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Due to the riots in the 60s between whites and blacks.. bricks were thrown and destroyed businesses, homes, and people! My grandpa was hit with a brick during MLK times by his own kind (white) for some reason, he was living in West Bronx at the time.
No one in my family lived in Newark, NJ yet during those times.
Twin Cities could have been known as Minneapolis/Pigs Eye
St. Paul was once known as "Pig's Eye" named after the first white man to visit the area. A one-eyed, French trapper of dubious reputation. I can't help but think of the characters in How The West Was Won" that lure Jimmy Stewart into their cave were based on St Paul's founding father!
According to Wikipedia...
Arriving at Mendota in 1832, Parrant would begin to carve out a new life for himself while residing in a squatter’s colony near Fort Snelling. His new career found him distilling his own liquor which he then sold to other squatters, the indigenous people of the area, and even to the soldiers of the fort. This new business served “Pig’s Eye” well until 1838 when the squatters were forced off the land surrounding the fort due to their being a strain on surrounding resources. It was at this time that the sixty-plus year old Parrant made a claim on a tract of land at the entrance of what was known as Fountain Cave.This cave was situated on the North bank of the Mississippi River just south of what is now Downtown St. Paul. Then, on or around June 1, 1838 Parrant completed building a small shack that, according to a historical publication by Albert A. Jones, dated 1892, became “the first habitation, and the first business house of St. Paul.” Thus Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant became the first inhabitant of the future city of St. Paul. Such an honor being given to a man with Parrant’s reputation raised the ire of some historians such as J. Fletcher Williams who lamented:
Such was the man on whom Fortune, with that blind fatuity that seems to characterize the jade, thrust the honor of being the founder of our good city! Our pride almost revolts at the chronicling of such a humiliation, and leads us to wish that it were on one worthier and nobler that such a distinction had fallen. But history is inexorable, and we must record facts as they are.
C-Town
The Land
CLE
The C-L-E
Forest City
Wasteland
Thieveland
Murdaland
DNA Level C
The North Coast
Lil' Chicago
The Cleve
6th City
Rock City
Rock n Roll City
Mistake on the Lake
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C-City
Theres a lot. Then of course, Browns town and Lebron-town.
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San Francisco:
Frisco
SF
The City
Sucka Free City (SFC for short)
Tha Sco
Baghdad By The Bay
San Franpsycho
the 415
fog town
San Fran
The City That Knows How
I've also heard it referred to as San Fransissy.
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Twin Cities could have been known as Minneapolis/Pigs Eye
