May 30, 2011

The Father Of The Mother RoadBy DailyMail.co.uk

Angel Delgadillo is sitting on a bench outside his Route 66 gift shop while a gaggle of Japanese tourists crowd round fussing and taking pictures.

‘Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheeeeeese,’ he says as they sit, two-by-two next to him until another fan approaches.

Bertrand Laisney lives in Paris but is driving Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles. He explains that he was compelled to stop in Seligman, Arizona, where Angel lives, after reading a half-dozen guidebooks about the ‘Mother Road’ that ‘all tell about Mr Delgadillo.’

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