San Francisco’s Quietest SuburbThe Genealogue
Colma, California—founded as a necropolis in 1924—has “1,500 aboveground residents,” according to Mayor Helen Fisicaro, “and 1.5 million underground.”For the first few decades, Colma’s residents were mainly gravediggers, flower growers and monument makers. But by the 1980s, other types of people and businesses were settling in next to the dead. Today the little city has many thriving businesses,