The original King Taco restaurant in the Cypress Park area of Los Angeles will be considered for designation as a Historic-Cultural Monument Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles City Council\u2019s Planning and Land Use Management Committee is scheduled to vote on the proposal Tuesday, following a unanimous recommendation from the city\u2019s Cultural Heritage Commission on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n
The restaurant, located at 1118 N. Cypress Ave., is widely recognized as a cornerstone of Los Angeles\u2019 taco truck culture and Latino culinary identity.<\/p>\n
According to the commission, King Taco\u2019s founders helped transform the city\u2019s food landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the establishment of King Taco, Raul O. and Maria G. Martinez not only created the first taco truck in the United States but also introduced the Mexican-style soft shell taco to the wider public and revolutionized the Latino culinary scene in Los Angeles,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n
The couple began by retrofitting an old ice cream truck with cooking equipment in 1974, serving freshly made tacos directly from the vehicle before establishing a permanent site at the corner of Cypress and Roseview avenues.<\/p>\n
City officials said the property meets the criteria for historic designation because it \u201cexemplifies significant contributions to the broad cultural, economic or social history of the nation, state, city, or community.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more than 50 years, King Taco has grown from a single location into a widely recognized brand, now operating 22 restaurants across Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.<\/p>\n
If approved by the committee, the proposal would advance to the full City Council for final consideration.<\/p>\n
The designation would also allow the city to temporarily halt demolition of the site for up to a year while preservation options are reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original King Taco restaurant in the Cypress Park area of Los Angeles will be considered for designation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,102314,67957,41749,21132,2961,9300,224,5337,250385,13235],"class_list":["post-727477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city","tag-committee","tag-designation","tag-historic","tag-king","tag-la","tag-landmark","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-taco","tag-vote"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116403548794496782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727477","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=727477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}