Route 66 - Glenrio Texaco Station
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Route 66 - Glenrio Texaco Station
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A 1968 Pontiac Catalina sits in front of the dilapidated Texaco Service Station in Glenrio, Texas.
Today, Glenrio is a Route 66 ghost town on the Texas/New Mexico line. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Glenrio Historic District, it includes several service stations, diners, a motel, and the Route 66 roadway.
Joe Brownlee built both the Texaco Service Station and Brownlee’s Diner next door in the 1950s and lived in the home behind the station which he moved from Amarillo. Joe’s daughter, Roxann, still lives in the house and is the last resident in Glenrio.
When Roxann grew up, traffic was often bumper to bumper through town. So she and her six brothers and sisters stayed busy helping out in their parent’s many businesses. That all started to change when I-40 opened in 1973 and bypassed the town.
Roxann had married Larry Lee Travis in 1970, and they soon had a son. By 1975, almost every business in Glenrio was closed, and Larry needed a job to support his family. So he rented out the Standard Service Station and garage in Adrian, Texas, twenty-five miles away, and reopened the station.
On March 7, 1976, Lewis Steven Powell entered the station, made Larry kneel, and shot him in the back of the head before robbing the place. Roxann brought Larry’s beloved 1968 Pontiac Catalina home, parked it in front of her dad’s closed Texaco Station. It has been there ever since.
Special Features:
ABC Group "D is for Dilapidated" 3.21.22
Copyright 2022 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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January 22nd, 2022
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