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33 unusual facts about Lubbock


2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

Aaron Bertram

Aaron Bertram (born April 3, 1981 in Lubbock, Texas) is a trumpet player for third wave ska band Suburban Legends, and member of the children's group Kids Imagine Nation and is currently teaching music and movement to preschool students in Orange County, CA.

Barry Tubb

Tubb has participated in gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration each September in Lubbock, Texas.

Bobby Livingston

Livingston was originally enrolled at Estacado High School before transferring to Trinity Christian High School in Lubbock, Texas for his final year of school.

Chris Galanos

Chris Galanos (born February 7, 1982) is the pastor of Experience Life in Lubbock, Texas and was recently named the youngest mega-church pastor in the country.

Christ the King Cathedral School

Christ the King Cathedral School (CTK) is a Catholic school in Lubbock, Texas.

Daniel Harper

His personal best time is 45.60 seconds, achieved May 5, 2012 in Lubbock, Texas.

Dika Newlin

Newlin herself sang in a costumed performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, which she had translated into English, in Lubbock, Texas in 1999.

Erika Monroe Williams

A native of Southern California, Monroe Williams started as a news anchor in Lubbock, Texas, as the main anchor and health reporter for Fox affiliate KJTV-TV.

Gary Ashby

Ashby was born in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from Monterey High School.

Greg Minton

Gregory Brian Minton (born July 29, 1951 in Lubbock, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for the California Angels and San Francisco Giants.

Herbert Southworth

At Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, he majored in history, with a minor in Spanish.

Horry County, South Carolina

The sculpture was designed by Lubbock, Texas artist Garland Weeks designed and stone base that it’s mounted on was created by Coastal Monument of Conway, South Carolina.

Joseph Morton Ransdell

Joseph Morton Ransdell (1931–2010) was an associate professor of philosophy from 1974 to 2000 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Julian Mandrake

Julian's career in rock music began growing up in Lubbock, Texas where he found his passion for music at a young age.

Kamie Ethridge

Ethridge played guard for Monterey High School, in Lubbock, Texas.

KOB

KOBR has been a KOB satellite since 1983, after previously operating as a free-standing local station with a primary NBC affiliation and later as a satellite of NBC affiliate KCBD-TV in Lubbock, Texas.

KTGB-LP

KTGB-LP is a low-power television station affiliated with The Inspiration Network, operating on UHF channel 26 in Lubbock, Texas.

Lubbock Lights

The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas, from August–September 1951.

Lucilia mexicana

Results showed that in two consecutive years, there was a considerable difference in the abundance of L. mexicana found in the three cities of Junction, Guadalupe, and Lubbock from one year to the next.

Paul Seitz

Window on a War: An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict, Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press

Philip N. Diehl

Diehl graduated from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas and earned a B.A. degree from Austin College where he was a member of Sigma Tau Epsilon and active in political organizing on campus and in the community.

Raza Unida Party

In Lubbock, the youth organization was headed by journalist Bidal Aguero, who later worked in the Raza Unida Party.

Rose Rosenblatt

A coming of age story of a teenage girl in Lubbock, Texas who transforms from a conservative, abstinence until marriage pledging Southern Baptist to a Democratic feminist and supporter of gay rights.

Shea Salinas

Robert O'Shea "Shea" Salinas (born June 24, 1986 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.

Steve Forde

When the gigs were lean he would often be working in bars, building fences or riding bareback broncos in Lubbock, Texas.

Surf Ninjas

The studio New Line Cinema released Surf Ninjas two weeks earlier than its commercial release date in Evansville, Indiana and Lubbock, Texas as part of a test of regional markets.

Texas Longhorns baseball

Texas's rivalry with Texas Tech dates back March 22, 1968, when the Longhorns beat the Red Raiders 7-5 in Lubbock.

Texas State Highway Loop 493

In Woodrow, the route passes Lubbock-Cooper High School at Woodrow Road.

Texas Tech University School of Music

Texas Tech University School of Music is a school within the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

The Biscuit Brothers

The show is presented by KLRU, a PBS member station in Austin, and in addition to airing there (as of January 2006) the program is airing on Texas PBS stations in Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Waco, Temple, Lubbock, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Tommy Hancock

Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Hancock's grandmother had him classically trained in violin.

Tyler Lyons

Tyler Lyons, son of Monte and Lori Lyons, was born in Lubbock, Texas.


Asiatic Petroleum Company

The company was involved in the early developments of Frank Whittle in the jet engine field, a Mr. I Lubbock of the company devising a suitable combustion chamber design, known as the 'Lubbock Burner' and used in the Power Jets WU and subsequent engines.

