Chapter 5 - The North American Manufacturing Core

Even though Santa Clarita is a small town and nothing comparable to the North American Manufacturing Core, it still tries to compete by having an enormous industrial park conveniently located on the east side of the valley next to Interstate 5. Back in the early 1900's around Placerita Canyon near the city of Newhall, gold was being mined in the local rivers and then traded between the people who once settled there.  The industrial park has over 706 companies ranging from machine shops for airplanes to little hole-in-the-wall sandwich shops.  When I was in high-school one of my first jobs was working at a telephone company on Avenue Stanford on the lower south side of the park at a family friend's business.  
                               
                                                                            Industrial Park




Sources:

- http://www.santa-clarita.com