Crowd Pays Respect to South Carolina Business Leader.

It was Sunday afternoon, mid-summer, with 30-foot tall neon colored Pedro shining in the sun and crowds waiting 40 minutes for a taco.

How could anyone believe the real Pedro, the patriarch and glorious icon lording over South of the Border, was dead?

Alan Schafer, 87, who created the sombrero-wearing Mexican figure, died Thursday, leaving a chromatic empire on I-95, a legacy of Democratic support and thousands of friends.

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