, Tony Tone Toni/Raphael Saadiq, Goapele & Keyshia Cole
The West Coast Offense in football
Joe DiMaggio
Barry Bonds
Bill Walsh
Lynn Swann
Tom Brady
Joe Montana
Jerry Rice
Ronnie Lott
Steve Young
Willy Mays
Mountain biking
The VCR
George Lucas/Lucasfilm/Star Wars/Indiana Jones
John Madden (and his entire series of video games)
OJ Simpson
Green Day
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bill Graham & The Fillmore Auditorium
1015 Folsom (one of the top electronic music clubs in the nation)
Alcatraz
Burning Man
shows like Full House, Dirty Jobs & Mythbusters
The Golden Gate Bridge
Cable Cars
San Francisco Rush
Rice-a-roni
Levi Jeans
The Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic

Hopefully someone can add some more to this? I know there's much more than this.

[LosAngelesNightmare]

Originally Posted by Spire

Off Topic

Moderator cut: Orphaned at the end of the day people actually THINK of California cities.... i doubt anyone sits around and goes "ya know i'm gonna vacation in chic or illinois that sounds cool"

[Spire]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesNightmare

Moderator cut: Orphaned at the end of the day people actually THINK of California cities.... i doubt anyone sits around and goes "ya know i'm gonna vacation in chic or illinois that sounds cool"

Actually, 44.2 million people a year say that to Chicago alone. Considering most of them come in the summer...that is VERY impressive.

California is a tourist trap. Get over it.

[BigLake]

Originally Posted by rubber_factory

Ok.

So then what good are you?

well, none to you-- as promised. Feel free to help yourself though and take some initiative to expand your knowledge so you don't come across as so shallow.

Well whaddya know, I did give you some valuable life lessons.

Hey-- LANightmare, if you're lurking... I'm giving out free advice which is certainly relevant to you as well. You guys make sure to share with all your aliases now.

[LosAngelesNightmare]

Originally Posted by Spire

California is a tourist trap. Get over it.

That's laughable as more people reside here than Canada and alot of countries

[BigLake]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesNightmare

That's laughable as more people reside here than Canada and alot of countries

OK. They live in a LARGE tourist trap.

[Spire]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesNightmare

That's laughable as more people reside here than Canada and alot of countries

Point being lol? You can have a large population and still be a tourist trap.

[yoyobubba]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesNightmare

at the end of the day people actually THINK of California cities.... i doubt anyone sits around and goes "ya know i'm gonna vacation in chic or illinois that sounds cool"

Who are these "people." Chicago has a very large tourist industry I would think. When I was there it was all tourists it seemed. And anytime I book on Hotwire to go somewhere for New Year's, Chicago is always the number one destination in this country for tourists and hotel bookings.

[LucasS6]

LOL 44 million people are wrong.

[thefinalcut]

Originally Posted by Gtownoe

Do you know where Trance originated from??

Take your foot out of your mouth.

You Chicago folks can't post anything without being offensive.. Are you surprised that the nation has a certain steretype of Midwest?

My foot is out of my mouth and can only point out that trance was created in Germany and European lead that genre since day one.
Forget about house, that's old news.