Emerald City

I had forgotten that Seattle voted to nickname itself the Emerald City. Although Seattle is undoubtedly a beautiful place on some days, it seems to have forgotten that you can't really give yourself a nickname.

Of course, the Emerald City lies at the end of the Yellow Brick Road, not the Oregon Trail. And I highly doubt L. Frank Baum was inspired by the Seattle of the late 1800s, then a growing but sort of unremarkable little town. As a side note, it seems Los Angeles can stake a claim as the Emerald City, if only as an afterthought when L.F.B. moved to Hollywood following the success of the original book.