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The King makes an appearance at the weekly car show at the Shell Factory in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Mural of Elvis Presley in Chatt.,Tn. Some of the words to "And I Love You So" are written on the wall. This wall is gone now,but I am glad that I took the photo. The mural was part of an art project that encouraged local artists to express themselves before the walls and building on the street were torn down to make room for a new office complex.
HWW!
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This lily is a real beauty to me, and I hope that you all have an amazing day!
Kim
Made Front page Explore! I think that this the first that I have ever had to make front page! Thanks All!
Elvis Presley's iconic Pink Cadillac was a 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special. It set style for the era, was sung about in popular culture, and was copied by others around the world.
The car is now preserved in the Graceland museum, in Memphis, Tennessee.
In early 1955, Elvis bought his first Cadillac, a 1954 Fleetwood Series 60, which was the color pink. The car provided transport for Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys, but after the failure of a brake lining, was destroyed in a roadside fire between Hope and Texarkana, Arkansas, on June 5, 1955.
On July 5, 1955, Elvis purchased a new Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue with a black roof. Having mentioned a Pink Cadillac in the song "Baby, Let's Play House", the first song recorded by Elvis to appear on a national chart which made #5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in July 1955; Elvis had the car repainted by Art, a neighbour on Lamar Street. Art designed a customised pink color for Elvis which he named "Elvis Rose," but the car kept its black roof. Once the car was finished Elvis gave it to his mother Gladys as a gift. Mrs. Gladys Presley never had a driver's license, and Elvis drove the car with the members of his band for most of 1955–1956.
On September 2, 1955, Scotty Moore drove the car into a vehicle which was passing a pick-up truck in Texarkana, Texas, causing $1000 of damage. Having signed his contract with RCA in November 1955, in
March 1956 Elvis had the upholstery replaced, the body retouched and roof painted white. (As can be seen in the book "A Boy from Tupelo", from FTD/2012, in 1955 the Cadillac already has the white roof).
The original pink Cadillac remains on permanent display at Graceland, formerly under a carport for many years, and now resident in the auto museum.
Pluckin’ those midsummer blues, mirages, and blue suede shoes… spines, ribs, shooting some b-roll, in a saguaro keyhole. 🌵🎸🌵
It hit 115 F yesterday and today it cooked a bit cooler at 111 F. The shade of a saguaro drops it again by about ten degrees or so…
I think it’s time to do some more indoor shoots!
#saguarocactus #sonorandesert #elvis #elvispresley #kingpelvis #toyphotography #joecowtoy# #damtoys #coaldog
Only those who fave the image could see Elvis dance on the black top of these luminous cubes. Happy Days to all!
Sul mare luccica
l'astro d'argento.
Placida è l'onda;
prospero è il vento.
Venite all'agile
Barchetta mia!
I am still finding things as I archive my work. Back in 1980 I did a series of caricatures of People Magazine covers to specifically show them to get work. The art director loved them and I did get some great jobs for them. A great magazine to work for.
If I had my life to live over
I know just what I'd like to be
A pampered pet of a rich brunette
Sitting on my mama's knee
Someone to love me, someone to care
Rub-a-dub dubble little fingers through my hair...
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When we lost Fudge, our chocolate lab a year ago, Luna was crushed...she'd search high and low for him...we were all in such bad shape that the three of us jumped into the hoopty and pulled the land yacht all across America...once we returned home, we knew we had to find Lu a buddy and that's when Maya came along...
Elvis Presley as repainted and restyled (given hair by) Noel Cruz of www.ncruz.com/.
You can also shop and display Noel Cruz repaints via RedBubble here: www.redbubble.com/people/stevemckinnis/shop under the collection NOEL CRUZ!
Photos by Noel Cruz
Elvis Presley's statue at the Holey Moley Golf Club. It was standing in front of a brown toilet bowl. Whatever that means.
Newtown, Sydney
N777EP - Lockheed L-1329 JetStar 6 - Elvis Presley
at Graceland/Memphis/TN
c/n 5004 - built in 1960
Elvis Presley purchased this Lockheed JetStar aircraft for $899,702.60 on September 2, 1975 while he was awaiting delivery of CV-880 "Lisa Marie". The nickname for the JetStar was "named Hound Dog II"
This JetStar was primarily used for taking Elvis’ manager and his staff from city to city on his concert tours.
