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...Elvis did, and does, and so I went as a reporter on the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour, courtesy of a Connecticut newspaper that could just as well have used wire reports from Memphis, but for some reason wanted a man on the spot. I boarded the bus with a typewriter in one hand and a bag in the other, to be greeted by the trip leader, a 45-year-old widow who hadn't left western Massachusetts since the early '60s. She invited me to sit down next to her. I obliged, and as the bus pulled...
...Graceland. The policemen and firemen were out on strike, and the National Guard was patrolling the city in jeeps. In Washington, the House Assassinations Committee was hearing testimony on the 1968 slaying in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Into Memphis on August 15 rode the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour out of Connecticut and western Massachusetts, uninterested in anything but the visiting hours at Graceland and the lengths of the waiting lines there. The leader of the policemen's union had threatened to shut the city down in the contract dispute...
...mansion, near his kidney-shaped swimming pool. Along the line volunteers from a county rescue team patrolled, watching for victims of heat exhaustion. And hawkers patrolled, too, selling everything from autographed pictures of The King to silk scarves he wore to color film. Across the street--Elvis Presley Boulevard--there was still more. The shops that have sprung up in the past year sell everything from Elvis wastebaskets to Elvis swizzle sticks to ceramic guitars with Elvis's picture on them. And they do a brisk business, like the local florists, who were bringing in van after van of bouquets...
...they emerged, and there they were: Duke O'Connell as Jim Morrison of The Doors, Mona Caywood-Moore as Janis Joplin, Marc Hazebrouck as Jim Croce, Jesse Bolt as Elvis Presley, and wonder of wonders, Bolt's girlfriend Erin Rhyne as a female Elvis Presley...
...corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...