[News Film - LAS CUATRO MILPAS, San Diego's Oldest Mexican Restaurant]

this past Saturday now TV died and Petra Estudillo reaffirmed their wedding vows at St Anthony's Catholic Church after the mass and ceremony there was a dinner and reception in their honor at their home they were greeted and congratulated by many many friends in the San Diego area especially proud was their son Manuel and so were there seven grandchildren and their two great-grandchildren their five nieces and two nephews their little Restaurant Los cuatro Milpas on Logan Avenue is always closed on Sundays and Mondays but it was closed on Saturday of this week too in honor of the celebration 50 years of marriage foreign Petra in Albuquerque New Mexico and they were married that year he had come there from guanajato Mexico she from Michoacan he was 21 his bride 19. in 1926 they moved to National City a TV dad worked as a laborer in the National City Santa Fe railroad lumber yard La Senora estadio operated a grocery Market they had bought on National Avenue in 1936 Senor estadio opened a market La Victoria which is next to their restaurant on Logan Avenue Fiesta dios live in the same building that houses the market besides groceries they sell from the market tamales and tortillas that are made in the restaurant next door they grind their own corn and turn out close to 1500 tortillas a day mixed on the stone table the old-fashioned Mexican way and toasted on a grill next to it the price of Ebola of either Chile or chorizo with tortillas has gone up only slightly over the years it used to be 35 cents now it's 50 cents and you can see they don't lack for customers at lunchtime picnic tables and benches in the back room handle the Overflow from the counter stools and a couple of booths out front when the TV dad moved his family here in 1936 there was literally nothing out on Logan Avenue except the trolley that passed in front of his Market door in the past 36 years he has witnessed the building of a modern freeway the Interstate 5 that carries thousands of cars within a few hundred feet of the store and a sweeping bridge that spans the bay and deposits cars only a block or so away but you have to get off the main thoroughfare and seek out Las cuatro Milpas the four corn stalks to enjoy the native cooking of natividad and Petra eStudio and an increasing number of customers do enough that Petra must buy a thousand pounds of flour a wheat for tortillas and that either dad must buy 200 pounds of meat for tamales for 32 years they have operated this little restaurant working from 14 to 16 hours a day together they believe that to work is to stay young and the longer you work the longer you will stay young Petra is 70 now TV dad 72. and FTB dad eStudio reaffirmed their wedding vows at Saint Anthony's church on Saturday after 50 years of marriage and their little restaurant a squandro Milpas was closed that day