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I was working at the Trane Home Comfort Center in South El Monte, CA. Door to door sales. We, and a bunch of pot smoking derelicts were on the way out to the day's territory to canvas, Covina, when the news came over the radio in a Van. I did my first street and as I was sitting on a corner waiting to be picked up, a woman drove up in her car. She sat in it for while. She got out and saw me and said......"Did you know Elvis died?" I said, yes.....I heard. Then she said, what a shame and walked in.
1 posted on 08/16/2019 5:41:12 AM PDT by vespa300
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He is still dead. And I’m right here.


2 posted on 08/16/2019 5:42:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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I was on the toilet when the news broke. Guess I am luckier than Elvis.


3 posted on 08/16/2019 5:42:57 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Twitter, Facebook and New York City do not represent the real world.)
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Elvis isn’t dead; he’s in witness protection.


4 posted on 08/16/2019 5:43:07 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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I was working on a US flag merchant ship, “The Alex Stepens,” owned by the Waterman Steamship Company out of Mobile, Alabama. We were either in Bombay, India or heading back to New Orleans.


5 posted on 08/16/2019 5:43:54 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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I was 8 years old and riding in the very back of a 1969 Ford Country Squire Station wagon going to get dropped off at my cousin’s place for one last week of summer fun before returning to school. The announcement came on the car radio that Elvis was dead.


6 posted on 08/16/2019 5:45:47 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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I was at the old Myrtle Square Mall in Myrtle Beach. I was seven. That being said I swear I saw him at the Circle K this morning.


7 posted on 08/16/2019 5:47:03 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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I have no idea where I was when Elvis died. I remember where I was when JFK, both parents and 2 of 3 of my dead brothers passed. I almost forgot. I remember where I was when John Lennon was murdered.


8 posted on 08/16/2019 5:48:04 AM PDT by be-baw
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I was working a summer job at a bank in Closter, NJ when a friend of mine pulled up to the drive thru window, she told me Elvis was dead.


9 posted on 08/16/2019 5:48:39 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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I was on the toilet


10 posted on 08/16/2019 5:49:12 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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Was working at Pop Tunes music store just down the street from Graceland.


13 posted on 08/16/2019 5:51:09 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Trust Republicans Under My Presindency)
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I was an oilfield contractor and was just starting a small manufacturing business in south Houston.


14 posted on 08/16/2019 5:52:20 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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42 years ago and he was 42 when he died.


15 posted on 08/16/2019 5:52:47 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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This is true: I was on the road playing rock and roll, and our singer came in (he thought very highly of Elvis) and was frantic. “Elvis is dead.”


16 posted on 08/16/2019 5:53:25 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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I was riding around getting wasted with my friend Doyle.

We heard it in the radio then went to my house and it was breaking on the tv news.

We sparked up a doobie in his honor.


17 posted on 08/16/2019 5:54:14 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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In my car, driving to A&S department store. All the radio stations were playing Elvis songs and I wondered if he died. Sure enough.


19 posted on 08/16/2019 5:56:04 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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Having wet dreams of Olivia Newton John.


20 posted on 08/16/2019 5:56:13 AM PDT by fruser1
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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.


21 posted on 08/16/2019 5:56:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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I had just gotten married two months before and was looking for a job in Central Florida. Still married to the same lovely woman.


23 posted on 08/16/2019 5:59:37 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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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.


24 posted on 08/16/2019 5:59:57 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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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.

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25 posted on 08/16/2019 5:59:59 AM PDT by foreverfree
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