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The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences is a new performing arts venue in Lubbock, Texas.Groundbreaking took place on April 20, 2017, with more than 500 people in attendance, including Lubbock Mayor, Dan Pope, board chairman of the Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association, Tim Collins, and executive director of Ballet Lubbock, Nicholas Dragga.
Buddy Holly Center. / 33.578564; -101.842818. The Buddy Holly Center is a performance and visual arts center in Lubbock, Texas, dedicated to Buddy Holly as well as the music of Lubbock and West Texas more broadly. The building in which it is located opened as the city's Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway depot in 1928.
The Lubbock Memorial Civic Center is a convention center located in Lubbock, Texas. It was built in 1977 and dedicated to the memory of local residents who died in the Lubbock tornado of 1970 that struck the site of the center. Concluding in November 2015, the building underwent extensive renovation work, covering bathrooms, meeting rooms ...
Lubbock ( / ˈlʌbək / LUB-ək) [ 7 ] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, [ 3 ] the city is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. [ 8 ] The city is in the northwestern part of the state, in the Great Plains region, an ...
United Supermarkets Arena. / 33.5812611°N 101.8866361°W / 33.5812611; -101.8866361. United Supermarkets Arena (previously the United Spirit Arena) is a multipurpose arena on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The 15,300-seat arena opened in 1999 and is home to the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball, Texas Tech Lady ...
The concept of a Walk of Fame for West Texas began as an idea between Waylon Jennings, Larry Corbin and Jerry Coleman as a way to recognize the Lubbock born Buddy Holly. This idea quickly grew into a way of honoring the numerous artists and musicians that came from West Texas. In 1979, Buddy Holly was the first inductee into the Walk of Fame ...
Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...
Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock. [2] The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. [3] It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, [4] a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as ...