Months after the motel itself was demolished, the City of Clinton appears to have settled on a new plan for the Glancy Motel sign.
According to the Friday print edition of the Clinton Daily News, a report from a city council meeting stated the Oklahoma Highway Patrol would move the sign to 2225 W. Gary Blvd. (aka Route 66), right next to the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum.
The address is where the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop H headquarters is, but the state is building a new headquarters where the Glancy stood. The motel’s buildings were torn down in November.
The saga of the Glancy Motel was one of great hope and great disappointment in a relatively short time.
Local oilman Rick Koch originally had planned in 2021 to restore the Glancy and the long-defunct and neighboring Pop Hicks restaurant.
He backed away from the project to concentrate on the closed Whitten Inn, formerly a Ramada Inn.
Other proposals to preserve the Glancy site — including an RV park or an Airbnb location — weren’t as attractive to city officials as the Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s takeover of the property.
A fire destroyed the iconic Pop Hicks restaurant in 1999. Pop Hicks never was rebuilt because it lacked insurance. The restaurant opened in 1936.
The Glancy Motel at 217 W. Gary Blvd. (aka Route 66) was condemned by the city in 2019 after code violations. The motel was built in 1950 and remodeled in 2007.
(Image of the Glancy Motel sign in 2009 by Chuck Coker via Flickr)