Gigi Perreau and Linda Darnell help shovel dirt during the Walk of Fame 
groundbreaking ceremony.

Official groundbreaking for the Hollywood Walk of Fame project took place on
February 8, 1960. Joanne Woodward’s name was one of eight drawn at random,
contrary to popular belief there was no “first” recipient. The original stars were
installed as a continuous project with no individual ceremonies. As of January
25, 2013, the Walk consists of 2,489 stars. Approximately twenty new stars are
added to the Walk each year.

The man credited with the idea for creating a Walk of Fame, was E. M. Stuart,
who served in 1953 as the volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce.

Joanne Woodward and E.M. Stuart

Monument at the crash site, a corn field near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Buddy Holly                         J. P. "The Big Bopper"   Ritchie Valens 
                                              Richardson                

Roger Arthur Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot of
the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed, taking
the lives of Holly, Valens, and Richardson as well
as himself.

A 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 (V-tail) similar to the one flown by
Peterson.

   Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)

Mix appeared in 291 films between 1909 and 1935, all but nine of which were
silent movies. He is credited as having helped define the genre for all cowboy
actors who followed.

1935

The Tom Mix Memorial On Highway 79 Outside of Florence,
Arizona