< img src=" https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/6a021512901ac7cf67cd92a6/16:9/w_1280,c_limit/541064193" alt =" "> Elvis Presley is among those icons so permanently etched into the fabric of American popular culture that it seems, almost half a century after his death, as if he will live forever. While Presley also had homes in California, and notoriously lived in Germany throughout his stint in the United States Army, it is Graceland that is most strongly associated with the late artist. The rock and roller’s Memphis house where he lived for twenty years and where he died at the age of 42, Graceland is America’s second-most-visited house, behind the White Home. Every year, an average of 600,000 people flock to the residence turned museum, which opened to the public in 1982.
Today, the museum, which incorporates Presley’s gravesite, previous home, and a collection of keepsakes of Presley’s rock-and-roll career, stands as a stirring pointer of one guy’s life, as he grew from a precious kid to poverty-stricken moms and dads to, probably, the most famous male in the world. Below, we’re rounding up images of the legendary musician at his (practically) similarly popular home, and other places he rested his pompadoured head.
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The Presleys at home in Tupelo, around 1945 Hulton Archive/Getty Images History in the making Presley and his parents pose for an image in your home in Tupelo, Mississippi, circa 1945– the year before he received his very first guitar. The future king of rock-and-roll was born close by, in a two-room house constructed by his daddy, grandfather, and uncle on January 8, 1935. That house, now a museum, was repossessed 3 years later, and the household bounced around other homes in the location before moving to Memphis when Presley was 13 years of ages. There, the family resided in Lauderdale Courts, a public housing job.
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