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Growing up Elvis
Here is the story... At 4225 Beach Drive SW, stands the Chambliss House -- a bright blue home on the Puget Sound with a plaque above the doorway that states "Elvis Presley Slept Here, May 18, 1962." The plaque speaks the truth, according to Alan Chambliss, building owner and 30-year resident. He wasn't around to witness Elvis, but tells the story like it happened yesterday. About 15 years ago, Chambliss noticed a man and woman filming his house. Wondering what the fuss was about, he asked them what they were doing. Their father, dying of cancer lived in the upstairs apartment years before and loved it so much the family wanted to document it as part of a remembrance video. While making their keepsake, the family mentioned that the dying man was Elvis Presley's army buddy and the King once spent the night in the upstairs apartment. As proof of their story, they showed Chambliss pictures of their father with the music legend.Elvis and his chum kept in touch throughout the years. In 1962, Elvis came to Seattle to film "It Happened at the World's Fair" and the friend picked him up from Sea-Tac and drove him to the house on Beach Drive. "He didn’t expect to stay the night at first," Chambliss says. Perhaps the Rock-and-Roll Legend was a sucker for water views. Chambliss let the dying man's family film the upstairs apartment. About three weeks later he received the plaque, now mounted above the doorway, along with a thank you note for being so welcoming. Tenant Bob Castonguay now rents the upstairs apartment that Elvis slept in long ago. It is a modest room with a sizable deck and glittering views of the Sound. "People always laugh when I tell them I rent the Elvis room," Castonguay says. Sunlight streams through the apartment's windows, but the air hangs heavy with the sense that something important happened there. As Castonguay puts it, "Elvis is long gone, but his spirit lives on." I saw Elvis live in concert the year before he died. Even then, he was bigger than life, and had amazing charisma. Haven't seen anything like it since...— July 28, 2016 10:20 p.m.
Growing up Elvis
Also, a story about he staying at a home of an Army buddy BEFORE the start of filming is amazing, for what it became of it... http://beachdriveblog.com/2007/05/45_years_agoelv…— July 28, 2016 10:16 p.m.
Growing up Elvis
Also, in 2014, his famous quote about truth being like the sun became the basis for the title of a novel by Jim Lynch, which focussed in corruption in 1962, all the way to the present, starting during the filming of IHATWF. It is called "" Truth like the sun" Here is the NYT review http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/truth-lik…— July 28, 2016 1:24 p.m.