The Civil War Between Los Angeles and San Francisco

The most violent war in (imaginary) Californian history: the bloody clash between the great cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco! Perhaps the most profound upheaval in recent California history, the bloody, cataclysmic, and ultimately inconclusive civil war between Los Angeles and San Francisco produced massive urban devastation, involved over three million Californians in combat—brother […]

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The most violent war in (imaginary) Californian history: the bloody clash between the great cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco!

Perhaps the most profound upheaval in recent California history, the bloody, cataclysmic, and ultimately inconclusive civil war between Los Angeles and San Francisco produced massive urban devastation, involved over three million Californians in combat—brother against sister, biker against surfer—and resulted in the deaths of more than 20,000 combatants. As a conflict almost wholly ignored by the mass media and the entertainment industry—even though they, along with other major corporations, helped sponsor both sides of the hostilities—the Great War of the Californias was virtually forgotten only months, actually only days, after it had ended, whenever that was.

The posters are from a book/exhibit by Sandow Birk called In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from the Great War of the Californians. Too bad: I was really rooting for Los Angeles.

Recruitment Posters for an Imaginary War [Mental Floss]