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...city survives labor turmoil and Presley mourners...
Memphis, summer 1978. A steamy day in the pleasant but tired Southern town, nestled in a bend of the Mississippi, that gave America the blues, W.C. Handy and Beale Street, Holiday Inns and Piggly Wiggly supermarkets. And Elvis Presley...
...mood has been bizarre all week long as the Presley fans arrive in a city that seems to be coming apart. Trash is lying in the streets because sanitation workers stay off for a day, honoring police picket lines. Most of the firemen are also out on strike, and both they and the police are ignoring court orders to return to work. The schools are scheduled to open later in the week, but the teachers say they will not cross any picket lines. The mayor has called out the National Guard, costing the city $70,000 a day. Armed with...
...where the family lived. When they stop at Humes High School, Diane says: "Can't you just imagine a 16-year-old Elvis walking through the doors every day in a pink shirt with those blue eyes?" They can indeed. And they stop at Baptist Memorial Hospital, where Presley was pronounced dead...
...Elvis Presley Boulevard, a wide strip of used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style house. A brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows...