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We were standing by Elvis Presley’s grave.
“Do you remember where you were when you heard he was dead?” I asked, pen poised over my notebook.
Her name was Laura Pomeroy. She was 37, from La Crosse, Wisc., and this was her second visit to Memphis.
“Uh huh,” she nodded. “I was in 11th grade, in Galesville, Wisconsin, […]

Attendance at Elvis Week 1997 broke Graceland’s records with the biggest single-day attendance ever and an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people in town for the week.
Graceland’s creative services director Todd Morgan said attendance at Graceland averaged 4,000 a day during the week with a record 5,150 taking the home tour Saturday, the 20th anniversary of […]

Elvis Week is over but not the memories of some of the week’s Elvis-themed parties, both serious and fun. Here, coverage of four of them.
Delicious memories
Elvis may have eaten his first jelly doughnut at Delicious Foods Bakery.
“Probably,” said Pat Booth, whose family owned the bakery that was across McLean from Snowden Junior High School. “He […]

Larry Geller was Elvis Presley’s hairdresser, spiritual guide, on-staff confidante and the last person to touch him in the coffin when he fixed the King’s hair for the last time.
“That’s why I’m here today,” Geller testified, addressing an audience at the Memphis College of Art. He came prepared to tell secrets. His delivery was dramatic […]

Memphians vividly recall quiet grief, bewilderment
When news services announced that Elvis Presley was dead around 4 p.m. on Aug. 16, 1977, all of Memphis stopped.
Children and teenagers who had been watching reruns of The Andy Griffith Show sat shocked and bleary-eyed as the bulletin flashed across the bottom of the screen.
Hundreds of cars flooded […]

Headsets guide visitors through the King’s domain
As thousands of Elvis Presley fans flocked to Graceland this week during the 20th anniversary of his death, the switch from personal tours of the house to recorded commentary is inspiring both praise and concern that the famous attraction has lost some charm.
After more than a decade of […]

Multitides of forever-faithful lift candles, ‘transend time’
They love him tender. They love him sweet. And because he said so, they haven’t let him go.
They may never.
The faithful began settling the boulevard that bears his name a full 24 hours before the 1997 Elvis Week vigil began Friday night at Graceland.
As many as 30,000 to […]

It’s the most reverential evening of the year for Elvis Presley fans.
Single-file crowds with anywhere from 3,000 people in an off-year to as many as 10,000 or more expected this year make the annual candlelight vigil the true pilgrimage for the Elvis faithful.
Bearing candles lit in honor of the dead King of rock and roll, […]

Elvis fans who claim the King of Rock and Roll really isn’t dead get their wish - sort of - when Presley appears, via video technology, at “Elvis in Concert ‘97.”
The interactive show, which synchronizes filmed footage of Presley with live performers, is the $500,000 finale of Elvis Week and the brainchild of Elvis Presley […]

Well, another anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley is approaching. Fearing the worst, I am writing this column before Aug. 16. I do not know if I will survive this event.
Like other Americans who remember what they were doing when, say, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, I recall exactly what I […]