Thirty years ago this month, director James Cameron introduced the Terminator in The Terminator, setting the world on a path that would eventually make Arnold Schwarzenegger the governor of the most populous state in the US and make Michael Biehn into a vaguely recognizable name. The story begins in the skull-littered Los Angeles of 2029 (looking, 25 years before Cameron's Avatar, like it was made by an ambitious eighth grader) as sentient killer machines are wiping out every last trace of humanity, but most of the action takes place in high-1984 Los Angeles, where a time-traveling Terminator cyborg and a time-traveling human freedom fighter battle for the life of inept waitress Sarah Connor, the woman who will give birth to the man who will save humanity (isn't that always the way). From the stripmall gun shops of the Valley to the car-chase-friendly Downtown tunnels, here is your Los Angeles map guide to one of the most essential LA action movies, The Terminator:

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