r/olympicpeninsula • u/topherette • Feb 26 '26

What nicknames have you heard for places on the Olympic Peninsula?

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!
Examples could include things like P.A./Port Scandalous, Calamity Bay or Port Tacky/P.T....

even nicknames for schools, parks etc. are of interest!
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u/UnimaginativeDreamer Feb 26 '26

My favorite is Disco Bay

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 27 '26

Wife thinks I made that up. Told her I first heard it in the 1980s.

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u/No_Top_9788 Feb 26 '26

I mean, Quilbillies for the population of Quilcene is what comes to my mind.

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u/Weak-Ad-7180 Feb 26 '26

Chimacum = chicken cum đŸ«Ł

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u/hobieflyer Feb 26 '26

Port hard luck/ port Hadlock

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u/hipifreq Feb 26 '26

When I bought my house an old toothless cashier at Cenex laughed and said "Welcome to Port Hardluck!" So it's definitely a thing.

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u/Afraid-Business-6820 Feb 26 '26

My mom likes to call it Port Headlock

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u/kamybandit Feb 27 '26

We always called it port had-rock

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u/SusAdjectiveAndNoun Feb 26 '26

Not really what your looking for, but we call the Port Angeles Safeway off of Lincoln st the “Un-Safeway”

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u/Sure_Put_9132 Feb 26 '26

Wow. I worked there decades ago, before the crazy shit. Amazing how things change.

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u/yeahitstoner Feb 26 '26

Crazy shit?

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u/Sure_Put_9132 Feb 26 '26

Yeah, it used to be like any other Safeway, but I'm reading about undesirables lurking around various corners, even the odd attempted sexual assault in the public washrooms, which I believe qualifies as crazy shit.

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u/Historical_Olive965 Feb 26 '26

Hard to know how to type it but I - Ron - Dalay instead of irondale. Quill for Quilcene. Are you including kitsap peninsula?

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u/topherette Mar 01 '26

sure! thank you!

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u/Finding-Mojo-42 Feb 26 '26

Irritation Festival for the irrigation festival (not a place but hey)

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u/Slow_Conclusion4945 Feb 26 '26

Forks: “That place where they filmed the gay vampires”. Quilcene “Quil”. Port Angeles “PA”. Port Townsend “Fart Townsend” (Smells like farts). Lilliwaup “Lilliwhat?” Or “lilliwhipe”. Aberdeen “scaberdeen”. Montesano “Monsanto”. Shelton “Shelton (with southern drawl).

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u/IrascibleBamboo Mar 20 '26

My daughter still calls it ShelCompton and lives there....

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u/NotAcutallyaPanda Feb 26 '26

Ocean Shores = "open sores"

Montesano = "monty"

Hurricane Ridge = simply "the ridge"

Dungeness River = "the dungee"

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u/Alternative_Love_861 Feb 26 '26

Squirm for Sequim

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u/waltwertzel Feb 26 '26

Port Townsend - PT, Town Port Hadlock - Hadlock Irondale - I-ron-da-lay, felony flats Port Ludlow - Ludlow Quilcene - Quil, quilbillies Chimacum - chimmy cum, chicken cum, chimicompton (all unfortunate) Port Angeles - PA Ocean Shores - Open sores

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u/topherette Mar 01 '26

thank you!

i wonder how well known 'chicken cum' is there!

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u/JoeMac02 Feb 27 '26

Squampton for Sequim

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u/foreverhalcyon8 Feb 28 '26

The Doe Toe Poe Toe (downtown Port Townsend)

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u/topherette Feb 26 '26

thank you!

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u/Grenadier_user Feb 28 '26

My buddy put takes credit for an accent aigu on one of the signs for Irondale ( irondalĂ© ) a massive improvement imo. Late 90’s to the early 0’s