It's Dead Elvis Day Y'all

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HollyGolightly

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HollyGolightly, I have been to Graceland 8 times!
You must let me know the next time you get down this way, please! You're a hardcore fan! I've never been to Graceland - just to the gift shops - I love sending family and friends authentic gifts from Graceland shops. I guess since it's always here I figure I'll get out there one day. Dead Elvis week is great for spotting impersonators, that's always a fun Memphis in August thing to do.

Did you see the Elvis Forever stamp? Just released


And one more thing, have you seen Elvis' grandson?
Hubba hubba
 

danie

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You must let me know the next time you get down this way, please! You're a hardcore fan! I've never been to Graceland - just to the gift shops - I love sending family and friends authentic gifts from Graceland shops. I guess since it's always here I figure I'll get out there one day. Dead Elvis week is great for spotting impersonators, that's always a fun Memphis in August thing to do.

Did you see the Elvis Forever stamp? Just released


And one more thing, have you seen Elvis' grandson?
Hubba hubba
Yes, I will let you know! It's been a while so I'm ready for another trip. The stamp is a beautiful picture, and yes, Elvis's grandson is so much like him! Have you heard In the Ghetto where Lisa Marie sings 'with' her dad? I really like the way she harmonizes with him.
 

HollyGolightly

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Yes, I will let you know! It's been a while so I'm ready for another trip. The stamp is a beautiful picture, and yes, Elvis's grandson is so much like him! Have you heard In the Ghetto where Lisa Marie sings 'with' her dad? I really like the way she harmonizes with him.
Not until just now - that was pretty awesome!
 

PatInTheHat

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HollyGolightly, I have been to Graceland 8 times!
Holy blue suede shoes, Super Bat Girl:cool:!...I been twice back when I played The Mid-South Fair, went and saw his birthplace cruisin' through Tupelo once.
Itty bitty teeny tiny place (pretty big museum out back), Graceland showed how much he loved his Mama.
His birthplace, built by his Daddy, was practically a Graceland walk in closet, cute little, and I mean little, house though...Tupelo, best damn fried okra in the south, and the sweet tea there would stand up to anywheres;)
 

danie

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Holy blue suede shoes, Super Bat Girl:cool:!...I been twice back when I played The Mid-South Fair, went and saw his birthplace cruisin' through Tupelo once.
Itty bitty teeny tiny place (pretty big museum out back), Graceland showed how much he loved his Mama.
His birthplace, built by his Daddy, was practically a Graceland walk in closet, cute little, and I mean little, house though...Tupelo, best damn fried okra in the south, and the sweet tea there would stand up to anywheres;)
I've been to his birthplace too! It was so tiny, so humble.
 

PatInTheHat

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I've been to his birthplace too! It was so tiny, so humble.
Yeah callin' it little was a bit of an overstatement, wuddnit:biggrin2:?
Did you go to the backyard museum?...I didn't, was too low on dough and it was premium priced.
Understood it had a great show costume collection, woulda loved to have seen it, but I had Tupelo to graze through, those Tupelopians really know how to throw down a pretty swell(ing) feedbag:drool:
 

PatInTheHat

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I don't think I did...there was a little chapel in the back i went to where people got married all the time. It was very quaint and lovely.
Huh, might be they nixed the museum thing, not sure but I don't believe it was owned by the estate...house might not have been neither, been so long I can't rightfully recall the stories I was told by the locals...but damn do I ever remember that wunnerfully deeeelicious fried okra, oh my word it was okra madness, ya got it with everything, but then I was there in July, which I believe to be Mississippi's official, 'Shovel Okra Down The Tourists Pieholes', month:biggrin2:..I was totally down with it:thumbs_up:
 

DiO'Bolic

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I have a sheet of these tucked away somewhere.

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I loved Elvis. I was 7 when he died, and I remember my mom and her sisters crying. So many good songs, it's just too hard to pick a favorite.

I just finished reading B.J. Novak's short story collection (called Stories and Other Stories) which is good. One entry is about Elvis. Here's a quote from an NY Times article: "In “Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley,” he explains the secret identity crisis supposedly behind the death of that famous singer and the mysterious sightings of him in the years after. " It's a pretty interesting spin, if you get a chance to read it.
 

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I have been to Graceland twice.. have never visited his birthplace.. maybe I can stop by there next time I'm out that way. Sounds interesting to see.
It ain't much but it's pretty neat.
When I was there, gee whiz it must be twenty years ago, there was a big ol' shade tree stump right near the house.
Now to me for some reason, I found it pretty cool and groovy, I mean sure the tree wasn't there anymore, but I think there being just an old stump in the yard, made me think of Elvis playing there under, probably climbing, that shade tree, right there where I was standin'.