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GRACEI_070125_064.JPG: Yep. That's a glimpse of the "Jungle Room". You'll see more of it later.
GRACEI_070125_230.JPG: Scale model of Elvis' birthplace in Tupelo, MS
GRACEI_070125_239.JPG: Elvis' Birthplace:
This is a scale model of the tiny "shotgun" house in Tupelo, MS where Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935. Here the Presleys lived in a simple, working class lifestyle. In search of a better life, the Presleys moved from Tupelo, MS to Memphis, TN in 1948.
GRACEI_070125_242.JPG: The Presley's Wedding:
Elvis Aaron Presley married Priscilla Ann Beaulieu on May 1, 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. After their Palm Springs honeymoon, the couple returned here to Memphis and had a second wedding reception for those friends and family who could not make it to Vegas. The following year on February 1, 1968 their daughter, Lisa Marie was born.
Here we have the Presley's original wedding attire and items from Lisa's nursery.
GRACEI_070125_245.JPG: The Presleys wedding outfits
GRACEI_070125_260.JPG: White fur bed from Elvis' wardrobe room
GRACEI_070125_322.JPG: Elvis' favorite handgun, a turquoise handled Colt 45
GRACEI_070125_379.JPG: Vernon's office
GRACEI_070125_404.JPG: Smokehouse:
This building was part of Graceland Farms well before Elvis owned Graceland. It was possibly a pump house that was later used by Vernon as a smokehouse to cure meat. One time Elvis decided that it would make a good firing range and that's what it was for a short period of time. Other than that it was used as a storage area by Elvis and his family.
GRACEI_070125_580.JPG: Elvis was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958. Despite the fact that he was technically out of the public eye for almost two years, his career was kept alive thanks to Col. Parker's savvy marketing promotions. The time he spent in the Army brought many changes to Elvis' life. In 1958, his mother Gladys passed away, and in late 1959 he met Priscilla Beaulieu, who would later become his wife.
GRACEI_070125_600.JPG: From his return to the states in 1960 until 1969, Elvis' career revolved mainly around the films he was making. He starred in 31 feature films. All were sure fire hits at the box office despite the sometimes formulaic storylines. Elvis' charisma and talent were all that each movie needed. He also starred in two successfull [sic] theatrically released concert documentaries.
GRACEI_070125_660.JPG: Elvis' return to live performances continued with his 1969 engagement at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. His impact went beyond all expectations. "Elvis, That's The Way It Is" was a documentary filmed during various rehearsals and concert performances at the International in 1970. Elvis went on to break attendance records not only in Las Vegas, but also in Houston and New York.
GRACEI_070125_669.JPG: Receiving the U.S. Jaycees award as "One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation" for 1970 was one of the highlights of Elvis' career. It was the only awards ceremony that he ever attended. The "touching hands" award is so worn due to the fact that Elvis carried it with him whenever he went on tour.
GRACEI_070125_721.JPG: Racquetball Building:
Elvis took up racquetball in the early 1970s and enjoyed the sport so much that he decided to have his own court built. The personal sports complex, complete with a weight training area on the ground floor, full size racquetball court and a Jacuzzi and dressing rooms upstairs, was completed in 1975. Elvis spent approximately $200,000 on the building and took so much pride in the effort that he personally supervised the construction.
GRACEI_070125_723.JPG: Racquetball building
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Wikipedia Description: Graceland
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Graceland is the name of the large white-columned estate that once belonged to Elvis Presley, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It currently serves as a museum that was opened to the public in 1982, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991.
On March 27, 2006, Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior, designated Graceland a National Historic Landmark—joining the White House, the Alamo, Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Dealey Plaza, and Mount Vernon. However, as there are almost 2,500 sites in the United States sharing this designation, the elevation, according to John Harris, "falls slightly short", as such legendary sites also include "the Frederick Bagg Bonanza Farm in North Dakota and Kentucky's Louisville Water Company Pumping Station."
Presley and his family at Graceland:
Presley purchased Graceland in early 1957 after moving out of a Memphis house located at 1034 Audubon Drive because of privacy and security concerns. He lived there for some time together with his father Vernon Presley and his mother Gladys. After his mother died in 1958, and Vernon married Dee Stanley in 1960, the couple lived there for a time. Wife-to-be Priscilla Beaulieu also lived at Graceland for five years before she and Elvis married. Presley had brought Priscilla, then a teen who had stayed for some time in Germany as the stepdaughter of a United States Air Force officer, back to the United States to live at Graceland, "ostensibly under the chaperoning protection of his father Vernon and his new wife Dee." After their marriage in Las Vegas on February 1, 1967, Priscilla lived in Graceland five more years until she separated from Elvis in late 1972.
According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Elvis "the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gra ...More...
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it.
Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler.
Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust")..
Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.