The Panhandle Places

Lubbock

Larger than Amarillo, probably by virtue of the nearly 30,000 students who attend Texas Tech University, Lubbock's history is wed to Amarillo and the other towns in the area by a shared Western history and frontier culture. Like Amarillo and Abilene, Lubbock also hosted rock musicians during the Route 66 heyday. It also reared some of its own, namely the dark-rimmed-glasses-wearing, pompadour-sporting Buddy Holly and his band, the Crickets.

These days Lubbock's as famous for its rousing Texas Tech and Lubbock Christian University games and unique history as it is for its Buddy Holly Walk of Fame and Texas-sized Holly statue. West Texans travel from miles around to party in the district formerly known as the Depot, fill in the Red Raider stands (Texas Tech games are usually at 97 percent or greater capacity), or to pop into the bevy of museums immortalizing Lubbock's wartime and agricultural heritage. Luckily, a lot of the landmarks are situated close together near the Depot Entertainment District, while others are clustered on the northern side of Texas Tech.

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