Mae West: New Mexico

MAE WEST — — who often toured — — slept in almost every state, and tourists continue to find her footsteps from coast to coast. One Englishman was delighted to discover Mae had touched down in New Mexico.
• • "Route 66," rhapsodizes the British journalist Owen Adams [in the UK's Sunday Mirror on 30 December 2007], "just like the song says, winds from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles all the way. And you can still find classic rock ’n’ roll blasting from Wurlitzer jukeboxes in neon-lit diners, drive-ins and roadhouses."
• • Shortly after reaching Route 66’s mid-point, his tour bus crossed from Texas to New Mexico — — and encountered a double dose of WEST.
• • According to Owen Adams, "Soon we reached Gallup, location for countless old Western movies. The Hotel El Rancho is where everyone from MAE WEST and Doris Day to Errol Flynn and Burt Lancaster stayed, and it has been lovingly restored with signed photographs of the stars lining the walls. The Cosmos tour makes an irresistible diversion from the old Route 66 to take in the Grand Canyon in Arizona — — just as spectacular as it appears in all the photographs and films. ..."
• • The Hotel El Rancho is located here: 1000 E Highway 66, Gallup, NM 87301. They claim to remember which room was Mae's so ask the front desk clerk.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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