LUBBOCK -- The city's life-size Buddy Holly statue started its first tour in decades Friday.
Cranes moved the bronze statue off its pedestal and workers shipped it off for restoration before the statue is restored to a new home in the Depot District this year.
Steve Teeters of Texas Bronze will clean and store the 30-year-old statue, said Randy Truesdale, Lubbock's director of parks and recreation.
Bids should come back this week on plans to build the statue's new home: the Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Pocket Park, across from a museum dedicated to the iconic rocker at 19th Street and Crickets Avenue.
City officials hope that installing the statue and the West Texas Walk of Fame in the new park will make sightseeing easier for Holly tourists who travel there from around the world.
Lubbock hopes to finish the park by early winter.
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