institution, reed cowan spent yesterday at golden gate cookie company as they approach a milestone anniversary. >> this is our life. this is my life. >> reporter: golden gate cookie company owner kevindoesn't count the cookies so we did, 14,000 cookies a day, 365 days a year, and it's 60 years, more than 300 million cookies from the same place, and the same san francisco family. >> she's the one that mixes the batter. >> reporter: nancy chan is the cookie matriarch and maker of the san francisco institution. it's the 60th anniversary. he knows -- >> honor the mom. i have a long way to live but she don't have much time, 73. >> reporter: other fortune cook ear makers moved to big factories selling to global restaurants. the chans made a choice, keep it local. why did you keep it here in the street? >> i want people come to san francisco and taste one of the authentic san francisco invention, american products. >> reporter: you could have been way richer. >> i could but that's not my point. my point is the community, the people. >> reporter: community. >> yeah, communities. where you come from? >> reporter: people like this family from the netherlands who children saw the chan family c