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Tiger46 · 08-16-2016 05:40 PM

If you were alive or old enough to remember?

TigerBill · 08-16-2016 05:47 PM

(08-16-2016 05:40 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: If you were alive or old enough to remember?

Driving south on what is now Germantown Parkway, but back then was a two lane road. About to cross the RR tracks.

**450bench** · 08-16-2016 10:04 PM

I was 12 playing in a baseball tournament in Alabama. Somewhere close to Birmingham I think.

RandyMc · 08-16-2016 10:15 PM

Eating watermelon after a scrimmage game with Ripley High School, listening to car radios.

**tigergreen** · 08-17-2016 10:43 AM

Sitting in the floor of our den playing (I was 3). They reported it on TV & my mom started crying.

AlonsoWDC · 08-17-2016 04:41 PM

I was over ten years from being born.

My mother was a senior at Ole Miss.

Phillip26r · 08-17-2016 04:47 PM

Sitting in the den - converted one car garage - on Sun Circle in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

TiggerFan · 08-18-2016 10:34 AM

Home. Red was no longer working for Elvis but I had kept hoping to go back to Graceland again. That day I came to the reality that it would never happen. Free pinball in the racquetball house was as valuable to me as being there.

snowtiger · 08-18-2016 11:47 AM

I was a 'runaway' in SF. Though I was not a fan, the news made me call home. lol.

tigernole79 · 08-18-2016 01:40 PM

On the floor of our den. I am pretty sure it was during an episode of the Brady Bunch.

Wasn't really old enough to realize what a big deal it was.

dfwtxtiger · 08-18-2016 05:26 PM

I was watching The Guiding Light, my fave soap opera.
I was mad that they interrupted the show.
My mom was working nights, and none of us wanted to go wake her up and tell her.
One of us finally did, remember we we about 12- 16 years old.
We knew how important he was; my mom had every album he made. (Boy, I wish I had those now)
She cried like the world was ending, I have never to this day, have ever seen her cry like that again.

21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha · 08-18-2016 07:42 PM

Ironically, I was driving down Madison after working downtown and I was just outside Baptist Hospital when the news came on the radio that Elvis had been brought into the hospital. I was halfway tempted to go in the hospital and see what was happening, but I just kept on going. In my gut, I knew it was serious. I guess I heard he died when I got home.

ohmboy · 08-18-2016 11:48 PM

Driving my 68 work van west on hwy 179 (before it was hwy 179) between jobs. Heard it on a 8 track/FM combo mounted upside down tuned to FM100.

Never dreamed the allure would continue as long as it has. Not the music , but the whole going to Graceland pilgrimage deal.

KRB · 08-21-2016 12:13 AM

I was driving under the airport runway on Winchester. When they announced it on the radio.

Tiger46 · 08-22-2016 05:52 PM

(08-21-2016 12:13 AM)KRB Wrote: I was driving under the airport runway on Winchester. When they announced it on the radio.

They were firing up the Lisa Marie about the time you were driving by there.

mapdude · 08-26-2016 09:42 PM

I was on the toilet when my wife came and shouted through the door....I felt kinda weird...

~~tiger2000~~ · 08-30-2016 04:10 PM

I was a gleam in my daddy's eye

SayWhat? · 08-30-2016 04:59 PM

I was delivering a new 1977 Corvette to my customer. When I arrived at the customer's house they had also just heard and were in shock. I think most everyone at the time was in disbelief. I remember seeing women in cars crying at pretty much every stop light on the way. Like his music or not he had a remarkable voice.

MGR · 08-31-2016 01:57 PM

I was 6 and at home in east Memphis that afternoon. I remember channel 5 breaking in and seeing Mason Granger reporting live.

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