Where were you 30 years ago today?

[CPort]

Being from Memphis, I can testify that yes it is very hot, we have been in the 105's for days. Actual temps, heat index is so high we quit telling anyone.

I was living in East Tennessee at the time and just could not believe the news. A dear friend was his personal nurse whenever he was at Baptist Hospital and was there that day.

She wrote a book about her experiences of knowing him and what a kind, generous person he was. He gave her a cadillac and she told him she had a very good small car and that she really did not need the cadillac and he said, "what do you need?'

She stated, not anything really but my church could use a nice piano. Well Elvis went out and bought the most expensvie baby grand piano you could ever imagine. That was just the way he was.

Linda Thompson, one of his steady girl friends, lived across the hall from me in College in Memphis. I can remember being in college and girls hearing he was in town and would go stand at the gates of Graceland, hopeing he would stop and say hello.

When Elvis bought Graceland it was very much an upscale neighborhood, sadly that is not the case today.

Neat story you have. He did a couple of benefit concerts here in Jackson back in '75 for McComb tornado victims. I wasn't even a fan, but took my aunt and some cousins. He had it though, he rocked the house.

 

[audie]

i was at my grandparents and me and two of my friends were playing charlie's angels (of course i was kelly) and we were at a neighbor lady's house in her yard and she came out on the porch and told us the news. she was practically hysterical, she idolized and adored elvis !

 

[yippie]

Check this out -

http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/16/vi...in-the-ghetto/

Make sure your speakers are on.

 

[NotnKansas]

I was not even a glimmer in my parent's eyes yet. In fact - I don't think they where even married. :scratch:

 

[Beach Runner]

I was in Spartanburg then, dreading the beginning of classes (as I am now -- LOL). I'm not young by any means, but thirty years ago, I thought 30 was old, so 42 seemed ancient to me. So the fact that someone died at 42 didn't shock me.

Elvis wasn't even on my radar screen then -- didn't like him, didn't dislike him, just thought he dressed tackily. Years later I accidentally watched an Elvis movie and realized how gorgeous he was. I grew to have an appreciation for him and his music, even though I can't say I'm a fan. I personally prefer The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, classical music, and hip-hop.

 

[Cil]

I was 22, and a nanny living with an American woman and her daughter at the top of a cliff in Javea, Spain.
I actually did not find out about Elvis' death until a couple days afterwards.
America felt far, far away back then.
Sure I was a hippie, but I had a lot of respect for Elvis Presley's talent back then, and even more these days. He was and remains The King.

 

[Teresa]

I was 22, and a nanny living with an American woman and her daughter at the top of a cliff in Javea, Spain.
I actually did not find out about Elvis' death until a couple days afterwards.
America felt far, far away back then.
Sure I was a hippie, but I had a lot of respect for Elvis Presley's talent back then, and even more these days. He was and remains The King.

amen!

hi Cil!

 

[futurebeachbum]

I was home from my Junior year of college for the summer in Asheville, NC and working as an (intern) manufacturing engineer in a plant (which cured me of ever wanting to be an mfg engineer.)

Elvis was very much in the forefront of every one's attention, because his very next concert was scheduled to happen in Asheville. It was scheduled for the day after he died. I didn't have tickets to it, but everyone I worked with did. (I mostly knew and loved Elvis from growing up with his movies on TV. He always got the girls and was cool in those.)

Many of the men, and all of the women I worked with were heartbroken.