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Galveston: Garten Verein Pavilion

Texas's Oldest Surviving Dance Pavilion — Built 1880, Still Standing

2704 Avenue O, Galveston, TX 77550

In 1880, a group of German businessmen built an octagonal dance pavilion in Galveston and called it the Garten Verein. The 1900 Storm took nearly everything in the city. The…

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Buddy Holly Center

The Lubbock-High Plains Music Trail

Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, and Joe Ely all grew up within 50 miles of each other. So did Bobby Keys,…
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The Boy Who Led Blind Lemon Through Deep Ellum

In the early 1920s, a teenage T-Bone Walker guided Blind Lemon Jefferson from bar to bar through Deep Ellum.
Longhorn Ballroom sign reading Tonite Sex Pistols and Jan 19 Merle Haggard
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Bob Wills Built It. Jack Ruby Ran It. Then the Sex Pistols Showed Up.
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Tina Turner, 1970 press photo. Jay Bernstein Public Relations, Los Angeles. Public domain.
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The Night Tina Turner Crossed the Freeway
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Don McLean performing in 1976, around the time he wrote and recorded "The Legend of Andrew McCrew"
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The Legend of Andrew McCrew
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