The first thing you notice when entering the inner sanctum of Memphis Police Department Director Larry A. Godwin’s Downtown office on the 12th floor of 201 Poplar is how warm and welcoming the room is.
To help commemorate what would have been the 70th birthday on Jan. 8 of the city’s most famous resident, Godwin talked […]
In collaboration with Elvis Presley Enterprises, executive director of Memphis Heritage June West unveiled the Memphis Heritage calendar for 2005 at the organization’s Downtown offices on South Main.
The calendar represents black-and-white Don Newman images of Memphis that have a direct connection to the life of Elvis.
Images such as the Memphis Public Employment office, where Elvis […]
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 […]
They stood behind blue ribbon strung between metal barriers and watched their early morning vantage disappear behind six MATA buses and a firetruck.
“No, don’t park there, move across the street,” 62-year-old Douglas Hill said as a fire pumper rolled right in front of his sight line.
Hill and his wife, Gail, came from Cullman, Ala., about […]
Elvis purchased Graceland Mansion in March 1957, for $102,500. He put down $10,000 in cash, and got $55,000 in trade for the Audubon house.
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