Travels with Elvis - Hardcover

Barth, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 051720309X ISBN 13: 9780517203095

Publisher: Gramercy, 1999

Dozens of black-and-white period photographs accompany an illustrated travel guide that documents the many places where the King of Rock 'n' Roll lived, worked, played, and loved, featuring Elvis's favorite hangouts, a detailed guide to Graceland, and an international fan club directory.

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Review:

Travels with Elvis explores the many places where Elvis sang, ate, and rested his weary head. Retrace the King's steps state by state--from Alabama, where Elvis's father married Dee Stanley, to Wisconsin, where a man called Herbert Baer legally changed his name to Elvis Presley in 1978. Understandably, the most attention is lavished upon Tupelo, Memphis, Graceland, and Nashville. The book surfaces not only established tourist hot spots (his Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace, school and church) but more obscure destinations such as the Tupelo McDonald's where a huge collection of books, records, and statues memorialize the town's most famous resident.

In 1948, the Presleys moved to Memphis--and the book revisits Lansky's Clothing Emporium, where the King shopped as a teen, and Kang Rhee Karate Institute, where he later learned self-defense.

Eighty photographs, fan club addresses, and an official "Elvis Day" map will delight die-hard fans. The King is everywhere--don't leave home without this book. --Naomi Gesinger

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