PEP wrote:TCB-FAN wrote:
I'm guessing the occupant happens to be a 90 year old lady with 38 cats, likes to hoard a large collection of used dentures & the photo itself was taken in mid-July.
Actually not. The home is called Graceland Two, located in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
The pink is gone now and the home has since been painted white.
Still just the same, even tho the idea of Graceland is here as well. As anyone can
plainly see, it looks nothing like Graceland in reality.
Here is some information on the guy who owns it.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11097
PEP
The guy that owned it is now deceased. His name was Paul McCloud and he was a definitive Elvis fanatic: He would have three televisions on constantly to catch anything and everything about Elvis that he could.
However, all of this fanaticism caused his son to disown himself from the family and he ran off. Paul wound up shooting a man at point-blank range and hitting him right in the heart because Paul thought that he wanted steal something from him when, in reality, there wasn't much in that house worth stealing or of any value -except for Paul's vast Elvis collection. The family wanted to auction off some of the stuff (including an original 45rpm recording of Elvis's SUN Records, "That's Alright, Mama)"!
I only read about this recently while on another site. I believe that the remaining family members may have gone to court about this but, I'm not sure what really happened.
As far as other Graceland-like homes, there is a friend of mine who lives in town here and she is a HUGE Elvis fan - she's such a super fan that when she was in a near-fatal car accident, her husband promised her that if she made it through the accident and got healthy, he would build her a replica of Graceland!
Well, she did recover completely and he did build her that house he promised her! It's called, Graceland East", and sits on a hill outside of highway 61 near Murphy, NC where I live. I'm planning on going there in the future if nothing happens and my health holds up.
Sadly, I recently lost a dear friend who was also a friend to this lady who has the Graceland replica. Her name was Sharon Hunsucker and she was a much bigger fan than myself, having been born back before Elvis first became a big star in 1956.
She had a vast collection of Elvis memorabilia and her two remaining sisters were discussing letting me have her huge collection of Elvis stuff to take care of. It's been a few weeks since she passed and I haven't heard anything else about the collection. Sometimes no news is good news but sometimes no news can be bad news.....I told Sharon not barely a year ago (while joking with her) that "she ought to will her Elvis collection to me!" not realising that she would actually be gone a year later.
. Her passing has shocked everyone in our little community.
She touched a LOT of lives while here on Earth and I'm definitely going to miss my "Elvis Buddy" (she and her other sister, Diana, were the ones who raised money so that they could take me to Memphis to see Graceland WAY back in 2001.
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"If the songs don't go over, we can do a medley of costumes!" - Elvis Presley (August 10, 1970 backstage in his dressing room before the first show of the August, 10, 1970/September 8, 1970 season in Vegas).