Alex Foods

Sonoran immigrants, Alex Morales Sr. began selling his wife’s homemade tamales in Anaheim in 1906 from a horse-drawn wagon.

Morales, a ditch digger by trade grew the concept into a restaurant. The Alex Tamale Company opened this factory in the 1920s at 415 South Olive Street.

Alex Tamale Co. factory

The family run company was finally incorporated as Alex Foods in 1951. As the company came to be known, grew to become a major manufacturer of more than 200 premium prepared foods.

By the 1950s, Alex Foods had a fleet of thirty-two shiny trucks that delivered their tamales and other food products across Southern California, along with distributing produce that wasn’t Mexican food.

Albert Morales, a vice-president in the company, worked for the family business until well past normal retirement age.  Today the company became part of Don Miguel Mexican Foods.
Alex Foods