Julia’s Tortilleria
After visiting with Pappy at his office at Valley College, in the southwestern end of town, we’d often stop here for Julia’s marvelous hand-made corn tortillas.
Well, actually, we’d stop at the little store-front across the street (site in lower picture), where Julia’s English-speaking children would wait on us customers, and where, through the door in the partition, we could see Julia herself, seated on the floor with her back braced against the far corner of the rear room in front of a pile of masa, nimbly patting out the savory breadstuff we all loved.
After an absence of 20-some years, I returned to find Julia’s grandchildren on duty out front, still in the old store-front across the street, while Julia herself, now white-haired, continued to produce the blessed flatbread with her well-practiced hands. A national treasure, to my way of thinking.
Julia has a son in the California Legislature, these days, and doubtless other family success stories to tell, but the enterprise seemed on its last legs, even in its “new” digs (top photo), when we took these shots.
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