San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of
Southern California
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typically configured by U.S. commentators and film producers to include the areas of
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
to
San Diego
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and sometimes even
San Bernardino
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to
Riverside
Riverside may refer to:
Places Australia
* Riverside, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston, Tasmania
Canada
* Riverside (electoral district), in the Yukon
* Riverside, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Alberta
* Riverside, Manitoba, a former rural m ...
. Although Los Angeles and the
West Coast West Coast or west coast may refer to:
Geography Australia
* Western Australia
*Regions of South Australia#Weather forecasting, West Coast of South Australia
* West Coast, Tasmania
**West Coast Range, mountain range in the region
Canada
* Britis ...
have been treated as a futuristic concept geographic region by different names in other works — "Los Andiegoles" in the novel ''
A Friend of the Earth
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'', "Rattown" in the novel ''
Dr. Adder
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'', and "Mega City 2" in the comic stories of
Judge Dredd
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; San Angeles remains the more popular identifying description.
Fiction
San Angeles was first conceived as a setting for the 1982 movie ''
Blade Runner
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'' in an early script. Ten years later, the 1993 script for the 1994 movie ''
Double Dragon
is a beat 'em up video game series initially developed by Technōs Japan and released as an arcade game in 1987. The series features twin martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, as they fight against various adversaries and rivals.
The original ...
'', post-earthquake California merged Los Angeles and San Diego into one
megalopolis
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called San Angeles, half of which was under water. At about the same time, the San Angeles concept city also was used in the 1993 movie ''
Demolition Man'', where the earthquake-destroyed Los Angeles of 2010 was replaced by the city San Angeles that stretched from San Diego to Santa Barbara.
[Wong, Cy. (April 16, 1993) ]Los Angeles Times
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''Movie: Action-thriller starring Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone is being filmed in the city this week.'' Section: ME-Metro; Page 1. The Demolition Man/San Angeles, a modified
Irvine, California
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set in the year 2032, maintained a police force called "SaPD" (for San Angeles Police Department), which used black and white, gull-winged cars having SaPD emblazoned on them.
The 1993 ''Demolition Man'' movie also set the fictional Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Museum in San Angeles, even though
Arnold Schwarzenegger's first run for political office would not be for another ten years.
In 2000, the Icebox.com live-action Web series "The Hanged Man" positioned fictional detective Hugo Manes as being from the San Angeles Police Department. In 2001, American
printmaker
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Edward Ruscha
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released a series of seven postcard-size color etchings that he entitled "Los Francisco San Angeles" to reflect how the etchings made light of the cultural distance between Northern California and Southern California. Ruscha's concept Los Francisco San Angeles was analyzed in 2004 for
Arts & Activities Magazine by Tara Cady Sartorius, Curator of Education at the
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
San Angeles is also the fictional home town of the main characters in ''
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
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''.
There's also San Angeles in the television series, ''
Sliders
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Arts
* K.K. Slider, a fictional character within the ''Animal Crossing'' franchise
* '' The Slider'', a 1972 album by T. Rex
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* ...
'', in the episode called "''Double Cross''", where the city spreads from
San Francisco
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to
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
.
Non-fiction
In addition to uses of San Angeles by the entertainment industry, political causes and businesses alike have adopted the concept. For example, in April 1989,
Camp Pendleton
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was viewed as the last remaining open-space barrier against a future "San Angeles" composed of Southern California boom and sprawl from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. In 2002, environmentalist and commentator Tershia d'Elgin described a then-recent federal district court ruling on the
Endangered Species Act of 1973
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related to paving over land as promising "to transform our county into El Toro too. Everything that has made San Diego worth living in will be gone. It will become San Angeles." That same year, the 2002 political movement to have
San Fernando Valley
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seceded from Los Angeles to become an independent incorporated city of its own suggested ''San Angeles'' as the potential new name for the proposed incorporated city. However, "San Angeles" ranked ninth in popularity behind the name "San Fernando Valley" in a field of eleven potential names. Along with the proposed "Los Fernando", "San Angeles" was viewed as an absurd juxtaposition which made no sense at all in Spanish.
In 2006,
Marissa Mayer
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,
Google
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's then 31-year-old product-launch czar, seized on the San Angeles concept to describe how Google might modify its home page:
We're still not ready to make really fundamental changes and blast all of our products on our home page. utthere are a few key concepts I've been thinking about in terms of how we can change navigation on our site. One is what I would call the San Angeles or Los Diego strategy. You take large product and merge them together into the biggest possible nucleus. So if you took San Diego and Los Angeles together and merged them into one mega-city, that's even bigger and more memorable than the two cities independently... It is hard for people to remember more than 5 or 10 products from a particular company. If we can take each of the products we have and make them even larger and more meaningful to people, I think there’s a lot of benefit that could be had by both the users, because they don’t have to remember quite as much.Business Week
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(June 30, 2006)
Inside Google's New-Product Process: The philosophy is, try a bunch of ideas, refine them, and see what survives, says Marissa Mayer, the search giant's product-launch czar.
' Section: Technology.
See also
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SanSan
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Megacity
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Megalopolis (city type)
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Fictional elements introduced in 1993
Fictional populated places in California