The Glancy
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The Glancy Motor Hotel • Clinton, OK • Day Four
After leaving Erik, OK on Day Three, we made our way to Clinton, OK to photograph a sign. Yes, that’s right, just a sign. But it was a great sign. It was the sign for the Glancy Motel.
The Glancy Motor Home opened in July of 1950 by Opal and Chester Glancy. Like many establishments on Route 66, The Glancy rode high until the completion of Interstate 40, which precipitated its decline. Undaunted, the Glancy’s continued to run the motel into the 1970s. After changing hands, the Glancy limped along, its reputation plummeting. It underwent a renovation in the mid 2000s, but continued to slide into ill repute. It was eventually condemned, and closed. Had we done this Route 66 trip 18 months earlier, we may have gotten the chance to photograoph more than the sign — the motel was demolished in 2023.
A silver lining: there are plans to renovate and relight the sign as part of the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum. I hope that happens.
You can read all about the Glancy and see photos of it through the years here.
000 About This Series
From April 12 through April 20, 2025, I was on a Route 66 Photography Adventure (The Trip) with three good friends and like minded photographers. This series is recap of The Trip in stories and images.
All of the images were shot on that historic road or within a couple of miles of it. Neither the images nor stories are necessarily presented in chronological order.
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