Alright, so where were you when you heard Elvis died...

[MalibuChloe]

you old, old, old, old people?

:evilgrin:

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. I didn't hear it...

I was enjoying my last week in the womb at the time :)

[flamingyouth]

2. Playing with my Barbie Country Camper on our front porch.

[Pithlet]

3. I was 5, and visiting my grandmother

who was not a fan. Actually, my parents weren't either. I'm surprised I even knew who he was. I must have, because I can remember it clearly, and I don't think it would have registered otherwise.

[myrna minx]

4. I was on a 1970's family road trip in the faux wood-paneled station wagon.

We were dining at a Sambo's (gawd-remember those racist restaurants?) in Lake Tahoe. It was the talk of the whole diner.

[edbermac]

5. Elvis is DEAD?!?!?!?

OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[MalibuChloe]

7. hahaha

that made me spew my egg flower soup all over the screen. :-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. No, he went to his home planet.

[rsdsharp]

6. I was sitting in front of a microphone

and the voice I was listening to was mine, as I interrupted regular programming, and read the AP Flash that Elvis was dead. It was no more than 15 seconds from the time the story cleared the wire.

[WCGreen]

8. Sitting on the crapper coming down from a barbituate high

eating a peanut butter and fried banana sandwhich

[Trigger Hippie]

9. Soiling my diapers

:evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Fuck if I know. Really didn't care all that much,

still don't really care.

Though I do feel sorry for the poor guy. He really got fucked by his "manager".

[trackfan]

11. Here's a poem that describes it:

Albin's Drugs

This I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven:
Hollywood Way and Magnolia
Boulevard meet a few blocks from
here, in the city of Burbank.
Now there's a Thrifty, but once the
name of the store on the southeast
corner - a drugstore - was Albin's.
Then, long ago, in the summer,
Danny O'Heron had many
flyers he needed delivered.
Placing the flyers on people's
cars, homes and lawns was my job. I
stopped to get lunch at the in-store
counter at Albin's. I heard a
customer taunting the waitress,
"Elvis, your hero, your lover's
dead." I cared little, as rock for
me had begun with the Beatles.
Elvis had seemed like an old-time
idol, not unlike Sinatra.
That I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I was attending a summer session at the University of Hawaii

before taking off for my first stay in Japan. (Yeah, I know. Real hardship, huh?)

I was coming out of some meal or other (I forget which one) at the East-West Center cafeteria when I noticed the headline in the newspaper dispenser.

I was in my twenties.

[no name no slogan]

13. celebrating my 8th birthday

and asking everybody "who the hell is this Elvis guy"?

You see, my mom was a big Beatles fan... :evilgrin:

[soothsayer]

14. Upstate NY, Paleface Dude Ranch, our favorite summer haunt

[LynneSin]

15. I was on a bus coming home from Girl Scount Day Camp

And I cruelly said I was glad he was dead cause I hated his music

Of course it was wrong to think anyone being dead was good but I was never an Elvis fan

[KamaAina]

16. Grandparents' house in Fort Myers, FL

I'd generally go down there during summer vacation.

It was the headline in the Ft. Myers News-Press that they had delivered every moring: "King of Rock dies".

Grandpa was more interested in his crossword. Years earlier he had infamously warned Mom against listening to "that fat-lipped n----r music". Really.

[Saphire]

17. in Houma La. watching Dan Rather....I was 18.

[AlCzervik]

19. Tyngsboro ma. at my Grandparents cottage.

[mandyky]

20. Basic training - Ft McClellan Alabama

My boyfriend also proposed to me on the phone that day.

on eidt - I was 22.

My Dad died this year on Elvis' birthday.