Posted on 10/30/2023 12:29:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
She’s All Groomed Up.
I think everything about Elvis has been done. Why don’t the Hollowoodies start doing some of this crap about the gloriously, peaceful lives lived by black rappers? The patron saints of loud noise and psychobabble.
Not an Elvis fan particularly, but I recognize that he had talent, that was badly mismanaged. Generally, could care less. Recently I was in a Zoom meeting with a client - FedEx and during a very boring segment I took to Google-earthing the airport in Memphis, the FedEx HQ, and the surrounding area to the west and there is Graceland. Switch to the street view and see what a trashy area it is located in. The estate itself looks rough, but you can as the problem was that Elvis didn’t buy enough land to control the areas surrounding Graceland. On the Graceland property itself there is the house and a lot of adjoining buildings that look like corrugated metal pole barns. He may have been a lot of things, but he was no real estate developer.
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I’m pretty sure that Pricilla would agree to this day... That Elvis was the best thing that every happened to her.
Not an Elvis fan particularly, but I recognize that he had talent that was badly mismanaged. Generally, I could care less. Recently I was in a Zoom meeting with a client - FedEx and during a very boring segment I took to Google-earthing the airport in Memphis, the FedEx HQ, and the surrounding area to the west and there is Graceland. Switch to the street view and see what a trashy area it is located in. The estate itself looks rough, but you can as the problem was that Elvis didn’t buy enough land to control the areas surrounding Graceland. On the Graceland property itself there is the house and a lot of adjoining buildings that look like corrugated metal pole barns. He may have been a lot of things, but he was no real estate developer.
This portrayal of the couple sounds as though it would have made for an interesting biography in book form.
I mean BOOK-book, not just in a Kindle format.
I just finished an authorized bio of Elizabeth Taylor by
Randy Taraborrelli. Entertaining and enlightening, as much as one could expect for a late superstar.
Randy has also published excellent bio books of Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson all of which I have read, plus some 20 more bio books I have not yet read.
I really liked the Sinatra book. I learned so much about that New York area world, decades before my time.
As I understand it, at the time he bought Graceland, it was a very rural area. He could’ve purchased 400 acres worth of surrounding land, but he wanted only the 13 acres parcel the house sat on.
One of Elvis’ granddaughters; Riley Keough, is now legally in charge of much of the remaining Elvis estate. This is how his daughter, Lisa Marie, wanted it.
If Riley is smart, she will do something similar to what you just described, buy up much of the surrounding area and rebuild it. I’ve heard many folks say they are now afraid to visit Graceland, because it looks like the Ghetto, and the people nearby don’t look trustworthy.
"In the Ghetoooooo!"
Lol!
I thought it was “In a Yugo”?
And they drove with pride...
Priscilla’s book is called Elvis and Me.
I may be taking a peek.
As you know, used books can be found at deep discounts.
That was an all timer.
“Priscilla Presley has told her side of the story over the years, and she was an executive producer on Priscilla, so she clearly approved.”
Then I’ll bet it’s full of falsehoods and lying by omission.
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