Established in 1945, Johnnie's Drive-In is a fixture of the Tupelo, MS community.

Elvis Presley used to frequent Johnnie's to have an RC Cola and a hamburger when he lived here as a kid. He would visit the location whenever he came through on tour, and the restaurant features an "Elvis Booth." Throughout Johnnie's are many pictures and other Elvis memorabilia.

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In 1946, Elvis Presley's mother was at this hardware store with her son. To distract Elvis from the .22 rifles, she showed him the guitars. After Elvis began strumming one, she purchased him his first guitar at this location.

The pastor at their church taught him how to play, and Elvis with his guitar became a regular sight around town.

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Founded in 1923 as East High School at it's present location, James Garfield High School is known as the magnet school for the school district's Accelerated Progress Program for especially gifted students. As a result, it has many college-level classes available ranging from calculus-based physics to Advanced Placement (AP) studio art.

Famous alumni of Garfield High include Jimi Hendrix and Quincy Jones. A sculpted bust of Hendrix (by Jeff Day of Whidbey Island) is located in the library of the school. The public can see the sculpture with a pass from the main office.

The children like to roll up paper and place it in the bust's mouth to make it look like Hendrix is smoking a joint. A student once placed a walkie-talkie inside the bust to perpetrate like it was talking.

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On the exterior of 23 Brook St is an blue English heritage plaque indicating that Jimi Hendrix lived at the location from 1968-1969. The plaque was dedicated on Sept. 15, 1997 by Pete Townshend.

The flat was mainly lived in by Hendrix's girlfriend at the time, Kathy Etchingham, and her friend, Angie Bourdon.

Next door at 25 Brook Street is the Handel House Museum, where German-born baroque composer George Frideric Handel made his home in London in 1712 and eventually became a British citizen in 1727.

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On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix went to the basement apartment of his girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, at this location (apartment #22).

Hendrix had taken 9 of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping pills to help him sleep. This particular brand of Belgian sleeping pill was a much stronger presciption then he was used to, and the mix of red wine and sleeping pills cause him to asphyxiate on his own vomit. He was 27 years old.

There are a number of the prerequisite conspiracy theories surrounding Hendrix's death, but those are the established facts.

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