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Surf Ballroom & Museum

Clear Lake, IA

The restored Surf Ballroom is famous as the final venue where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson performed before their fatal 1959 plane crash. It remains an active concert venue and museum filled with music-history memorabilia.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: surfballroom.com

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