VANITY: Elvis is dead 42 years ago today. Where were you?

Me ^ | 8/16/2019 | Jenni Fink

[vespa300]

I was working at the Trane Home Comfort Center in South El Monte, CA. Door to door sales.

[PGR88]

I was a young kid, but had just come home from my grandmother’s funeral. That’s why I can remember both the date so well.

[CondorFlight]

“Was working at Pop Tunes music store just down the street from Graceland.”

What was the reaction of the rest of the people there, in the store and on the streets?

[ChildOfThe60s]

I had just gotten married two months before and was looking for a job in Central Florida. Still married to the same lovely woman.

[PUGACHEV]

I had taken the afternoon off and spent it drinking beer perched on a ledge on Sugarloaf Mountain near Frederick, Maryland. I remember hearing the news while driving back to Virginia with my car seat reclined so far back I could barely see out the windshield.

[foreverfree]

At home in Boothwyn, PA, a few days from my 16th b'day. My mom and I heard the news on 610-WIP Philly on our Zenith stereo.

ff

[BamaBelle]

I was about 3 weeks away from having my twins, so was just hanging out at home...mostly lying down...lol

[foreverfree]

42 years ago and he was 42 when he died.

And by the end of March 2020 he will be dead longer than he was alive, if my math is right.

ff

[babble-on]

Last day of summer camp. We played Hound Dog on the jukebox.

August 16 Deaths:

King of Rock and Roll: Elvis
Queen of Soul: Aretha
King of the Delta Blues: Robert Johnson

[suthener]

“42 years ago and he was 42 when he died.”

Coincidence? I think not.

[mjp]

I was working in Memphis as a dermatologist. I was driving on my way home.

[nevermorelenore]

Happened to be in Memphis ! Traffic backed up all over town, but particularly near Graceland.

[Vigilanteman]

I don't even recall as I do when JFK was shot and 9-11 happened. No dis on Elvis, but I do remember the day when Michael Jackson died because it was the same day that Farrah Fawcett Majors died. I had her poster when I was a hormone challenged teenager.

I was on a flight with my wife to visit her parents in California. The news on one of these was on the monitor when we changed planes; the news on the other when we landed in Ontario, California.

[Spruce]

I was riding shotgun with my dad as we were looking at cars in the northern part of the Twin Cities. I think we had just looked at a ‘75 El Camino when the radio announced it

[bert]

I was sitting in my car waiting for my wife standing outside the fence hoping to get Elvis’s autograph. she came back literally in tears at the news Elvis was dead.

We almost couldn’t drive away because in a near instant it looked like every TV and newspaper truck in the country showed up.

It was so bad, that reporters tapped on the windows to get our reaction to his death and wouldn’t go away.

I will always remember that day asa real nghtmare

[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t know. I was very young, Elvis Presley was just not that big of a deal to people who weren’t even born yet during the 50’s.

[notdownwidems]

In the navy...ship was at PSNS, Bremerton, WA

[pigsmith]

I was just getting off work, sitting in traffic and listening to the radio, wondering why so much Elvis music, when the announcement came.

[G Larry]

Electronics Tech working in the lab at Martin Marietta, VAFB, CA.

[Larry Lucido]

This just in....

[Mr. Mojo]

I was skateboarding in the “grasslands” area at UCLA. But unlike Beto I had an excuse — I was only 13.