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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 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 legendary Surf Ballroom, where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper performed their final show, getting expanded visitor center See renderings as Clear Lake breaks ground on larger ...
Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,687 at the 2020 census. [2] ... In 1947, the Surf Ballroom burned down; a new ...
Their final show together was at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 5, 2022. [ 8 ] After suffering from Alzheimer's for two years, Jimmy Gilmer died at the age of 83 in Amarillo, on September 7, 2024, eight days before his 84th birthday.
20150817 01 Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa: Author: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA: Camera location: View this and other nearby images on ...
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 ...
After arriving from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson gave their last performances, appearing at the Surf Ballroom at 460 North Shore Drive in Clear Lake, Iowa. [9] [10] Born: Jari Tervo, Finnish author; in Rovaniemi