Once upon a time in Lubbock

With all the recent negative press on the Lubbock County Medical Examiner's Office, let's go back 27 years and see how things haven't changed one bit.

Did you know there was a connection to Playboy Magazine, Hugh Hefner, and the Broadway Church of Christ?

Did you know that there once was a movie theater on 34th Street in Lubbock?

Like most things, it was lost to time and the construction of I-27.

On Saturday a Texas Historical Marker was placed at 34th and Toledo ave marking the location of Dagley Field, a World War II training site.

In this edition of 'Once Upon a Time in Lubbock', we look at the original "Do It Yourself" home improvement center, Handy Dan!

In this edition of 'Once Upon a Time in Lubbock,' we're going way back to the late 1960s and Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken.

In this installment of Once Upon a Time in Lubbock, we take another trip back to the 1980s for the best of Lubbock's retro TV commercials.

Lubbock has always had a number of television newspersons that went on to bigger and better markets. But what stands out to me as time has passed was the fashions of the day and how these folks rocked the fashions and hair!

If you went to Lubbock High like I did, 'Once Upon a Time', then you probably sat on some of these auditorium seats. Wooden, hard as a rock, and not comfortable.

Who would have thought there would be so much nostalgia for long-gone Lubbock businesses?

This time around, I decided to look at 3 iconic businesses that are long gone but left their mark on Lubbock.