CFFC – Libraries, Bookstores, & Cultural Venues

CFFC – Libraries, Bookstores, & Cultural Venues

 

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Dan is now hosting Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge! Find information at the below link. Thanks so much for continuing this fun challenge each week, Dan.

Here are the ones from this week:

Libraries and Bookstores — CFFC

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wire paper holder boy with yellow cap at a library

library shelves full of books

orange chairs to sit in at the library (books in background)

huge gray elephant statue in the children’s area of the library

at a book store – looking down to the first floor from upstairs

The sign in the children’s area of the book store Barnes & Nobel, Jr. with a frog in clothes standing on a ladder

A pigeon nesting in the letter O on the library signage (Godeke Library) … but my photo only got part of the name GOD

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These were for last week:

Cultural Venues — CFFC

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Here are a few places we’ve been that are cultural.

The West Texas Walk of Fame, featuring the Buddy Holly statue, by sculptor Grant Speed, is located inside the Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, just west of the Center, on the corner of Crickets Avenue and 19th Street. The Plaza is open to the public dawn to dusk, year round. The West Texas Walk of Fame, and its induction process, are a project of Civic Lubbock, Inc. Many artists from around the area are honored here.

The Buddy Holly Center, a historical site, has dual missions; preserving, collecting and promoting the legacy of Buddy Holly and the music of Lubbock and West Texas, as well as providing exhibits on Contemporary Visual Arts and Music, for the purpose of educating and entertaining the public.

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Neon Buddy Holly (red) and guitar on the window at the Buddy Holly Center Museum here in town

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We visited the Piasano Hotel in Marfa TX one time. It is the historical site where the cast and crew stayed while filming the movie,”Giant”, which included James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Sal Mineo, Chill Wills, and Jane Withers among others.

From wiki: The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paisano_Hotel

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The USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL, in Pearl Harbor. After the ship was sunk, the bodies of 1,102 crew members were left underwater with the wreckage, which is still there today…a war grave. We visited this somber memorial many years ago.

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