Morcomb Service Station - Myrtle Avenue Cultural Entryway Photos

Click images to enlarge This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Listed April 6, 2006
Morcomb's Service Station and House Built 1930 and 1936 6024 West Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, Arizona Historic Plaque Reads: "Ed and Bessie Morcomb and their son Den acquired this property in 1935, as an 18-hole miniature golf course called "Dinky Links". Within one year of the purchase, they converted the golf course into a Signal Oil Company service station and began construction on the adobe house, using earth from the site for the bricks. Upon the death of his father, Harry, their other son, returned home from the war and ran the business with his mother and brother. Upon his death in 2004, his children sold the property to the City of Glendale. The city began efforts to restore the service station and adobe house in 2007." Historic gas pumps and an adobe house built by the Morcomb family stand in a small park at the city's "cultural gateway" for motorists cruising by Grand and Myrtle avenues near downtown Glendale. In its early days, long before gas stations stood on every corner, the Morcomb station was a key stop for travelers along Grand Avenue (or US 60). The station sold gas until 1973, and its repair shop lasted through the 1990s. Directions: 61st Avenue and Northview (take Northview West of 59th Avenue [N of Glendale Ave] to 61st Avenue. Turn left, then left into alley. Park in parking lot off the alley. Photos taken 12/22/10 by Joyce Himes