Page 10 - Midnight Shift News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Lubbock business in brief

Chan's work paved the way for techno and house music favorites Amelie Lens, Charlotte de Witte, Peggy Gou and more to tour Singapore.

Upcoming Hub City events THURSDAY • Summer Showcase Concert Series, Plain Brown Wrapper at Buddy Holly Center, 5:30 p.m. • Patio Nights, Jacob Esary at McPherson Cellars, 6 p.m. FRIDAY • SPiVEY at Two Docs Brewing Company, 7 p.m. • Chris Hudgins at Cotton Court Hotel, The Midnight Shift, 7 p.m. • Carson Jeffrey at The Blue Light Live, 8 p.m. SATURDAY • City Parks Scavenger Hunt at City of Lubbock Parks & Rec • Lubbock Downtown Farmers Market, Buddy Holly Avenue and 19th Street, 9 a.m. • Stay Active in the Plaza at Buddy And Maria Elena Holly Plaza, 9 a.m. • ...

Upcoming Hub City events

Outdoor space at the Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa. Kate Berry/Thunderbird Hotel In 1929, a used-car salesman in Waco named Edgar Lee Torrance opened what would become the first motel chain in America. With its cheesy white-stucco wink to the Alamo’s facade, Torrance’s Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts featured individual carports for guests, telephones in each room, and “a Beautyrest mattress on every bed,” according to newspaper advertisements. The chain’s eventual expansion to twenty courts in six Southern states predated the nation’s first Holiday Inn, which didn’t open until 1952, and ...