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Giant Buddy Holly glasses

Lubbock, Texas, United States
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Two giant metal sculptures of Buddy Holly's iconic thick-framed glasses (one black, one rusty), each roughly 6 feet across, constructed by Texas artist Steve Teeters in 2002 for the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas -- Holly's hometown. A popular photo opportunity outside the museum, which also displays Holly's actual recovered glasses from his fatal 1959 plane crash inside.
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Site-level location · 33.5697° N, 101.8459° W
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Free, publicly visible outdoor sculptures outside a museum.
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Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX.
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