2021.002.010 [Telephone, Wall]

Pay telephone from the Surf Ballroom, used by Buddy Holly to call his wife Maria Elena in New York and by Ritchie Valens to call his manager, Bob Keene in Los Angeles on the evening of February 2, 1959. Both men were killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa February 3, 1959. This information was validated and signed by Maria Elena Holly.