I'm OK with the "Bayou City" although it's anything but."H-Town" sounds so ghetto like "SA" & we ALL know how THAT'S really spelled lol.
2007-09-29 10:25:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Houston
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2007-09-29 10:37:32 · update #1
LOL. I see why Atlanta is called "hotlanta" & I know the nicknames for the other ones. Maybe I just personally don't like the name which is my right & others right to use it as well. I wonder what Seattle is called.
2007-09-29 13:20:01 · update #2
Yea ghetto peoples call houston nick name htown screwstone houstone etc.... its called screwstone because the music choped and screwed was from houston texas
not only houston has a nick name other major citys also has one
chicago is chitown ,atlanta is atown or ATL and hotlanta,newyork is nyc, los angeles is LA, Philadelphia is philly, Dallas is Dtown....etc
and the bayou city and space city stuff its called bayout city cuz there lot of bayou and space city cuz there nasa in houston but those r for non ghetto nicknames
2007-09-29 12:31:25 · answer #1 · answered by ███Htown Chino███Go Rockets!! 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Actually, I can recall that phrase being used by Calvin Murphy and Bill Worrell during the Houston Rocket's back-to-back NBA Championship games.
A lot of cities have nicknames like this. Beantown, Chitown, etc.
I don't take it as gang banger speak.
Oh by the way, Houston is called the Bayou City because it has many, many bayous. Most are now concrete lined ditches thanks to flood control programs in Harris County.
Some natural bayous that are now concrete ditches are Keegan's, Huntington, Braes, Buffalo, Sims, plus about twenty five others.
Some creeks that are no more than bayous are Bear, Mayde, Cypress, Caney, Clear, and more.
Pull up the Harris County Flood Control District website map and you see all the many bayous and creeks that lace the County, hence Houston's nickname "The Bayou City".
2007-09-29 18:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by mike h 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.. that's my experience, pretty much ghetto gangsta types use it and few, if any, other people.
Space City was best... but that was when we had a Space Program that did stuff and was interesting.
I know we are Bayou City ,but even after living her for 15 years I still think of New Orleans for that....
2007-09-29 23:51:45 · answer #3 · answered by Larry R 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, unlike the ignorant post directly above me, it isn't an imitation of O-town. Houston has been "H-town" since the 70s. It was given the nickname by truckers on their CB radios.
Nowadays, though... it seems like only the gangsta culture uses it.
2007-09-29 22:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
It started in the '60s by truckers. I never liked it but the gangstas can't claim it as their own.
2007-09-30 00:35:04 · answer #5 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A copy of O-Town. Everything is copied from other cities. To answer your question, it's for wannabes.
2007-09-29 20:56:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
ghetto speak.
2007-09-29 17:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by G-man 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
i agreed with jimmyfro..
2007-09-29 19:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by ███Htown Chino███Go Rockets!! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