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South San Francisco, California

San Mateo County · Population 66,105 · Card no. 10382

A Peninsula city with a hillside sign reading The Industrial City, and the birthplace of biotechnology.

Genentech was founded here in 1976 and the city now holds the largest biotech cluster in the world.
The sign was first laid out in whitewashed rocks in 1923.
Meatpacking and steel built the city.

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