⚘️March 25, 1957:
Elvis Presley purchased Graceland at 3764 Highway 51 South. Elvis paid $102,500. Graceland was 10,266 square feet when Elvis purchased it and its 13.8 acres.
May 16, 1957, Elvis’ parents Vernon and Gladys and his grandmother Minnie Mae, moved into Graceland while Elvis was filming “Jailhouse Rock.”
Elvis did not spend his first night at Graceland until June 26, 1957.
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935, to Vernon and Gladys Presley. Born in a two-room house built by his father, grandfather and uncle, Elvis was one of twin brothers born to the Presleys. His brother, Jessie Garon, was stillborn. Elvis grew up in Tupelo surrounded by his extended family including his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Financially, times were hard on Vernon and Gladys, and they had to move out of the house where Elvis was born when he was only a few years old for lack of payment. Vernon and Gladys worked various jobs while in Tupelo and moved several different times during the thirteen years they resided in Mississippi after Elvis’ birth.
In November 1948, Elvis and his parents packed their belongings in a trunk, strapped it to the roof of their 1939 Plymouth, and moved to Memphis in search of a better life economically.
On July 18, 1953, as a gift for his mother, Elvis recorded a couple of tracks at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios.