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3 | Oakland is a city on the East Bay section of the San Francisco Bay in UsefulNotes/{{California}}. |
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5 | Oakland is often described as "The City Across the Bay", "The Town", and various other names comparing it as to be basically UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco's younger brother. Oakland is most well-known for being the home of UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball's Athletics[[note]]Oakland was previously the home of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]]'s California Golden Seals, who moved to Cleveland as the Barons in 1976 (and subsequently folded two years later, being the most recent Big Four team to fold), the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]]'s Golden State Warriors, who moved across the Bay in 2019, and the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]'s Raiders, who moved to UsefulNotes/LasVegas in 2020 (and had earlier moved to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles in the 1980s before returning to Oakland for a second stint in the mid-90s). After nearly two decades of failing to get a new ballpark either in Oakland or elsewhere in the Bay Area, the A's plan to join the Raiders in Vegas by 2027, much to Mark Davis's chagrin.[[/note]], high crime rate, and for being the ending-point of the Transcontinental Railroad. |
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7 | The population currently stands at 420,000, making Oakland the 45th-largest city in America. It is a major West Coast port, in fact one of the five most important ports in the country. |
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10 | !!Media set in Oakland |
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12 | [[AC:Film]] |
13 | * The opening and closing scenes of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' take place in Oakland, in reference to the political party of the same name that was founded there (and the fact that it's director Ryan Coogler's hometown). |
14 | * ''Film/{{Moneyball}}'' is about the Oakland A's and their efforts to remain competitive with a fraction of the budget that their better-funded competitors have. |
15 | * ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'' entirely takes place here. |
16 | * ''Blindspotting'' is also entirely set here, complete with slang and the commentary on the city's rapidly increasing rate of gentrification, with the leads/writers hailing from the city. |
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18 | [[AC:Live-Action TV]] |
19 | * The later seasons of ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' are often set in Oakland away from the eponymous motorcycle gang's homebase of Charming (a fictional town located 50 miles from Oakland). |
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21 | [[AC:Music]] |
22 | * "iii. Telegraph Ave ("Oakland" by Lloyd)" by Music/ChildishGambino is about The Boy, the main character of ''because the internet'', driving from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles to Oakland to visit his ex-girlfriend while the fictional song "Oakland" plays on the radio. |
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24 | [[AC: Video Games]] |
25 | * ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' features Oakland as part of its Bay Area setting, where it is also the hometown of the game's protagonist. |
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27 | [[AC: Web Original]] |
28 | * ''[[{{Literature/Takotsubo}} Takotsubo: The story of a superhero]]'' on [=HitRECord=] is a {{Deconstruction}} of the SuperheroOrigin that follows Cord Cai, [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang an Asian-American gangster]] who lives there. Oakland's unfortunate reputation as a WretchedHive features heavily, since the twenty-something Cord spent his life [[StopBeingStereotypical trying to get out of the streets,]] [[TragicVillain only to start a gang in despair after his fiance dies]]. WordOfGod says that Cord is a superhero but can't acknowledge it due to InternalizedCategorism, and the tagline states that "Despite his own beliefs, he is in fact [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre a hero.]]" |
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30 | !!People from Oakland |
31 | * Creator/MahershalaAli (born in Oakland, raised nearby in Hayward) |
32 | * UsefulNotes/JerryBrown (born and raised in San Francisco, but moved to Oakland in the early '90s and served as mayor from 1999–2007) |
33 | * Creator/DavidCarradine (born in Los Angeles, raised mostly in the northeast US, but graduated from high school in Oakland) |
34 | * Creator/RyanCoogler (born in Oakland, raised nearby in Richmond) |
35 | * Creator/ClintEastwood (born in San Francisco; mostly raised in Piedmont, a small city completely surrounded by Oakland, but graduated from a high school in The Town proper) |
36 | * Music/GEazy (born in Oakland; spent early childhood in Fresno before moving to Berkeley and then back to Oakland) |
37 | * Creator/CaryFukunaga (born in Oakland; raised in multiple Bay Area cities) |
38 | * Creator/MarkHamill (born in Oakland as a [[MilitaryBrat Navy brat]], which led him to move numerous times while growing up) |
39 | * Music/MCHammer (born and raised; even served as a batboy for the A's during his teen years) |
40 | * UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris (born in Oakland;' raised in the Midwest, Berkeley, and Montreal; launched her political career in the Bay Area) |
41 | * Creator/BrandonLee (born in Oakland; shuttled between Hong Kong and California as a child due to his father's acting career) |
42 | * Creator/BruceLee (briefly lived in Oakland in the late 1960s, during which time Brandon was born) |
43 | * UsefulNotes/BillRussell (born and raised) |
44 | * Creator/{{Zendaya}} (born and raised) |
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