a warehouse where the taquitos were prepped<\/a> and Las Anitas, a sit-down restaurant across the way from Cielito Lindo. Both remain in the family.<\/p>\n\u201cWe were always reminded as children, \u2018No, we weren\u2019t just pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps,\u2019\u201d said Viviana, who remembered her mother asking her and her brother to wrap gifts for immigrant children every Christmas. \u201cThese women were their support system that made our family\u2019s success possible. They all struggled. My mom remembered that. So she taught us you always have to give back \u2014 always, always, always.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacManus met her husband of 51 years, Carlos MacManus, soon after he migrated to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1970s with aspirations to make easy money. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe brought me down from my cloud fast and said, \u2018Well, you\u2019re going to have to continue your education if you want that,\u2019\u201d he said. They were driving by Los Angeles City College when \u201cshe slowed down and said, \u2018That\u2019s your next school.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
At Occidental, where she worked for 34 years before retiring in 2011, Spanish professor Salvador Perez described MacManus as the \u201canchor\u201d of their department. She especially loved to teach Spanish classes tailored to native speakers, seeding her lessons with stories from the Chicano movement that she had witnessed in real time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer love was really food and storytelling, but behind the love was a genuine intellectual person,\u201d said Perez, who said that when his wife was pregnant with their first child, the food she craved above all was Cielito Lindo\u2019s avocado sauce. \u201cSusanna inculcated the value of tradition and heritage to everyone she knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even before she and her sisters took over for their mother, MacManus helped out whenever possible. One year, she noticed that a nightclub up the street from Cielito Lindo was always busy on weekends. She volunteered to stay open late and beckon the crowd for a late-night snack, bringing in more revenue in a few hours than they had earned the whole rest of the day. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe felt a great responsibility to her family, but also to the city at large and what it meant to everyone,\u201d said her son, Carlos Eduardo MacManus, an attorney.<\/p>\n
In her spare time, MacManus liked to travel with family and raise funds for Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights, the all-girls academy she attended. Though a proud torchbearer for what her mother and grandmother had created, MacManus didn\u2019t allow tradition to weigh down Cielito Lindo, as did too many of its Cal-Mex contemporaries.<\/p>\n
She \u201cwas more hip to new restaurants and cafes than we were,\u201d Viviana said, always checking out trends around town to see if they might fit her family\u2019s stall.<\/p>\n
Carlos Eduardo remembers chuckling when his mother introduced soyrizo to appeal to vegetarians \u2014 it\u2019s still available in Cielito Lindo\u2019s burritos. When Viviana was finishing grad school at UC San Diego, her parents took her to a local Mexican restaurant, trying carne asada fries for the first time. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe said, \u2018What is this abomination-slash-delicious thing?\u2019\u201d Viviana said. \u201cAnd she put it on the menu.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacManus is survived by her husband, Carlos MacManus; children Carlos Eduardo MacManus and Viviana MacManus; one grandchild; and sisters Gloria Calderon Goodman and Mariana Robertson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susanna MacManus was teaching Spanish at Occidental College in 1997 when the family business came calling. She had…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[37157,1582,276,37154,37148,246,37155,37156,8618,2961,224,5337,37151,17241,37153,37150,8463,37149,37152,14164],"class_list":{"0":"post-48597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-beef-taquito","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-carlos-eduardo-macmanus","12":"tag-cielito-lindo","13":"tag-family","14":"tag-food-festival","15":"tag-grandmother","16":"tag-immigrant","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-macmanus","21":"tag-mother","22":"tag-occidental-college","23":"tag-olvera-street","24":"tag-restaurant","25":"tag-susanna-macmanus","26":"tag-viviana-macmanus","27":"tag-way"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114817475771643501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}