Jacksonville’s Official Slogan?

[BrooklynSouth]

I dont think Andrew Jackson would give a rats ass. He wasnt even from Florida, and never visited the area, even when he was the military Governor of Florida.

We really don't know that he was never here, this was a major crossing and ferry point in the early day's of the river. His march took him roughly from Tallahassee to St. Augustine so we know he crossed at least twice. Never in Florida? I dunno, in 1821 Baton Rouge was in FLORIDA. Andy led the boys to New Orleans for the famous showdown in 1814, shocking the world by completely routing the British Army. He either floated down the Big Muddy or he was indeed in Florida. He WAS in St. Augustine and well, since that name is taken, maybe Perre Gustave Toutant Beauregard could lend us his name... 'Beauregard, Florida,' has a ring to it! Oh and YES he was here.

OCKLAWAHA

I'm amused someone responded to my joke. I mostly said it because at the same time someone suggested changing the name, I was reading this: http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html Imagine, a city named after the president who beat an would-be assassin with his cane! 

I like "River City", but it doesn't totally capture how wild and natural the St John's river is with all the marshes and creeks and the ocean. "Where Georgia Ends" is actually historically appropriate. The railroad, the Victorian symbol of civilization, just ended here for a long time. People coming south from Georgia once had to get off of the train and get onto a steamboat down the St. Johns. Jacksonville and its river, for good and bad, have always been wild and natural. Before the bulkheads were put in, the tides were so violent that it was difficult to even get a boat from the ocean into the St. Johns river. Not like the Hudson and East rivers in New York City, that formed a gentle, natural harbor. And no thanks to all the river water, mosquito-borne Yellow Fever almost wiped our city off the map in 1888!

As a non-native, I see that the people born in greater Jacksonville are proud of the wildness of Jacksonville in the way Australians or Texans are of their home cities. When I read about the people that established the banks, built the mansions of The Row in Riverside, and built the first skyscrapers downtown, I see that they were all born in New York or Chicago or Boston. People who moved here from a northern city (like me) want coffee shops, streetcars, and sidewalks. I don't know how to fish or hunt and I don't own a boat or a pickup truck. The people who were born here are descended from the tough cracker cowboys, longshoremen, and lumbermen that gave this city a reason to exist. I think there will always be northerner city-dwellers moving to Jacksonville to support the urban movement, but I don't think it will ever be easy or popular.

Andrew Jackson was called "Old Hickory" because he was so tough. How about we call our city "Hickville" in his honor? Am I wrong to think that native Jacksonvillians have little interest in urbanism?

[JaxNative68]

i am puzzled as to how looking for a city slogan has turned into a renaming of the city campaign.

[patrickharrisart]

I found all the negatives extremely funny!! But on a serious note I have two:

Floridas Next Hot City

or Bridge City to the New Florida

I am from Miami and lived in St. Petersburg for 10 years, been here 6 years and was extremely confused as to why folks can't get this going? I boat the river have grown to love the city and only wish code enforcement existed at least a little... times are changin and like the mayor said time waits for no one

patrickharrisart.com

to see my poster for the city digital.

[JaxJerry]

or, Home of the Homeless (see Hemming park thread), Home of the chain restaurant (see Mellow Mushroom thread), or, wait for it....The Home Of Tim Tebow!

[aclchampion]

Patrick I think you will discover rather quickly that there are folks on this list who wish Code Enforcement didn't exist AT ALL.  But welcome aboard..

[Timkin]

Patrick I think you will discover rather quickly that there are folks on this list who wish Code Enforcement didn't exist AT ALL.  But welcome aboard..

*raises hand   

[movedsouth]

"embrace sprawl"

[Know Growth]

When I was in the process of moving here in 1987, the Atlanta Constitution printed a feature article titled “Jacksonville, The City That Smells Like Rotten Eggs.”  This town has come a long way for the better. 

Like me, plenty of people came here and never went home.  That says something.

You will run for Public Office Shine.

[Know Growth]

Jacksonville!.......where Miami Begins!!


Try that on some billboards.........get your azz kicked.
so quaint,'dem billboards.