DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Club Flamingo
The dinner-dance club was a staple in every urban entertainment district in the country from the 1930s into the 1960s.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Crazy Water
The gateway arch sign to Mineral Wells, Texas, advertises the home-ground CRAZY Water, the mineral-laden water that caused this small spot on the prairie west of Fort Worth to be the mineral springs spa of central Texas from the 1880s to the 1940s.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Surf Ballroom
On the Day the Music Died, February 3, 1959, the plane that lifted Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson into a fateful snowstorm departed from Clear Lake, Iowa, bound for the next venue on their Winter Dance Party tour in Moorhead, Minnesota.