Apparently, the City of Lubbock doesn't like old landmarks to stand in the way of progress...
They have recently completed the North Overton project successfully demolishing almost 80 years of Lubbock history--just in time for our Centennial in 2009...
I have been discussing this issue with other forum posters here in town and most agree--funny, it is the young ones who don't agree..one poster actually stated "they should tear down more, we don't care about your old crusty memories"...maybe we ARE the only ones who care...because we knew about those places when we were younger Lubbockites...
Now, it seems that another landmark is going to go...The old Tara landmark presently stands at 4th and Slide and may be demolished to make way for yet another road to extend all the way to Loop 289.
I have very vivid memories of this house because when I was very little, my mother had a friend who lived somewhat near this house and we always went by there...taking the long dirt road east away from the house and back to my house across town...I would sit in the back seat and look out the car's rear window....amid the dust clouds from our car, the house would get smaller and smaller and smaller....there was nothing else around except for the lombardy populars for windbreaks and fields and fields of cotton....
This house definitely has 9 lives just like the most lucky of cats...it has been reincarnated as a house, a restaurant, a club, and now a headquarters for a travel center chain.
It has a historic designation so I am wondering IF they can tear it down.
Perhaps, this will enable it to begin its 9th life..I would hate to nothing to see to remind me of those afternoons car rides with my mother.
