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coletta’s italian restaurant
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
Opened in 1923, Coletta's has been a Memphis institution for years. The King used to love to eat the famous barbeque pizza here (a pizza that Coletta's claims to have invented).
Today, there are two Coletta's in Memphis (this is the one that the King frequented).
view full location details...1034 audubon dr
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
In 1956, Elvis bought this house at 1034 Audubon Dr for his family for $29,000 (after leaving their apartment at 1414 Getwell Rd).
The family lived there for just one year before Elvis bought Graceland. The house still stands today.
view full location details...former jimi hendrix boyhood home
from jimi hendrix posted in music by tacopolis
Originally located in the Central District, Al Hendrix bought a home at this location in 1950 with a $10 down payment.
Jimi Hendrix lived at this address from the ages of 10 to 13, when he first discovered music. Leon Hendrix (Jimi's younger brother by five years) remembers Jimi playing the Peter Gunn theme on a ukulele "because you could play it using only one string."
The home was originally moved to the Hi-Land Mobile Manor, a trailer park opposite to the Jimi Hendrix memorial at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, but the house was torn down in 2009 because financing couldn't be secured. The contents of the home (wood, bathtub, doors, etc.) have been put into storage for safe-keeping. Pictures of the pre-disassembled home can be seen here.
view full location details...alcor life extension foundation
from cryonics posted in technology by tacopolis
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is the largest cryonics organization in the world today. With 12 full-time employees, Alcor has 975 members with 112 members currently in a state of cryopreservation, with 76 of those members in a state of brain preservation, preserved perpetually by liquid nitrogen.
This is where the head of baseball player Ted Williams is preserved.
view full location details...1414 getwell rd
from elvis presley posted in music by tacopolis
This was the last apartment that the Presleys would rent. After moving in in mid 1955, Elvis was having a measure of success recording and touring. The family lived here until May of 1956 when they moved to their first purchased home at 1034 Audobon.
Today, the apartment is a business in a strip mall on Getwell Rd.
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