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1. GRACE_971108_20.JPG: Graceland; Meditation Garden; Visitors Here are some of the visitors to Graceland. You can tell it was a slow day when I went. They say that there are 700,000 visitors a year here. There are actually four bronze markers there, not just his. They include one for his mother (Gladys) and one for his father (Vernon). There's also a marker but not one of the bronze stones for his stillborn twin (Jessie Garon); Elvis grew up an only child. Frankly, I don't remember who the fourth one was for. His dad (Vernon) remarried in July 1960; maybe it's his wife? There wasn't anything for Colonel Parker, the promoter who took half of everything Elvis made, prevented him from touring abroad (except for five Canadian performances in 1957 in Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver) because of secret questionable citizenship problems for Parker, and prevented him from performing before people like the President because the White House wasn't going to pay Parker's standard performance fee. Parker was signed as his manager on August 15 1955 and, despite many poor business decisions, was never replaced. Of course Parker had done well for the King, signing the agreement with RCA on November 20 1955 for the then unprecedented amount of $40,000. Elvis' first gold record, "Heartbreak Hotel", would be recorded for RCA on January 10 1956 and be released on January 27. By the end of 1956, Elvis memorobilia has grossed $22 million in sales. In March 1957, Elvis bought Graceland for himself, his parents, and paternal grandmother. They moved in in April. Gladys Presley died in August 1958, him coming back on emergency leave from the army because of her worsening condition. Elvis met 14-year-old Priscilla in Germany in November 1959 and married her in May 1967. Lisa Marie Presley was born nine months to the day of their marriage. Priscilla and Elvis separated in 1971 and Priscilla moved away with Lisa Marie in 1972. They formally divorced in 1973. Parker and Elvis sold their rights to the existing RCA catalog in 1973. Elvis continued to tour through much of the 1970's, setting a single-performance record of 62,500 people in Pontiac Michigan in 1975.
2. GRACE_971108_22.JPG: Graceland; Meditation Garden; Elvis Grave Another view of his grave. Of course it was drizzling when I was in Memphis. Things like the two white teddy bears in the front of the shot must have been soaked.
3. GRACE_971108_23.JPG: Graceland; Meditation Garden; Monument Here's the Presley family... um, thing, at the Meditation Garden at Graceland. The mansion itself is 15,000 square feet in size but it doesn't really look that large. The front yard, behind the fancy stone wall, is huge but the back yard is relatively small and you can see neighboring houses over the wall.
4. GRACE_971108_24.JPG: Graceland; Meditation Garden; Elvis Grave Here's a close-up of Elvis' grave at Graceland. Behind all the tacky religious stuff is an eternal flame and then the pool which was the centerpiece of the Meditation Garden. Most of the flowers seem to be real. Originally buried in a regular cemetery after he died of self-abuse in 1977, his body was moved here in part for security reasons.
5. GRACE_971108_32.JPG: Graceland; Front Here's the front of the Graceland mansion
6. GRACE_971108_34.JPG: Graceland; Graffiti & House Here's the view of Graceland from the street. It's surprisingly close to the public. The neat thing about this is the graffiti on the wall. You can tell it's been cleaned off regularly but it's all Elvis-oriented and everything that I saw was affectionate toward him.
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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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