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Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States and Canada feared that the Japanese might invade Alaska or the Aleutian Islands, which jut westward in the no…
In 1890, Santa visited the children of Old North Lubbock at the community party held in a dirt-floored blacksmith shop. From its early days, the settlers in Lubbock celebrated Christmas.
Bobby Keys, the legendary rock saxophonist from the small Texas town of Slaton, was perhaps best known for his hard-partying lifestyle.
“Thanksgiving Day, 1893, dawned clear and bright after a night that was cold enough to freeze a quarter inch of ice over the water bucket on the back bench.”
In the fall of 1939, the growing city of Lubbock had a population of 31,853.