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Crazy Water

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Crazy Water

PostcardsBy SCAMay 3, 2020Leave a comment

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.

Surf Ballroom

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Surf Ballroom

PostcardsBy SCAMay 3, 2020Leave a comment

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.

SCA Weekly News Review: May 3, 2020

NewsBy SCAMay 3, 2020Leave a comment

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