Reno is cool now...we have a District!

In an ongoing effort to "hang" with the big cities, we have our first official "district". Welcome to SoDo. It's official...we're real now.

Here are a couple potential other districts:

• SoMo - South Meadows area (obvious)
• NoDo - lets hurry and classify the university area NoDo because the University District takes too long to type.
• E40 - east of downtown on 4th street where you can easily score a 40. Don't tell me 4th street is all hip now cause my dad rustles off sleepy folks from his business porch daily.
• HoHo - this district is 5 miles east of sparks where prostitution is legal.
• JethHo - this is the area with the ill fated Park Lane Mall which was never acquired (but not for lack of effort) by Max Baer (Jethro Clampet)
• 2WD - a hip spin on double-wide for Sun Valley (our neighbor community to the north). Still sporting two entries in the Guiness for being the worlds largest trailer park, and for having the highest concentration of convicts.
• others? Submit some...I'll post 'em.

Ok you Reno purists, before you start flaming and hurling on me...take it easy...this is a joke. I like reno. I like living here. I like having my business here. I am a 4th generation native Nevadan...so I am authorized to make funnies about my home town. If we can't laugh at ourselves, then what have we become?

That said, I am starting to think we can't we come up with ANY ideas of our own. Does everything have to be a copy of what exists someplace else (and we have it too)? We have some cool "San Francisco style" restaurants. And a couple swell "Vegas style" nightclubs. We have some hip "New York style" urban highrises. What is Reno-style? Anyone know anymore? Sometimes I think we chase our tails trying to be a big city when the charm of this place is in the city's moniker: The Biggest Little City In The World. Still works for me.

I don't see our area as being cool because we have districts, and "xyz-style" stuff. Rather, Greater Reno(dash)Tahoe is unique because of the people, the mountains, the world class skiing, world class recreation, miles of open trails, 2 stroke vehicle accessibility, all the nearby lakes, the climate, the location & proximity to so much. The river redevelopment is cool, california avenue is cool, the first street bar & nightclub areas are cool, downtown Sparks & the marina are getting cool (though I am partial), Grand Sierra has turned into a very cool casino resort (and is doing original and interesting things people said "will never work here"), outside of Gotham center/urban-ia, our neighborhoods are still safe & nice, traffic ain't that bad (though the skill level of drivers is low), and in spite of rising/falling housing costs, this is still an affordable place to live - in comparison to a big city.

Folks, lets all vow to keep reno weird! Oh wait, that's Austin...oh well, use it till we sort something else out.

WBV

[another treo post - sorry for the typos]

Comments

[Keith says...]

One that I don't have to make up (it appeared on the scene before SoDo) - WeFi (West of First).

[Bryan Landaburu says...]

From our Avid Indoorsman Calder via e-mail, here are a few more:

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Very good. Let us not forget the two most recent regional renamings:

» "CalAve" -- A retail hook for all the shops on California Avenue.

» "West Reno" -- The Somersett folks weren't about to get grouped in with all those mouthbreathers in the "Northwest." Call it the WeRe?

Others...

» SoSu -- South Suburban (gateway to VC)

» SuTro -- Highly dangerous, but great tacos.

» S-Prop -- Sparks Proper. Yeah, "got a cigarette?"

» HoBo -- Anywhere along 4th Street corridor. Count the Fitz hats, win a prize.

» RoGo -- Roy Gomm. The Gommy Mommies are the most obnoxious of all the desperate housewives in town

More are brewin...

[myrnatheminx says...]

I agree that names should grow out of each neighborhood organically--however that happens. That being said, I don't think WeFi exists anywhere else so it conforms to your rule of keeping Reno weird. Anyway, I like it and I live there.

[Bryan Landaburu says...]

Thanks for the comments Myrna.

Happy to have you here. I don't write stuff on Reno all the time, but once in a while something strikes me. Thanks also for the sidebar add on RAID (no pun intended).

BL

[Rob says...]

SoSnob - the area around Caughlin Ranch.

[Bryan Landaburu says...]

Oh i forgot the mega district used for then entire area (greater reno[dash]tahoe) - EDAWN wants it called:

the "CanDo"

[Ryan Lakescrossing says...]

Thank you so much. I can't stand the terms SoDo or WeFi. It's so lame. Wannabe big city Calimmigrants trying to name little pockets of Reno to make it look hip and metrosexy. Give me a friggin break. Bring us your restaurant and retail chains. Bring us your business and companies. But leave behind the fake BS big city wannabe attitude. If you don't like it here leave. Next they'll want to rename Sun Valley SuVa. Oh wow, WeFi, it sounds so cool, will I be magically teleported to a hip district in Manhattan??? Not even San Francisco is stupid enough to jump on that bandwagon.