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 […]
There’s just something about Elvis Presley . . . still.
It’s 25 years since he died, but for months kids, born after his death, have been gobbling up his latest chart-topping single (albeit a remix). Tonight at his vigil, strangers too young to remember him alive will cry in public. And all week, grown men - […]
The Eagle’s Nest, part of the Clearpool entertainment complex, was a regular gig for Elvis, Scotty Moore and Bill Black through 1954. That club burned down 45 years ago. The Americana Club was most recently at that corner.
