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Up until recently, I never really got into Elvis much. I ve been through Memphis a few times riding through on my Harley, but never stopped at Graceland or Sun Studio. Right before I moved to Denmark, I had the opportunity to go to Memphis with the intention of seeing both and I did. Graceland wasn't as big as I thought it would be, but for a 22 year old Elvis it was plenty big. I am glad I went.
The truth is that Elvis is as 'American' as apple pie and hotdogs, and even though it didn't end well for him he was a very talented guy. After seeing some of his clothes and how Gracelad was decorated, I can honestly say that me and him had nothing in common as far as tastes in those two departments.
Since there is such a large retired LE presence here from around the country that could have interacted with Elvis in the late 60's- mid 70's, I am curious if any of you have any stories to share about Elvis. Its a well known fact that Mr. Presley had a collection of badges along with a very cherished badge from Richard Nixon.
I'd like to hear any true Elvis stories, thanks in advance.
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I live in Memphis. In the 70s it wasn't unusual to see Elvis on his Harley or his Stutz Bearcat at 3am. on the interstate. Usually you saw his taillights. He would open it up because he knew there wasn't a cop that would give him a ticket.

My dad did some hand lettering for a Bible his dad Vernon was giving him in the 60s. Met him but never knew if Elvis was in the Lincoln Limo Vernon got out of. That Lincoln was so long you could land planes on it.

Sam Phillips, the guy that owned Sun Records and discovered Elvis was very approachable. He sat down right next to my wife and I at a local Chinese Restaurant a year or so before he died. I didn't want to disturb him but I told my wife who he was. Well she got his autograph and talked with him for five or ten minutes. I asked her if she realized the major part he played in the history of the world. It kind of left her speechless which for my wife is really something.

Everyone my age or older that lived in Memphis before he died has an Elvis story.
 
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I went to an auto show in Mt. Vernon, TX last year and a guy had Elvis’s 1951 Ford on display. He bought the car from the Presley estate shortly after Elvis died. He had a lot of documentation and photos. The car is in original condition, never restored. This is the ’51 Ford that Elvis toured in along with Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis before all three became famous. The car made a few trips to gigs in East Texas during those early years.


 
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sheepdawg, before we moved to north ms, i lived in whitehaven & went to church with vernon.

my dad was a patrolman in whitehaven, & often saw elvis out & about.. said elvis would always roll the windows down & wave at them :)
 
Saw him perform twice - once early on in Memphis and once later on in Vegas.
Was Lined up in the peon line in Vegas- I look over at the VIP line.
I say- there's Roger Miller.
My wife looks at the tux, horn rim glasses. No it's not!
It was Roger!
Two IH Dealer buddies of mine down in Hernando, MS sold Elvis 2 tractors.
 
Back in the mid-1950s, when I was in junior high in San Diego, a student at my school who had recently broken her arm attended an Elvis concert. He noticed her cast, and autographed it. A news photographer shot him signing it, and the photo appeared in newspapers nationwide. She got several letters from hysterical teenage girls asking her to cut off her arm and send it to them.

After this performance, the San Diego police chief banned Elvis because his gyrations were apparently too scandalous for the delicate sensitivities of the citizens of a large Navy town bordering Tijuana.
 
Smith357 said:
I once ate a peanut butter and banana sandwich, mmmm nom nom nom. :)
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Must be a down South thing!
Ate them back then, sometimes eat one now.
They are good! I don't mash that nana, I slice it.
But I don't fry them!
I never actually heard of that until Elvis' cook wrote her book.
 
swsig said:
Back in the mid-1950s, when I was in junior high in San Diego, a student at my school who had recently broken her arm attended an Elvis concert. He noticed her cast, and autographed it. A news photographer shot him signing it, and the photo appeared in newspapers nationwide. She got several letters from hysterical teenage girls asking her to cut off her arm and send it to them.

After this performance, the San Diego police chief banned Elvis because his gyrations were apparently too scandalous for the delicate sensitivities of the citizens of a large Navy town bordering Tijuana.
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I get the irony ;-)
 
I saw Elvis here just yesterday. He'd lost some weight, but still looked pretty dead to me.

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When I was 13 Elvis and his crowd showed up at a BBQ joint I was a curb hop at in Hattiesburg.Ms. It was closing time and the owner told us to stay and wait on them. They came in and we locked the doors. I got tipped $50.00, more money than I'd ever seen, and we stayed to around midnight. I wish I had gotten an autograph. He was a great customer.
 
You can say lot about the KING, but he was true performer and never herd anything say bad things about him.
I saw him stationed in Hawaii with his special Aloha from Hawaii, never was a fan of his, but the next day I bought albums of all his records, and became a fan. I still have those albums today.
There will never be anyone like him, or even close to the music he sang, and the way he sang it.
 
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