Elvis Presley Blvd. Visitors Center
I got photos of this visitors center back in 2012, but never posted them for whatever reason. It was built in 2004 to greet folks coming off I-55 and onto Elvis Presley Blvd -- very nicely done little place, though I have to confess I've never been it! Not much history to go on in the assesor's records here either, but this being a corner lot, a safe guess would be an old gas station once stood here. Per that same, very pixelated 1971 aerial photo in the records, that appears to be the case, but what type of gas station is hard to determine (a wild guess is it was another Exxon). Something different was here by the 1981 photo however, but with that aerial's quality being not much better than the '71 photo, it's anybody's guess as to what that was also!
I left the photo cropped as such so we can see a couple more buildings (to the left of the visitors center) not covered in the series. Those are just a couple of hotels and nightclubs for the most part.
Elvis Presley Blvd. Visitors Center
I got photos of this visitors center back in 2012, but never posted them for whatever reason. It was built in 2004 to greet folks coming off I-55 and onto Elvis Presley Blvd -- very nicely done little place, though I have to confess I've never been it! Not much history to go on in the assesor's records here either, but this being a corner lot, a safe guess would be an old gas station once stood here. Per that same, very pixelated 1971 aerial photo in the records, that appears to be the case, but what type of gas station is hard to determine (a wild guess is it was another Exxon). Something different was here by the 1981 photo however, but with that aerial's quality being not much better than the '71 photo, it's anybody's guess as to what that was also!
I left the photo cropped as such so we can see a couple more buildings (to the left of the visitors center) not covered in the series. Those are just a couple of hotels and nightclubs for the most part.