Line #6 UsefulNotes/Oakland


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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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