Everyone who has lived in Tijuana for a long time recognizes the facade of El Rodeo; a restaurant located in the heart of Salinas Boulevard. El Rodeo is one of the most emblematic culinary places in the city and last Sunday, this wooden place turned 45 years of serving, not only to residents from Tijuana, but to people from all over the places who come to visit this border city.

It was on Sunday, March 19 of 1972; the same year the Tijuana River was barely being canalized and the two huge towers of the Grand Hotel were being placed on the boulevard. That day, the wooden doors of this famous place were open to the public.

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"Is like traveling for a while to the past," Felipe Pavlovich, owner of this famous restaurant, told to the local newspaper, El Sol de Tijuana. El Rodeo is not only known by serving barbecues, quesadillas, machaca, beans, coyotas and meat. It is also known by simulating the desert and village of cowboy films that will totally make you feel like you are living in the 1820s.

The place has been witness of the great changes in Tijuana. Hotels, shopping centers, major changes to the city's infrastructure, and soon one of the most ambitious projects in the city that aims to turn it into a metropolis in a few years. It will be at that time between large buildings, bright windows and giant screens that the well-known yellow sign of El Rodeo and the famous cow carrying the wagon at the entrance will continue to witness the new Tijuana.

Via El Sol de Tijuana

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