![]() Paul in Minnesota are called the Twin Cities. Gayle Anderson, the president and chief executive of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, pointed to the Twin City nickname, although she noted that Minneapolis and St. The city also has picked up some nicknames: Camel City, a cigarette reference that has long been popular with truckers, and the Twin City, a reference to Winston and Salem. The city’s seal has the slogan Urbs Condita Adiuvando, which means “City founded on cooperation.” We have a lot of history with Old Salem, but we also have wine, arts and great restaurants.” “We are trying to get people thinking about Winston-Salem differently. “People still view Winston-Salem as a tobacco city,” Geiger said. That agency uses the slogan “Your Southern Wake-Up Call,” but Geiger pointed out that the emphasis is on selling the city to outsiders, not folks who live here. ![]() “Whatever you say you are, you need to deliver,” said Richard Geiger, the president of Visit Winston-Salem. That one’s no longer applicable.īy 1925 someone had decided that Winston-Salem was “A good place to live.” After a stint as “The World’s Tobacco Metropolis” (1932), the city decided it was “The City of Historic Charm and Thriving Industry.” Sensing the need to shake things up, someone in 1958 changed it to “The City of Culture, History and Industry.” Winston-Salem has tried out many slogans over the years: “The city of progress and prosperity” in 1920, and “North Carolina’s Largest City” in 1922. That slogan had beat out “Winston-Salem: Your City for Life,” which sounded too much like a prison sentence to some people. The idea behind the slogan as that when people found out what neat things there are in Winston-Salem they would exclaim, “Oh! I didn’t know that.” The slogan had its supporters but it also earned derision, and faded into obscurity. The city famously (infamously?) spent six months and $65,000 to come up with that slogan in 2001. Hint: Don’t try “O! Winston-Salem Now That’s Living!” McNeal said a team would be put together to sift through the nominations. I believe it will be something that bubbles to the top.” “I believe we are ultimately going to see a lot of comments from people with supporting information. “I expect we will see a lot of people suggesting that to be the slogan, but the council members wanted to say, let’s take a moment and bring it forward to the community,” said Ed McNeal, Winston-Salem’s director of marketing and communication. In recent years the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has promoted Winston-Salem as “The City of Arts and Innovation,” a slogan also claimed by Riverside, Calif. And the submissions can be creative or be some slogan already in use. That’s next week.įolks can enter their nominations online or by phoning the city. Maybe “City in a Hurry” would be a good place to start, since submissions have to be in between March 31 and April 4. Winston-Salem officials are getting ready to solve that problem by asking residents to come up with a city slogan to appear on road signs and – who knows, maybe badges, posters, stickers and T-shirts, if the slogan catches on. A city without a slogan is, well, a “City Without a Slogan.” Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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