Twenty-seven years ago we lost a King. But we gained a ghost. And he walks among us today. And not just “Ten feet off of Beale.”
Playhouse on the Square, the Zippin’ Pippin and the Mid-South Coliseum are all haunted by Elvis Presley.
A person who knew him quite well, his daughter Lisa Marie, once said that […]
June Robertson selected her new Downtown apartment for the view.
Overlooking a parking lot, she can steal glimpses of a window with its curtains drawn - the teenage home of Elvis Presley.
Before moving to Uptown Square (formerly known as Lauderdale Courts), she requested an apartment next to the former rock legend’s old home. But so far […]
Midtown and Downtown had numerous Elvis connections - this list points out some of the highlights:
Lauderdale Courts, a public housing complex in Downtown Memphis, was home to the Presley family in the late 1940s to early 1950s.
Elvis performed his first large concert appearance at the Overton Park Shell on Friday, July 30, 1954. The headliner […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
In April 1957, Sepia magazine, a white-owned sensationalist monthly for black readers, took up a discussion as controversial then as it is today: the case of a white kid who adopted black music and became the most successful artist of his time.
The headline: “HOW NEGROES FEEL ABOUT ELVIS.”
It begins:
“As one of the most-debated subjects in […]
Elvis began his freshman year in September 1949 at Humes High School, now the site of Humes Middle School. He walked 10 blocks down Jackson every day to get to school from Lauderdale Courts.
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