Elvis never left

1968

On August 10, 1956, 17-year-old Andrea June Stephens won a Hit Parader magazine contest to "Win a Date with Elvis". While she was promised a romantic dinner, the duo actually ended up grabbing cheeseburgers at a Jacksonville diner, an outing captured by photographer Robert W. Kelley.

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Elvis with fans in Germany... source:

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- Elvis (age 26) in Crystal River, FL, Monday August 7, 1961 | His ninth movie, "Follow that Dream" (United Artists) was filmed in Florida and Hollywood from July 6 to August 28, 1961 and opened nationwide on May 23, 1962.

Candid

RARE, uncropped and restored | Directly from his girlfriend Dixie Locke's personal collection | This snapshot shows a 19-year-old Elvis wearing Argyle socks and sitting on the lawn at Dixie's large family gathering in Memphis, TN in June 1954. This was a farewell party for her sister Juanita who was moving to California to get married. The photo plus accompanying info is to be found in the highly recommended 2-book set Elvis Presley: Prodigy of SUN Records by Erik Lorentzen and Robert van Beek, published in 2022.

Tanja Graf