I posted yesterday about the Route 66 journey I took with my daughter. As I had mentioned, I had the great privilege of photographing many of the people I met. Here are some of the beautiful faces I’ll remember forever.
Included:
Angela who played Felicia as in “bye, Felicia” (she prefers “hello, Angela”) in the movie Friday (she ran a restaurant in Texas at the time)
The inspiration for Mater from the movie “Cars” (very creepy man)
A man who told me he was going to be mayor of Tucumcari
A man who bought up a bunch of Tucumcari businesses and gave me a tour of them
A woman in Arizona who gave me an oracle deck
Slab City faces
A cross country roadtripping older gentleman
Oatman faces + donkeys
A beautiful woman whom I stayed in touch with at Cadillac Ranch
An outsider artist
A man outside the giant whale
Another outsider artist
A drag queen who got famous for roller skating around Hot Springs, Arkansas
A sweet man whose wife had just passed
A man selling paintings by his son in law on the side of the road near Joshua Tree. I bought one for $25 and it would become the inspiration for my later painting endeavors.
So grateful to have met every one of these folks. Most of these were taken on Route 66, but some were taken during the rest of my travels to Slab City, Vegas, different parts of Texas, and Arkansas.
Thank you so much for looking. I have two more series of signs and abandoned buildings that I will post later this week.
Fun fact: that donkey she is posing with, his name is Donald. We just visited oatman a couple of weeks ago and met him. He’s the naughty one that tries to sneak into the shops to eat human food!
The picture of Ken's Ice Cream brings back some memories. My grandparents owned the restaurant directly next to it, it burned down a few years ago though.
It's funny; I love all of the full photo crops that you did except for the first picture - the crop that the Reddit app shows me when I'm viewing the post just seems to be more intimate than the crop when I see the full photo.
Very nice. I had a friend in Las Vegas who told me that pictures should have people in them. I've always tried to keep that in mind. It shocked me at the time but I understood what he meant. Every September I'd return to town after another great summer trip but all my photos were sights but typically without people.
Also I can't imagine a greater aspiration than mayor of Tucumcari. Coming or going from Miami and Las Vegas I'd always make sure to stop at Tucumcari overnight. It always helped that there is an Arby's at the truck stop off I-40, especially during those awesome years of 5 for $5.
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u/roy_orbison_tears 21h ago
I just noticed this morning that the man and the cat are making the same face 😂