The Clovis City Council plans to present a proclamation honoring Franco's Restaurant's 50 years in business in Clovis tonight.

The restaurant was the oldest Mexican restaurant in in the community when it was to close March 29. As reported by reporter Gabriel Alexander in the Clovis Independent recently, the restaurant was "the dream of a farmworker who wanted a better life for her children will have come true."

Franco's Restaurant opened as Franco's Taco House on Pollasky Avenue just south of Eighth Street in 1958. Tacos were 25 cents, and Pollasky Avenue was a dirt road.

"It's time to retire," restaurant manager Rosalie Sandoval told Alexander. "We just wanted to make it to 50. That was our goal and we accomplished it."