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Location: ranson,wva | has anyone been to graceland? my wife is bugging the hell out of me to take her to see graceland. i know where its at,ive been thru memphis several times but ive had no desire to go.
but on the other hand the adamas was a big xmas present...i reckon i could suffer thru it..lol....any input is much abliged..jason |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Elvis is the king!
You should go. |
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Location: ranson,wva | you know stephen,i got her a elvis dvd boxed set for xmas. alot of it is his early days. i liked the young elvis...the old fat pill poppin elvis..well...just wasnt elvis...i think she is gonna take 2 weeks off work so we can go to florida and look for a house to buy. im gonna surprise her with a side trip to memphis....jason |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "ive been thru memphis several times but ive had no desire to go."-- johnny cash 83
Memphis is a dump! Everytime I hear songs like "Walkin' in Memphis", I think; "I know you've never been there, you just heard the name!" The reason why it's called the Delta Blues is cuz the people had THE BLUES!! Memphis is still a ghetto. They (realtors) keep "revitalizing" the old neighborhoods. Buy up old houses, then none of the old residents can afford to live there. Just move the poor folks. |
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Location: North Carolina | Playing "Walkin' in Memphis" is the closest I've gotten. In light of Old Man Arthur's post, that's likely to be it. |
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Location: Scotland | I visited Graceland a couple of years ago. It's a deeply depressing and tacky experience. Also went to Sun Records which was great, and the magnificent Peabody hotel. Apart from that I have to agree with Arthur, Memphis is a dump. We almost got rolled outside a gas station, fortunately my buddy who grew up a few blocks from Beale St saw it coming and got us out of there fast. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I wanna go... just to take a pic of me passed-out on the toilet. |
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Location: SoCal | and that would be different from any other day because.....? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'd be on Elvis' toilet.... |
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Location: GA USA | I have been. I remember that we were taking the tour, and I had to go to the bathroom really bad. I managed to find a bathroom, but it wasn't one we were supposed to use, apparently. It smelled so bad, I was like, "Who died in here?" |
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Location: GA USA | Okay, seriously. I have been, and yes, it was tacky, but I was expecting tacky, so I didn't mind. I found the tour fairly interesting. They give you one of those headsets that you start and stop.
Also went to the Lorraine Hotel.
We found some interesting things to do, but yes, it was a bit of a dump. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jason,
I'm going to Memphis on Friday and will be at Graceland Saturday. Then on to San Antonio. A group of employees from Dollywood a going on a bus tour. :cool:
Pic's a a brief narrative when I get back. |
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Location: USA | we are going to go soon.
other family members have been there and have ranted and raved about it.
my last trek to Nasville,,,it was on the to do's but not enough time...plus it was a few hours away from where we were.
and...Graceland for and Adamas...sounds fair enough to me :cool: |
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Location: Tennessee | I walked through Graceland about a year ago. The impressive part is not the house itself, but getting a sense of the sheer magnitude of Elvis' career. Tacky? Perhaps, but they left the house exactly as it was in 1977 so you get all that fashionable wierdness of the time. Tacky defines the interior of Elvis's plane.
Beale Street is a good place to spend some time ... lots of good music played there. If you like blues. :cool: And barbeque. |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | uh, We can show you Elvis.............come to Vegas. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Just got back from a trip to Memphis and San Antonio
Graceland was interesting the main house was crowded and the rooms were a lot smaller than I had pictured. The many exhibits were interesting. Elvis sure made a lot of music. Beale Street was OK. I'm not really into the blues. Did find a pretty good Country trio. The lead singer sounded a lot like Johnny Cash. They did a lot of the old country songs. Food was great. I do like Nashville better. San Antonio was really great. Stayed on the riverwalk. |
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Location: GA USA | GGG, did you get to see the basement at the Alamo? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
GGG, did you get to see the basement at the Alamo? No. Didn't know they had one. |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | I've been to Memphis a few times and have always had a good time.... The tour of the house is tacky but it's pretty cool all at the same time... If you get to bored you can go down to Mississippi and gamble... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | San Antone is great. Nashvegas is pretty good too. Never been to Memphis. Saw Elvis on a Venice Street once back in 1986... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I met Elvis once.......I think? :confused:
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Wait a minute..didn't i see him working a drive through at burger king?? :eek: |
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Location: Tennessee | I had dinner with him last week.
Beware: Elvis is everywhere. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Having worked with Northwest Airline crews in the past, they had 3 sayings about their airline hubs.
Snow-town = Minneapolis
Mo-town = Detroit
No-town = Memphis
That about sums it up. |
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OT. graceland
