Elvis with Knox Phillips, son of @sunrecords founder Sam Phillips, at the Phillips family home in Memphis, Tennessee, around April 1957.
This picture was taken outside of Elvis Presley's House, a private rental residence located at Goethestraße 14 in Bad Nauheim, West Germany.
Elvis lived at this address with his father, grandmother, and close friends from early 1959 until the end of his military deployment in
Clettes Smith Presley was Gladys sister. She married Vernon’s brother Vester.
Note the age when Clettes and Vester married. She was 16. And people give @Cilla_Presley a hard time? 😂
This iconic photograph shows Elvis Presley (left) and B.B. King (right) backstage at the annual WDIA Goodwill Revue charity concert held at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee.
On October 10, 1994, @LisaPresley and @michaeljackson visited @StJudeResearch in Memphis, Tennessee, during a trip to the city.
On October 9, 1999: @LisaPresley and The @VisitGraceland estate partnered with Guernsey’s auction house to host a charity auction at the @MGMGrand in Las Vegas, donating personal Elvis Presley artifacts to help fund the construction of Presley Place.
On April 22, 1957, the “Dillard Doors Company” installed the Music Gate built by owner John Dillard on the driveway to Elvis Presley's Villa @VisitGraceland. The wrought iron gate was designed by Abe Saucer, an artist from Memphis Tennessee.
Candid photo's taken here of a very happy Elvis inspecting Is new gates to is mansion @VisitGraceland and saying thank you to the work men who installed the new music gates candid photo's taken here by Vernon Presley Elvis Presley's Father.
Why is it that I have heard of this.. but never saw it... I want one now!!!
(anyone try this? PLEASE tell me I didn't miss out!!)
Isn’t this adorable? Cuteness overload! These precious little fans are begging the president not to cut Elvis’s hair when he joined the army. 😂
Elvis visiting a Viking movie set with German actress Vera Tschechowa at Bavaria Film Studios on March 4, 1959.
Elvis was on a three-day leave from the U.S. Army and visited the studio with the actress. He is wearing his famous striped jacket.
In December 1957, the Memphis Draft Board announced that Elvis Presley would soon receive his draft notice. Presley told reporters that his service was “a duty I’ve got to fill and I’m going to do it.” Elvis Presley was on active duty from March 1958 - March 1960,
March 27, 1959
The halfway mark of Elvis's Army stint was celebrated with an "Over The Hump" party including Vernon, Red West and others.
Try to guess what Elvis’s mother gave him for his 11th birthday.
It wasn’t actually the gift Elvis wanted at first, but it would go on to shape one of his biggest passions and become closely connected to the Elvis the world would later know.
Looking back, Gladys may have made exactly the right choice that day, even if her young son had something completely different in mind.
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