A local area icon whose claim to fame was introducing the fajita as a mainstay in Tex-Mex cuisine has died today at the age of 81.

Juan Antonio “Sonny” Falcon was originally from Mercedes, Texas and made his way to Austin in 1959 where he got a job in shipping and receiving at the Austin Meat Market. In 1962 Falcon married Guadalupe Guajardo and soon thereafter became the meat market manager in his wife’s parents’ East Austin neighborhood store, called Guajardo’s Ca...