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lauderdale courts
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
The apartment (#328) can be rented by the night for the hardcore fans.
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from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
In September of 1949, the Presley family (Vern, Gladys, and Elvis) moved to apartment #328 of the Lauderdale Courts, a low-income housing project in downtown Memphis. The family paid $35.00 a month in rent.
The shy and reticent Elvis would practice guitar in the basement laundry room, meet and play with other musicians in the Courts, listen to records at the Poplar Tunes record store around the corner, and walk down to nearby Beale Street to receive inspiration.
The Presley family lived at the location until 1952 when they were evicted for exceeding the maximum monthly income for residents. After the eviction, the Presley's moved to a boarding house near the Courts at 698 Saffarans Ave for a couple of months.
view full location details...ayn rand’s grave
from ayn rand posted in literature by crabapple
The Russian-American philosopher and writer Ayn Rand is buried at the Kenisco Cemetery in Valhalla, NY.
Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982 at the age of 77. Among the dignitaries at her funeral was Alan Greenspan; a six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket.
Some of the novels written by Ayn Rand include Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We the Living.
view full location details...penhorn mall
from trailer park boys posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
This is the former location of Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The mall was in decline for a number of years before the Walmart anchor store left in 2007 and the building was demolished some time after the mall closed in 2008.
In season two of Trailer Park Boys, Ricky had a job here briefly as mall security in charge of carts and this is where Bubbles stole those same carts by tossing them down the embankment.
view full location details...parchman penitentiary
from elvis presley, alan lomax posted in music by tacopolis
The Parchman Penitentiary, also known as the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) or more informally the Parchman Farm, is the oldest prison in Mississippi.
In 1933, Alan Lomax and his brother John went to the prison to record prison work songs. Speaking of the people he met and the material he archived, "These people were poetic and musical and they had something terribly important to say."
On June 1, 1938, Elvis's father, Vernon Presley, was imprisoned for forgery in the Parchman Penitentiary.
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