{"id":27376,"date":"2021-04-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27376"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:15","slug":"elvis-presleys-graceland-facts-you-might-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27376","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley&#8217;s Graceland &#8211; Facts You Might Not Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z041721graceland_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" \/><br \/>I like Elvis Presley&#8217;s music and maybe even a few of his movies.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m not what you&#8217;d call an Elvis fanatic, but truth be told, I wouldn&#8217;t mind visiting Graceland.\u00a0 There&#8217;d be something cool to be able to walk around in Elvis&#8217; mansion (now a tourist hot spot) that has been kept like it was when Elvis lived there.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Gutoskey posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/644266\/elvis-presleys-graceland-facts\">9 Rockin\u2019 Facts About Elvis Presley\u2019s Graceland<\/a> and it was a fun read.\u00a0 Before you click over for the full story, here are my three favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ELVIS BOUGHT GRACELAND WHEN HE WAS ONLY 22 YEARS OLD.\u00a0<\/strong> (Elvis paid $102,500.00 for the mansion and almost 14 acres of land.\u00a0 $102,500 in 1957 dollars equals $950,127.58 in 2021.\u00a0 That shows you how popular and how much dough Elvis was bringing in at such an early stage in his career.\u00a0 &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GRACELAND&#8217;S JUNGLE ROOM DOUBLED AS A RECORDING STUDIO.<\/strong>\u00a0 (This is probably the most famous room in the mansion.\u00a0 Elvis recorded his second to last studio album in the Jungle Room.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to know that John Cougar Mellencamp, Kid Rock, and Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis&#8217; daughter) also recorded albums in the Jungle Room. &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ELVIS KEPT GRACELAND&#8217;S KITCHEN STOCKED WITH VERY SPECIFIC ITEMS.<\/strong>\u00a0 (A lot has been made over the years of Elvis&#8217; love for fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.\u00a0 Other items that Elvis wanted to always be available included:\u00a0banana pudding, ingredients for meatloaf, fudge cookies, fresh orange juice, ice cream, brownies, shredded coconut, hot dogs, ground round steak, biscuits, and gum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking at that list I&#8217;d\u00a0 say: banana pudding only if it contained Nilla Wafers, meatloaf is a good idea for leftover sandwiches, I&#8217;d substitute chocolate chip for fudge cookies, fresh orange juice is good but with Elvis money I would have a McDonald&#8217;s Iced French Vanilla Coffee maker installed, ice cream is a must and make sure we have Hershey&#8217;s syrup, brownies are a big YES, pass on the shredded coconut, yes to hot dogs (all beef), yes to ground round steak, big YES to biscuits and pass on the gum. &#8211; 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