{"id":61631,"date":"2013-01-14T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=61631"},"modified":"2013-01-15T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:46:05","slug":"graceland-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=61631","title":{"rendered":"Graceland Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe front room<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nGladys’ dresses, hanging in her closet<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nDining room table<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nYou really can’t say that the descriptions of The Jungle Room over-state the case.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nLight switch by the basement stairway. It’s the details that get me.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nIn the TV room. Elvis, I’m terrified of that clown.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nElvis’ turntable and his Mario Lanza record. You can see the Statesmen album peeking out from behind, a gospel group Elvis loved.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nOf all the rooms, I think the kitchen is my favorite. It’s so 1970s. It’s so normal.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nEven the pepper-shaker is branded.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nA glimpse into the Jungle Room from the kitchen, the far-end. Check out the green shag on the ceiling.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe TV room in the basement. Dr. Strangelove<\/i> is one of the things playing on one of the TVs.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe fireplace in the TV room<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nPorcelain monkey in the TV room. Again: I’m terrified.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nDecorations, TV room<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe billiard room, a full view. The folded fabric on the walls and ceiling gives this room the weirdest aspect of all of the rooms. It’s BEAUTIFUL but CRAZY. Also, God help you if you light up a cigarette in here as you play pool. It’s a very small room, crammed with crazy decorations. I love it.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe corner of the billiard room<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nShelf of knick-knacks in the billiard room.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe Jungle Room. Lisa loved that big round chair. The acoustics were so good in this room (shag carpeting on the ceiling helps) that Elvis recorded here at the end, when he was really too sick to leave the house. The Jungle Room Sessions are pretty extraordinary, considering how ill he was. Again: ghosts, everywhere. The walls have soaked up the sounds.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe couch in the Jungle Room. I mean, the mind boggles.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nAllison and I were both obsessed by the absolutely-nothing-special hallway downstairs, coming out of the billiard room. It’s like a hallway in any house in the 1970s, with a cheap nautical print on one wall, wood paneling, and a couple of random doors. Jerry Schilling, when he lived at Graceland, lived in one of those rooms off this hallway. It would flood if there was too much rain, and Elvis would come in to chat and basically have to puddle-jump to get to Jerry. But I said to Allison: “There’s something about that downstairs hallway…” and bless Allison she said, “I know. It was my favorite part of the house.”<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nAt the end of the nothing-special hallway is an open door, leading to a staircase up to the Jungle Room. Just glancing at the door makes you realize you are leaving the land of Nothing Special.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nOn a table in The Jungle Room<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nThe Christmas greeting from Elvis on the front lawn<\/i><\/p>\n

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