Similar to the CV-880 the JetStar was sold by the family after the death of Elvis, but later was bought back and put on display at Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
Today the King of Rock'n Roll would have been 90 years old.
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Buon compleanno Elvis!!!
Joyeux anniversaire Elvis !!!
Per molts anys Elvis!!!
Gelukkige verjaardag Elvis!!!
Feliz aniversário Elvis!!!
Grattis på födelsedagen Elvis!!!
¡¡¡Feliz cumpleaños Elvis!!!
Buon Compleanno Elvis !!!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Elvis!!!
Oggi lu Re dû Rock'n Roll avissi avutu 90 anni.
Hoy el Rey del Rock'n Roll habría cumplido 90 años.
Idag skulle King of Rock'n Roll ha fyllt 90 år.
Hoje o Rei do Rock'n Roll faria 90 anos.
Vandaag zou de King of Rock'n Roll 90 jaar oud zijn geweest.
Hoje o Rei do Rock'n Roll teria 90 anos.
Avui el Rei del Rock'n Roll hauria fet 90 anys.
Oggi il Re del Rock'n Roll avrebbe compiuto 90 anni.
Aujourd'hui, le roi du rock'n roll aurait eu 90 ans.
Heute wäre der King of Rock'n Roll 90 Jahre alt geworden.
Spanish postcard by Postal Oscarcolor, no. 519. Photo: Elvis Presley and Stella Stevens in Girls! Girls! Girls! (Norman Taurog, 1962).
Yesterday, 17 February 2023, American actress Stella Stevens (1938) passed away from Alzheimer's disease. The comedienne starred as a voluptuous platinum blonde with a deep sultry voice in many Hollywood films of the 1960s. During the decade she was one of the most photographed women in the world. Stella Stevens was 84.
Stella Stevens was born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1938 (some sources say 1936). While attending Memphis State College, Stella became interested in acting and modelling. While performing in a college production of Bus Stop, Stevens was discovered and offered a contract with 20th Century Fox. Her film debut was a bit part in the musical Say One for Me (Frank Tashlin, 1959), but her appearance in Li'l Abner (Melvin Frank, 1959) as Appassionata Von Climax is the one that got her noticed. In 1960, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Then her centrefold spread in Playboy was one of the most popular issues. In the following years, she co-starred with Bobby Darin in Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes, 1961), with Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls! (Norman Taurog, 1962), Glenn Ford in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, 1963), and Dean Martin in the Matt Helm spy spoof The Silencers (Phil Karlson, 1966). One of her best parts was Glenn Ford's drum-playing girlfriend in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Vincente Minnelli, 1962). On TV, she appeared in the series Surfside 6 (1960), Ben Casey (1961) and the soap opera General Hospital (1963).
By the late 1960s, Stella Stevens' career had levelled off and she was appearing in roles based on her looks. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Despite consistently good work, Stevens never achieved the full stardom that she deserved: When she posed again for Playboy in 1968, she admitted that it was purely to get people to attend her films." One of her best performances was opposite Jason Robards in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), where she played Hildy, and showed that her talent was more than physical. In 1972 she starred in Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure with Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, and Shelley Winters. Stevens played the role of Linda Rogo, the "refreshingly outspoken" ex-prostitute wife of Borgnine's character. She also starred in Blaxploitation films like Slaughter (Jack Starrett, 1972) with Jim Brown as a black Vietnam Veteran and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (Charles Bail, 1975) opposite Tamara Dobson. Notable is also the comedy Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976), starring Ryan O'Neal. In the 1970s and 1980s, Stella became a fixture in movies made for television and appeared in a number of television series. Her big screen career slowed during that time, but she continued to appear in a number of straight-to-video films. Stevens produced and directed a documentary profiling a variety of women from many walks of life, entitled The American Heroine (1979). She also directed the inexpensive Canadian feature The Ranch (1989). On TV, she appeared in the critically acclaimed miniseries, In Cold Blood (Jonathan Kaplan, 1996), based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. Her television career continued into the 2000s when she appeared in an episode of the sitcom Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1954, the 16-year-old Stella Stevens married electrician Noble Herman Stephens and the couple had a son, actor Andrew Stevens. They divorced in 1957 but Stella and her son retained a variation of her ex-husband's surname as their own professional surnames. Stevens died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles, California in 2023, at the age of 84.
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Bright Lights Film Journal, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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