Vernon and Gladys lived in a 2 room shotgun shack, so called for being able to fire one in one door and out the window. The actual structure was likely long gone and a sample of the era has been painted, wallpapered and a porch swing added.
Gladys worked many jobs and is three months pregnant in the workforce photo from the Tupelo Garment Factory.
Tupelo child labour mid 1940s: the world in which Elvis Presley was born.
While living there, Vernon went to jail at the infamous Parchman Prison for altering a cheque – Gladys took young Elvis door to door to get signatures for an early release.
Tupelo also experienced a Tornado, which destroyed most of it.
The First Assembly Church of God, where Elvis learned showmanship.
The school kids who teased the girls: “Elvis likes you.”
Madeline Morgan, the first girl he left behind – Elvis altered his parent’s marriage certificate.
She said they held hands and kissed once, and she never knew: the 1st almost Mrs Elvis:
The family later did a midnight move out of town, drifting across a few states before settling in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elvis would return to perform 2 Homecoming Concerts in 1956 and in 1957.
$10,000 was raised to built an Elvis Presley Youth Centre, which was never built, to Elvis’ disappointment in the 1960s, when he took a group of pals to see what he’d come from.
In the 1970s, his Homecoming Concerts were in Memphis.
The Tupelo Elvis statues.
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