Bryan A. Garner

Bryan A. Garner (born November 17, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas) is a U.S. lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher who has written several books about English usage and style, including Garner's Modern American Usage and Elements of Legal Style.

Bud Andrews

Andrews (first name pronounced SER CEE) was born in Lubbock to Curcy Andrews, Sr., originally from Honey Grove in Fannin County in northeast Texas, and the former Ollie Lee Townsend (1907–1993), who grew up on a ranch in Plains near Brownfield in West Texas.

Clayton Williams

He defeated a field of candidates for the nomination that included former U.S. Representative and outgoing Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance of Lubbock, Clements' former Secretary of State Jack Rains of Houston and Dallas lawyer Tom Luce.

Cline Paden

The institute offers college-style instruction in Lubbock and a series of satellite schools in forty-six states and in such countries as Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and Trinidad.

Duane Simolke

Duane Simolke (born 1965) is an American writer based in Lubbock, Texas, who has authored The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, Holding Me Together, The Return of Innocence (with Toni Davis), and New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio, based on the original Sherwood Anderson classic.

Gene Mayfield

Memorial services for Mayfield were held on October 5 at the Lake Ridge United Methodist Church in Lubbock, with the Reverend Don Caywood of Odessa officiating.

Herbert Mayfield

In the late 1940s, the Mayfield Brothers were warmup musicians in Lubbock and Amarillo for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Hank Snow, and other Country groups.

Jerry Clower

Eventually, tapes of Clower's speaking engagements wound up in the hands of Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes and Bud Andrews in Lubbock, Texas, who had him make a better quality recording which they promoted.

Just the Ten of Us

The series focuses on Graham Lubbock (Bill Kirchenbauer), a Catholic gym teacher who used to teach at the high school that Growing Pains characters Mike and Carol Seaver (Kirk Cameron and Tracey Gold) had attended; and the father of eight children.

KFYO

KTTZ-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/39 digital) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, which formerly used the call sign KFYO-TV

KZII-FM, a radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, which used the call sign KFYO-FM from February 1985 to March 1986

KJTV

KJTV-TV, a television station (channel 34) licensed to serve Lubbock, Texas, United States

KJTV-CD, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to serve Lubbock-Wolfforth, Texas

KTTZ

KTTZ-TV, a television station (channel 39 digital/PSIP 5) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States

KTTZ-TV

The 13-part music interview show is hosted by Lubbock native singer and songwriter Kenny Maines, member of The Maines Brothers Band and uncle to Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines.

KTXT

KTXT-FM, a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States

KTTZ-TV, a television station (channel 39 digital) licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, which used the call sign KTXT-TV from 1962 to 2012

KUPT

While KUPT is focused on the Lubbock television market, the city that the station's main license and transmitter is based in—Hobbs, New Mexico—is within the Odessa / Midland market.

Louis Curtiss

Other Curtiss railroad architecture included the 1910-1912 Union Terminal in Wichita, Kansas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Sweetwater, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Lubbock, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Snyder, Texas, the 1909-1911 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Post, Texas, and the 1910-1911 Joplin Union Depot in Joplin, Missouri.

Lubbock High School

Morris W. Turner, Class of 1950 (1931–2008), businessman; mayor of Lubbock, 1972–1974

Manzanita Sol

The drink is known to be available at Walmart, Albertsons, H-E-B, Ralphs, Kmart, Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, Dominick's, Target, Vons, Stater Bros., United Supermarkets in the Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas area, and other smaller chains and smaller family run stores.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

He was hence part of the council, along with Mayor Jim Granberry, charged with the rebuilding of Lubbock after the widespread destruction caused by the storm.

Pamela Melroy

After completing a master’s degree, she attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas and was graduated in 1985.

Reese Air Force Base

Currently, the city of Lubbock has designated it as a research and business park named Reese Technology Center.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

Teacher Retirement System of Texas

It was made possible thanks to passage of Senate Bill 1846, sponsored by Senator Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock and Representative Vicki Truitt of Southlake.

Texas State Highway Loop 289

The Dixie Chicks reference Loop 289 in "Lubbock Or Leave It", a track from their 2006 release "Taking The Long Way".

The Education of Shelby Knox

Lead singer Natalie Maines, who is from Lubbock, subsequently spoke (during a 2006 episode of VH1 Storytellers) about watching the film and drawing from her own experiences of living there to write the song.

The Maines Brothers Band

Several albums and tracks are named after the area, including "Hub City Moan" (1981 album and track) after Lubbock's nickname, the "Hub City"; "Rt. 1 Acuff" (1980 album) after Acuff, Texas, and "Panhandle Dancer" (1982 album) after the Texas Panhandle.