Here's an interesting news article about a story that unfolded 50 years ago in Kenosha concerning a photographer, Buddy Holly, great music, and an event that never was forgotten.
Wisconsin photographer remembers Buddy Holly
Nine days before the music died amid the twisted wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza in a frozen Iowa cornfield, it was very much alive in a downtown Kenosha ballroom.
Fifty years ago on Jan. 24 — it fell on a Saturday in 1959, just as it will this year — Kenosha photographer Tony Szikil was impatiently glancing at his watch. He had been booked for a wedding at what was then known as the Eagles Ballroom on 58th Street, but the current of what would endure as timeless music was fiercely tugging at him.
One floor above where the then 24-year-old Szikil was wrapping up his wedding assignment — or so he thought he was — Buddy Holly was strumming his Fender Stratocaster guitar to an audience of 1,500 energized kids
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Wisconsin photographer remembers Buddy Holly | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota
