Mexicali Restaurants

Santos Gamez was born in Durango Mexico in 1898. He came to Bakersfield in 1913 and started working for the railroad. Santos believed that if he began his own business and persevered, he could make it a success. Saving up his money, he was eventually able to purchase a piece of property on Baker Street. Here he built, with his own hands, a gas station and later a tortilla factory. It was on this site, in 1939, where he and his wife Trinidad established Mexicali Restaurants.