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Sandi Tovias is the co-owner of Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula.

Photo by Rob Varela, Ventura County Star

Sandi Tovias is the co-owner of Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula.

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  • Sandi Tovias is the co-owner of Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula.
  • Sabrina Castaneda takes an order from Richard Huvard (left), Dan McNulty and Jerry Freislebem at Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula. Castaneda is part of the fifth generation of the Diaz family to work at the restaurant.
  • Familia Diaz restaurant co-owner Dan Diaz shows customers to their table at the Santa Paula restaurant.
  • Jerry Freislebem of Encino arrives for lunch at Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula. A plaque near the door identifies the restaurant as a Ventura County historic landmark.
  • Tony Diaz (left) chats with Pete Bush of Ventura at Familia Diaz restaurant in Santa Paula. Diaz's parents started the business.
  • Eleanor Baca, one of the cousins of the Diaz family, has worked at Familia Diaz restaurant since she was a teenager.

In the 1950s, when the Santa Paula restaurant Familia Diaz went by the name Las Quince Letras, laborers would line up at the back door to have their pails filled with menudo, a traditional Mexican soup, for 50 cents a ladle.

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