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At age 21 - Elvis bought
the 4 bedroom, 3,000-square-foot house at 1034 Audubon Drive with his
early song royalties. Elvis, his parents, Vernon and Gladys and
grandmother lived there for a year before moving to the two-story
colonial house known as Graceland, that Elvis would make famous A month
after moving into the Audubon Drive, "Heartbreak Hotel" hit
No. 1 ultimately ending any privacy Presley had in the neighborhood.
Fans lined the street & police frequently had to be called
In 1956 magazines featured pictures of
girls trying to get into Elvis bedroom and picking through
the grass for souvenirs. The commotion became so intense that Elvis
moved his bedroom to the back of the house. (Elvis signing autographs at
the fence)
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Audubon Drive Patio 2005
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1956 Elvis, DJ Fontana, Scotty
Moore & Bill Black on patio
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Uri Geller bought the Memphis home Elvis lived in before moving to Graceland,
with a winning bid of $905,100 on eBay. "We are unbelievably
pleased. This is a piece of history," said Geller. "We intend
to restore it to its old glory and hopefully one day we might get
approval to turn it into a museum."
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During his time in the
ranch-style Elvis added a swimming pool.
Seen here in his bedroom with its twin beds & angel
wall plaques
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Sellers Mike &
Cindy Hazen, had bought the home 10 years ago, though not from Presley
for about $180,000. Geller original bid of $300,000 last month with two
partners a New York lawyer Pete Gleason and Lisbeth Silvandersson, a
Swedish-born jewelry maker. "As the clock closed
on the bidding Sunday." Geller added "I felt intuitively I got
the price. I was text messaging Gleason and it was exactly 11 on my
mobile phone and suddenly the radio started playing an Elvis song. That
was Elvis telling me we got the house!" Geller met Elvis in Las
Vegas in the 1970s after the Elvis asked him to perform his "spoon
bending" trick for him, he said. Geller has since amassed a large
collection of Presley memorabilia which he plans to display in the home.
Uri Geller
ebay auction fell through
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