page_title: List of city nicknames in California
section_title: G
hierarchical_section_title: List of city nicknames in California / Nicknames by city / G
caption_attribution_description: English: Free garlic ice cream at the en:Gilroy Garlic Festival, en:Gilroy, California.
context_page_description: This partial list of city nicknames in California compiles the aliases, sobriquets, mottos and slogans that cities in California are known by, officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" are also believed to have economic value. Their economic value is difficult to measure, but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by "branding" themselves by adopting new slogans.
  Some unofficial nicknames are positive, while others are derisive. The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency.
context_section_description: Garden Grove – Big Strawberry
  Gilroy – Garlic Capital of the World
  Glendale – The Jewel City
  Glendora – The Pride of the Foothills
  Goleta – The Good Land
  Greenfield – Broccoli Capital of the World
  Gridley – Kiwi Fruit Capital of the World
caption: Garlic ice cream is given away at the annual Garlic Festival in Gilroy, nicknamed Garlic Capital of the World.
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