FEBRUARY 29th - Look Like Buddy Holly



On this day in 1980, Buddy Holly’s glasses were found after missing since his death in a plane crash that also killed Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959. They were not recovered from the wreckage on the day it was found because they had been thrown farther away and buried under snow. That April, once the snow melted, they were recovered along with the Big Bopper’s gold watch. Since that time, they sat in an envelope in the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's office, until opened on this day in 1980. You may be thinking, Big deal. Just a pair of glasses. Well, first off they were the glasses of a damn big rock star who died tragically. Buddy Holly made glasses cool. And that’s a good thing. Because people who wear glasses have some issues to deal with. The name calling is secondary. Four eyes? Psssh. Why would that be a bad thing? Extra eyes mean seeing more. And there is a lot to see in this world. How would a double rainbow look with four eyes? Pretty badass, I bet. But eyeglass wearers have actual issues. The sun completely discriminates against eyeglasses. You could break down and wear transition lenses, but you can’t safely do that unless you are over 50 or Ron Rivera. Eyeglasses break. That’s a problem. They can be scratched or the lenses can pop out. They can be lost. So there are some issues. But Buddy Holly made coolness less of an issue. And now eyeglasses are thriving like never before. People wear fake ones now just as a fashion statement. And lot of that goes back to a big rock star who rocked the eyewear. Wee-oo, I look just like Buddy Holly. And aint nothing wrong with that.

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