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Elvis Encore!
phaeton
Published on November 23, 2012
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I have returned. Graceland looks rather small from the outside but it is really quite large. I left you in the room at the bottom of the stairs, so I will pick it up right where I left you. We weren't allowed to take any flash pictures inside of the house but everything was pretty well lit up. There was an awful lot of things to view in this room so it took a while to get through it all.
The next room featured some of his wardrobe in his long and distinguished movie career. Growing up with Elvis a person just does not recall the huge amount of films that he made. I must have seen every one of them. There was his white jumpsuit that he got married in from the movie Blue Hawaii, to his costumes in "Jailhouse Rock" to "King Creole" that was filmed in New Orleans, and his robe in "Kid Galahad".
On the opposite wall there were many cancelled cheques from his generous donations to a very wide range of charities, many of them $1,000 or more. Elvis was well known throughout Memphis as a philanthropist. Moving through this room we proceeded up the stairs and out into the backyard. There was a small building in the back that could have possibly served as a blacksmith shop. Elvis used this building as a shooting range as he possessed a number of handguns.
Next there was a weight room where he liked to work out. Included in his weight room was a great looking Pinball Machine. That took me back to the misspent days of my youth. :-p
Exiting this building and off to one side we were able to view a small pasture that housed the offspring of his horses. I assumed that they were the offspring as they seemed quite young, they were great looking horses chestnut in colour.
There was a swimming pool to one side and beside the pool was the last resting place of his Mother, Father, and his Grandmother Minnie Mae, his brother Jessie and of course the King himself.
There was so much to see on this tour of Graceland that I am sure that I have forgotten half of it. From the graveside we moved to the front of the house where we boarded the trolley to be ferried back across the road. Upon arriving there were people waiting for you to sell you the picture they took of you at the start of the tour. $27.00, sorry folks not this time. We are happy with the ones from our first visit. Think they were $19.00 at the time.
We boarded our bus and headed for our hotel for the evening. Another tiring day. Slept like a baby!
This pretty much took care of our tour as this last day was mostly travel time. Heading for Indianapolis and a farewell dinner consisting of Fried chicken with all the trimmings. I took the opportunity to thank our bus driver Hartley and our tour director Dave on behalf of the group for the great times they provided and the care that they had shown us.
Early next morning we boarded the bus after breakfast and eventually arrived at the Detroit/Windsor border crossing. There we visited the duty free store and we were allowed $800.00 of purchases to bring home with us. To show the differences between Canadian customs and the American customs we were passed through in a very short time.
We left the bus in Chatham, ON and our shuttle driver Ted took us right to our door. He even carried our luggage upstairs for us. All in all it was a great trip. We truly enjoyed it. I would ;like to thank you all for allowing me to share this time with you. It is greatly appreciated. Peter
The next room featured some of his wardrobe in his long and distinguished movie career. Growing up with Elvis a person just does not recall the huge amount of films that he made. I must have seen every one of them. There was his white jumpsuit that he got married in from the movie Blue Hawaii, to his costumes in "Jailhouse Rock" to "King Creole" that was filmed in New Orleans, and his robe in "Kid Galahad".
On the opposite wall there were many cancelled cheques from his generous donations to a very wide range of charities, many of them $1,000 or more. Elvis was well known throughout Memphis as a philanthropist. Moving through this room we proceeded up the stairs and out into the backyard. There was a small building in the back that could have possibly served as a blacksmith shop. Elvis used this building as a shooting range as he possessed a number of handguns.
Next there was a weight room where he liked to work out. Included in his weight room was a great looking Pinball Machine. That took me back to the misspent days of my youth. :-p
Exiting this building and off to one side we were able to view a small pasture that housed the offspring of his horses. I assumed that they were the offspring as they seemed quite young, they were great looking horses chestnut in colour.
There was a swimming pool to one side and beside the pool was the last resting place of his Mother, Father, and his Grandmother Minnie Mae, his brother Jessie and of course the King himself.
There was so much to see on this tour of Graceland that I am sure that I have forgotten half of it. From the graveside we moved to the front of the house where we boarded the trolley to be ferried back across the road. Upon arriving there were people waiting for you to sell you the picture they took of you at the start of the tour. $27.00, sorry folks not this time. We are happy with the ones from our first visit. Think they were $19.00 at the time.
We boarded our bus and headed for our hotel for the evening. Another tiring day. Slept like a baby!
This pretty much took care of our tour as this last day was mostly travel time. Heading for Indianapolis and a farewell dinner consisting of Fried chicken with all the trimmings. I took the opportunity to thank our bus driver Hartley and our tour director Dave on behalf of the group for the great times they provided and the care that they had shown us.
Early next morning we boarded the bus after breakfast and eventually arrived at the Detroit/Windsor border crossing. There we visited the duty free store and we were allowed $800.00 of purchases to bring home with us. To show the differences between Canadian customs and the American customs we were passed through in a very short time.
We left the bus in Chatham, ON and our shuttle driver Ted took us right to our door. He even carried our luggage upstairs for us. All in all it was a great trip. We truly enjoyed it. I would ;like to thank you all for allowing me to share this time with you. It is greatly appreciated. Peter
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