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Elvis First Home 1034 Audubon Drive - Sold on eBay for
$905,100
Elvis Presley bought the four-bedroom, two-bath house at 1034
Audubon Drive in Memphis in 1956 with a down payment of $500.
He lived there for 13 months before moving to Graceland
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Elvis
First Home 1034 Audubon Drive
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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
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.
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