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About Downey, California
Downey is considered part of the Gateway Cities. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 111,779.
The City played a pivotal role in the U.S. space program by being the site for the building of Saturn V booster rockets and lunar-landing modules for the Apollo space program. Downey aerospace workers also built five space shuttles (including the ill-fated Columbia and Challenger).
Retail businesses, service industries, and manufacturing are now the city’s economic mainstays. Downey is home to the oldest surviving McDonald’s restaurant (opened 1953), a large Coca-Cola bottling factory, and a municipal art museum that houses works by local and national artists. The city’s library contains a collection devoted to the 1970s pop duo the Carpenters, who lived in the city in the 1960s.