45 years and counting
Taco Shop owner Pete Gonzalez, left, and his business partner Rae Anne Journey stand in front of the restaurant’s tiny kitchen. The Taco Shop celebrated its 45th anniversary last Wednesday.
Joel Martin
On the outside patio of The Taco Shop in Moses Lake is a small memorial to owner Pete Gonzalez’s parents. Fred Gonzalez, who passed away in July 2021, started The Taco Shop in 1977. Fred’s wife Aurora passed on in April of this year.
The first customers of the day begin to fill The Taco Shop Friday morning. The 45-year-old eatery has become a fixture in Moses Lake.
A taco, a tostada and a burrito are what’s for lunch Thursday at The Taco Shop in Moses Lake. The little restaurant still serves the same things it did 45 years ago.
Pete Gonzalez gets started in The Taco Shop’s kitchen Friday morning. Gonzalez sticks closely to the same recipes his father, Fred Gonzalez, used when he opened the shop in 1977.
MOSES LAKE — In Moses Lake on June 1, 1977, Columbia Basin Machine defeated Zip Trucking in Little League, Japan Airlines held a model airplane contest for kids and new potatoes were 10 cents a pound at Thriftway. While “Star Wars” was breaking box office records across the country, Lake Theater was still showing “King Kong” from the year before. Oh, and a little taco stand opened up downtown near the swimming pool.
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