Fashion and Finds in the City of Souls
The town of Colma, California, is more renowned for those who
don’t live there than for those that do. But Kohl’s Colma, from its
location at the center of town, offers a spirited shopping
experience to the more than 1,500 residents of the City of Souls
and its neighbors in San Mateo County.
Colma, also referred to as the City of the Silent and the City
of the Dead, got its nicknames thanks to a series of early 20th
century laws. Burial limitations and evictions caused many of San
Francisco’s cemeteries to be relocated here. The city developed
around the niche economy, and today underground inhabitants of the
2.2-square mile city outnumber the upwardly mobile nearly 1,000 to
1.
Kohl’s Colma sits at the corner of El Camino Real (Route 82) and
Serramonte Boulevard, horseshoed by the city’s 16 cemeteries at the
foot of San Bruno Mountain. The store’s location allows for easy
access from Daly City, West Lake, San Bruno, Millbrae and
Pacifica.
Colma has developed a reputation beyond reinternment and its
beautiful memorial parks and gardens. The smallest city in San
Mateo is a great place to see examples of Spanish-inspired
architecture. Colma Town Hall, a fine example, is situated across
Serramonte Boulevard from Kohl’s.
Pay Kohl’s a visit today. To paraphrase the saying, it’s great
to be alive (and to shop) in Colma.
