Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza in Lubbock, Texas

The "West Texas Walk of Fame" pictured above began as a tribute to Rock and Roller Buddy Holly in the late 1970s.  Waylon Jennings brought up at a meeting between Larry Corbin and Jerry Coleman that Holly should be recognized.  This conversation ended up in honoring the growing list of famous artists and musicians who had come from West Texas.  In 1979, a concert was held to help pay for the statue of Buddy Holly, and a plaque was placed around the base to honor the first inductee of the "Walk of Fame," Lubbock's own Buddy Holly.  In 1980 a second concert was held and Waylon Jennings of Littlefield, Texas became the next inductee.  Other inductees since then are Tanya Tucker, Dan Blocker, The Gatlin Brothers, Glen D. Hardin, Roy Orbison, Buddy Knox, Delbert McClinton, Jimmy Dean, Mac Davis, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore to name a few.