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08-16-2017, 12:40 AM
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Location: Diez meses en Port St. Lucie, FL; two months in the Dominican Republic
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40 Years Ago Today
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"But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. "
Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well, Part 1 (1969)
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08-16-2017, 12:54 AM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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One of the worst days of my life
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WE ARE THE DUMBEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET!
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08-16-2017, 01:12 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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"You make me feel like I am fun again."
-Robert James Smith, 1989
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08-16-2017, 01:47 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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My parents had tix to see him the following week.
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They don't think it be like it is, but it do. ~O.Gamble
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08-16-2017, 08:34 AM
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Location: Beaverdam Virginia
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I remember exactly what I was doing, I wonder if that is what it was like for most people? For the left coast desert (Desert Hot Springs) it was a strange summer weather wise lots of rain. I was visiting and helping my dad who was doing outside renovations in exchange for rent on a house. I was 16 and most of that summer was spent inside eating because of weather and gained 30 pounds. I believe word of his death came in on the afternoon news.
Last edited by Inner Dirt; 08-16-2017 at 08:38 AM.
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08-16-2017, 09:11 AM
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I was training a couple of cheap NJ breds at Overbrook Farm. A girl groom down the shedrow from me had a radio on and the announcement came across on that. I was never an Elvis fan but I had older siblings who grew up in the 50s and idolized him. My thoughts turned immediately to them and how they would take the news.
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08-16-2017, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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ELVIS AIN'T DEADI saw him at the Piggly Wiggly yesterday.
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08-16-2017, 10:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by incoming
ELVIS AIN'T DEADI saw him at the Piggly Wiggly yesterday.
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At the what?
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They don't think it be like it is, but it do. ~O.Gamble
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08-16-2017, 10:35 AM
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Location: Diez meses en Port St. Lucie, FL; two months in the Dominican Republic
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Piggy Wiggly is a supermarket chain, most of their stores are in small towns in the South.
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"But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. "
Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well, Part 1 (1969)
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08-16-2017, 10:36 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kingfin66
At the what?
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Popular small grocery store chain in some southern states back in the day.
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08-16-2017, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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I was out of college, but still living at home at the time in Indianapolis, where he had given his last concert (at Market Square Arena, which was torn down in 2001) that past June. I still remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. The forty years since encompassed my entire working life. Hardly seems possible.
Last edited by Overlay; 08-16-2017 at 10:45 AM.
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08-16-2017, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
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I was driving to work on the Long Island Expressway, going to short-lived Parr Meadows QH track in Yaphank, when I heard the news.
"Can't Help Falling in Love" the best Elvis song for me.
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08-16-2017, 11:52 AM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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I was in the car with my parents waiting to turn onto the road that lead to our house when news came over the radio that he had died.
My one brush with Elvis:
Elvis waved to me from his limo after a concert at Nassau Coliseum. I was a little kid...and ducked down in my seat when he did it...it was one of those "pope waves" with the thumb, pointer and middle finger raised.
No, we didn't see the show, but my mom used to like to make my dad go to the Coliseum and camp out by where Elvis would exit the building and go into his limo after the show, and then we'd use to follow his car for a while. I guess it was an early form of stalking...LMAO
Sometimes they had a decoy limo and my dad would follow the wrong one, but this one time he had it right... 
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08-16-2017, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Nebraska
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I was in Bronson Missouri, we were in line waiting to get into Silver Dollar City and their employee told us. We were in a 1962 Buick station wagon that had no radio.
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08-16-2017, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Diez meses en Port St. Lucie, FL; two months in the Dominican Republic
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Back then,the networks would have a one minute or so news summary in between some of their prime time shows.My brother and I were watching MASH when the news summary came on and that was the lead headline.
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"But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. "
Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well, Part 1 (1969)
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