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Surf Ballroom

460 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, IA
📅 1948–present🏛️ Music VenueStill hereBuilt 1948
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The story

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper played their final concert here on February 2, 1959, hours before 'The Day the Music Died.'

Everything that was here

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