Mostly rings true, but here's a quibble. As a Parkside native and Lincoln alum from the days when it was an isolated box (factory?) I sang "High on a hilltop, ... " at every student body event, but never identified myself as going to school "High on a hill." Many students in the Sunset did cross-town commutes to Poly, Washington, Lowell, and even Galileo. After all, a trip on the Muni cost 2 1//2 cents on a 20-ride student pass! Also, to my knowledge, no one I knew mispronounced Portola as PORT-ola. We tried to give streets named after Spanish explorers a Spanish pronunciation. Fran Pillsbury At 08:40 PM 10/5/2006 -0700, you wrote: >Just received this from my sister. Thought a few might enjoy it. > >Pass the French bread, >Jim > >FOR ALL FRIENDS RAISED IN THE CITY >If the response is "High on the Hill" you knew they came from the >Sunset, Woods or Richmond and went to Lincoln, the only important thing >was winning "The Bell" game from their cross town rivals, Washington. >They knew were "the Pits" and "the Circle" were. >James R. Smith