El Charrito Restaurants menu dated 1956. The front of the menu features an illustration of "Jarabe Jaliscinse" which is a traditional Hispanic song/dance. Also on the front cover is the title which states "El Charrito Restaurants - Best Mexican Foods". The inside of the menu shows various meals and dishes available to purchase at the restaurant. Other illustrations of various Hispanic dances are shown throughout the menu. Some of which include "El Huapango Tamaulipeco", "Sones Huastecos", "Baile Del Conejo", "Jarabe Tapatio", "Baile De La Bamba", "Jarabe Michoacano", and "Baile De La Chilena". Throughout the menu are also small excerpts of the history of the restaurant as well as of Hispanic culture. Various line drawing of the different El Charrito restaurants are also shown. The first El Charrito restaurant was opened in 1937 by Luis Alvarado and his family. Shortly after, Alvarado began opening additional El Charrito restaurants throughout Oklahoma City and Kansas. Luis Alvarado married Mary Cuellar in the early 1930s. Mary was part of the Cuellar family who are the originators of the famed El Chico Restaurants. Operated by the Cuellar family, the Cuellars were among the early entrepreneurs who helped transform Tex-Mex food into the most popular and widespread form of Mexican American cuisine. Adelaida Cuellar was the original operator and owner of Cuellar's Cafe. The cafe would later become the popular Tex-Mex restaurant El Chico, once transformed by her sons in the 1940s.
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