The Origins of Bay Area Place Names

Bay Curious

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History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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California was named after a fictional island for black Amazon-like warrior women, ruled by Queen Calafia. What about Bay Area names? Reported by Jessica Placzek and Dan Brekke. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Ryan Levi, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Amanda Font and Julia McEvoy. Holly Kernan is Vice President for News. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:03.0	People love to know the meaning behind place names,
0:07.0	either to connect deeper with an area,
0:09.0	or maybe to impress a date, like fictitious Ankerman, Ron Burgundy.
0:14.3	Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
0:25.0	No, there's no way that's correct.
0:30.0	Don't be like Ron Burgundy here.
0:32.0	Be like our Bay curious listener who... Don't be like Ron Burgundy here.
0:32.5	Be like our Bay curious listener, who wants to know the facts.
0:36.7	My name is Shreda Ramachandran.
0:38.8	I live in San Francisco.
0:40.9	Shreda has been living here a few few years and he's hungry for knowledge.
0:45.4	I know that a lot of the names of the cities and towns in the Bay Area have like Spanish and
0:49.1	Roman Catholic origins, but you know considering the Bay Area has got such a rich history I thought
0:54.0	would be interesting to know if any of the city names have you know specifically
0:57.8	peculiar origins. This week on Bay Curios we're going to help you impress
1:02.2	your friends by teaching you some weird etymology
1:05.3	of various Bay Area places.
1:07.8	I'm Jessica Plachik in for Olivia Allen Price. Support for Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family-owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:31.5	Today I've brought in reporter extraordinaire and knower of Bay Area Histories Dan Brecky.
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