Along 66, August 2019: Goodbye Glancy's, Hit and Run at Soulsby's

These are taken from Ron Warnick's Route 66 News blog site.  He has one or more posts every day and in much more detail.  I only take the ones I'm most interested in to write about in this blog.  So for the whole story, you should go to his site.

AUGUST 11-- The Clinton, Oklahoma, city council unanimously voted to condemn Glancy's Motel on Route 66.  It is now in really bad shape and has become a problem with law enforcement.

The motel has declined ever since the famous Pop Hicks restaurant burned in 1999.

Always hate to see a motel go down like this and wish we'd have gotten a chance to eat at Pop Hicks but Liz and I didn't get interested in Route 66 until 2002.

AUGUST 15--  Hit and Run driver damages a gas pump  at Soulsby Gas Station in Mt. Olive, Illinois last week.  Mike Dragovich has owned the station since 1997.  Surveillance camera show the deed was done by motorcyclists.

Henry Soulsby built the station in 1926 and his son Russell ran it for many years until 1993.  He sold it to Dragovich in 1999 and died the same year.

Own Up To It, Folks.  --RoadDog