Buddy Holly memorial site in cornfield at crash site - Terry walked a mile and clearly other fans have, too
Detail of memorial: "Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper 2-3-59". (note that someone left glasses like Buddy's!)
Terry walks through the cornfield at the Buddy Holly memorial/crash site
Terry & Sheryl outside Guardian Angel Roadside Chapel, built in 1991
Chapel was named in honor of an aunt who believed her life had been saved by a guardian angel
Stained glass above altar was designed as beacon to interstate travelers
Chapel was built by Jack Kennedy family (probably not THAT Jack Kennedy!)
Terry, Charles & Sheryl enjoy dinner at Bennigan's Saturday night
Legendary Surf Ballroom (open over 60 years)
Marquee outside Surf Ballroom
Lawrence Welk
Early photo of Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk
Poster
Jules Herman
Jules Herman & wife, Lois Best (first Welk champagne lady)
Ken Delo
Bubble machine
Sign to left:
"This pay phone was used by Buddy Holly to call his wife Maria Elena in New York and by Ritchie Valens to call his road manager Bob Keene in Los Angeles on the evening of February 2, 1959. The phone was located backstage"
Dick Dale
Dick Dale
Dick Dale
Dick Dale
Big Tiny Little
Big Tiny Little
Big Tiny Little
Bob Havens
Mary Lou Metzger
Mary Lou Metzger
Mary Lou Metzger & Charles Letterman perform their duet of The Alphabet Song ("a" you're adorable... that's our Charles!)
Charles & Mary Lou embrace after song
Jack Imel
Jack Imel
Jack Imel
Jack Imel
Jack, Bob, Big Tiny, Mary Lou & Dick sing "God Bless America"
Bob Havens with wife, Rosa
Charles Letterman chats with Bob Havens
Welknoters Dick & Jeanne Shefveland with Mary Lou Metzger & Sheryl
Jeanne Shefveland, Charles Letterman, Mary Lou Metzger & Sheryl Buss
Dick & Jeanne Shefveland, Terry O'Donnell, Sheryl Buss & Charles Letterman
