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On Monday, February 2, the tour arrived in Clear Lake, west of Mason City, Iowa, having driven 350 miles (560 km) from the previous day's concert in Green Bay. Clear Lake had not been a scheduled stop; tour promoters hoped to fill the open date and called Carroll Anderson, the manager of the local Surf Ballroom, and offered him the show ...
The Surf Ballroom (also called the Surf) is a Historic Rock and Roll Landmark at 460 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, Iowa, United States.The Surf is closely associated with the event known colloquially as "The Day the Music Died" – early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P.
On the 11th night of the tour (February 2, 1959), they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. That night, Holly chartered an airplane from Dwyer Flying Service in Mason City, Iowa, intending to fly himself and his bandmates Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup to their next tour venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. The musicians had been ...
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from Feb. 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died, when Buddy Holly was killed Historic front page from the Des Moines ...
Monument in front of Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. In 1989, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the 1950s era, erected a stainless-steel monument depicting a guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers killed in the accident. It is located on private farmland, about 1.25-mile (2.01 km) west of the ...
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While performing in Clear Lake, Iowa, at the Surf Ballroom, the tour bus' heating system breaks down, so Buddy charters an airplane to fly to their next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota. Ritchie, Buddy, and the Big Bopper take off in the airplane during a snowstorm on February 2, 1959.
The poster's original owner, now 83, was 19 when he ran into Buddy Holly in the bathroom at the Green Bay show. "That was kind of neat," he said.