Auction Date:2012 Jan 26 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Three-quarter sleeved, gray and white striped shirt, featuring a Phil's Men's Shop manufacturer's label with “Holly” printed over it. This remarkable piece of rock & roll memorabilia was owned and worn by one of the genre's early innovators, the legendary Buddy Holly. And equally as remarkable is the fact that Holly can be seen wearing this very shirt in one of the most famous images ever taken of the star. On July 8, 1958, several hours before he and The Crickets took to the stage at the Electric Park Ballroom in Waterloo, Iowa, Holly was photographed while playing his Gibson J-200, as he sat atop a chest freezer in the ballroom's kitchen. Taken by then 17-year old Dick Cole, working part-time for the Waterloo Courier, Cole remembers “it brings back memories of Buddy and the Tuesday night teen dances we used to have at Electric Park. We were lucky because everyone came through here…Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis…and it only cost a buck-fifty to get in.” Holly's widow, Maria Elena, has said it is her favorite photograph of Buddy, and a large print of the iconic image is displayed at the Texas Tech University Museum in Lubbock, Texas, Holly's hometown. Originally procured from a Holly memorabilia auction circa 1991, the shirt was on display at the Rock & Roll McDonald's in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, from 1991 until 2010, at which time all of the restaurant's memorabilia was placed in storage until October 2011. 100% of the consignor's proceeds from this item will be donated to Ronald McDonald Charities of Eastern Wisconsin. Accompanied by an LOA from the previous owner who sold the shirt to the Rock & Roll McDonald's. The bottom of each side seam has six holes and is laced together with a piece of white shoe-string. In fine condition, with a few holes and sewing string to each shoulder, and some lighter areas to the hem.
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