Monterey High School - Chaparral Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Wanted to ask him if he'd been to the Mall right when it closed and heard the shouting stillness. Wanted to tell him that business is good here because Lubbock's just right, not too big. not too small because Lubbock's wide open for opportunity because Lubbock has the largest producing cotton gin in the world because Lubbock has Litton industries. Texas Instruments. Levi and other giant plants here because Lubbock has a Major state university growing at a rate of 1000 per year. All that's true and great and impressive, but if you get right down to it that's not the best part the really great thing about Lubbock is the people.

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KOPICP l'PIE P£0( PEOPI? «'6bo«V Heard a guy the other day talking about Lubbock. He said all the usual stuff: nothing todo kinda drab—too conservative too hot too dry. He laughed and said “Lubbock, armpit of America laughed again and said. “When you approach the city you can let your foot off the accelerator and the suction will pull you into town. The next day I heard another guy telling a friend about the winter. Said he hated it. The streets crack and split and get all holey. Wanted to show him the good things about West Texas the way the pink creeps into the sky at sunset and hangs around to turn orange and red and a big ole’ yellow moon that can make the night bright enough to read the phone book. Wanted to ask him if he’d ever driven under the dusty, orange lights on University and Indiana, the ones that make you feel warm inside on a crisp and chilly night.

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