Holly’s walk will fade away

Don’t plan on strolling down the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame the next time you’re in Lubbock, Texas, his birthplace. The City Council has rescinded a 1995 resolution that created the name.

The vote came Thursday after Civic Lubbock Inc., a nonprofit group created by the city in 1956, faced a dispute with Holly’s widow, Maria Elena Holly, over payment for the use of his name at the Walk of Fame and Buddy Holly Terrace.

Holly died in 1959. His widow had been seeking a licensing agreement and name usage fees for the two sites. Dan Burns, president of Civic Lubbock, estimated the payment could have been as high as $10,000 a year.

The Walk of Fame and Buddy Holly Terrace will now be known as the West Texas Hall of Fame and West Texas Terrace.