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Scandal: Is Casa Manana Older Than Reported?

According to the Wichita Daily Times, it is.

Troy Larson
May 22, 2023
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photo by author

When I first moved to Wichita Falls, I heard I had to try the red tacos at Casa Manana, so I did. I looked them up online and found a few news articles about Casa Manana, celebrating their 75th anniversary in 2022, a story about their 70th Anniversary in 2017 and another about their 65th Anniversary in 2012. I had heard that they opened in 1947, and I thought it would be neat to see the grand opening announcement in the newspaper, so I did a search of newspaper archives and found something interesting.

It’s an advertisement from the November 8th, 1943 edition of the Wichita Daily Times.

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