25 years ago:
Ranchers drove herds of cattle down what now is 19th Street. Anything south of 34th Street was considered pastureland. And violent sand storms from the Northern Plains made some roads impassable. Welcome to Lubbock, Texas, at the turn of the century.
50 years ago:
Thousands upon thousands of Lubbock and South Plains residents gave every evidence of an enjoyable, safe and sane Fourth of July Saturday.
75 years ago: