On a Tuesday afternoon in October 1971, Elvis Presley famously stopped outside Benson’s Pharmacy in Memphis after seeing 12-year-old Tommy Richardson playing a battered guitar to earn $17 for his sick mother’s medicine.
Upon learning the boy had only raised one dollar after three hours of playing, Elvis paid for the prescription himself, gave the boy $100 for groceries, and personally drove him home in his Cadillac.
I wonder if those two beautiful young ladies were Elvis' dates.
ReplyDeleteNo one gave a shit until Elvis stopped by. Then they couldn't stay away. The logo on that headstock looks like Martin. Bacon was 69 cents a pound in1971.
ReplyDeleteWonder Bread was 5 loaves for $1 in 1971.
DeleteMinimum wage was $1.75 in 1971 in my state. Gas was 30 cents a gallon. Work an hour and get 6 gallons of gas. I was working in a foundry in high school 4-12pm second shift pouring steel. I was underage with a fake ID making $3.65/ hour and flush with cash and helping with bills at home. . Today minimum wage in my state is $15/hr. Gas is $2.60/gal. Work an hour and get 6 gallons. It's all relative.
DeleteGasoline seems to be riding a pogo stick ... one day it's $2.39 and the next it's $3.29. F*ckin' Old - Slow Joe Biden and his idiocy with the gas and coal industry. The same goes for rates for electricity and shutting down the fossil fuel electric generating plants.
DeleteWell, that's all right, mama
ReplyDeleteThat's all right for you
That's all right mama, just anyway you do
Evil Elvis. Gyrating those hips. Getting them girls all worked up. Sacrilege. Tsk tsk. Revolting.
Now we’ve got an international superstar shaking bootie during the superbowl and this dumb bunny fed administration wants to investigate the NFL for indecency. History repeats itself.
#1 song around Christmas 2024..... wet ass pussy.
DeleteWhat a toilet we live in. Lot's of Democrap turds floating around us. Time to flush and let God sort us out.
Seems most visitors to this site are old geezers. We grew up in a time when sex and sexuality were hinted at with winks and innuendo. And, unfortunately, repression taken out on innocent children, as Epstein’s papers are showing/will show.
DeleteYounger people today, especially women, are much more direct about sex and desire than our generations. They talk openly about sex, look at older people like us as frustrated deviants and pervs. Your old geezer disgust is the younger’s norm, just as our elders were appalled with our new norms. Like Elvis.
Why is it news when a rich man gives a poor boy money? And not even that much money for him.
ReplyDeleteOddly that says a lot about how often you've helped others.
DeleteKindness requires a certain % of your wealth or it doesn't count?
Michael, kindness requires the act to be done. Selflessly.
DeleteThat % bs is a made up holdover from ancient days and church elders enriching the church coffers (read pockets).
Nowhere in the good book is there a passage about percentages.
"Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything." Genesis 14:18-20
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So under what logic or evidence do you show Elvis wasn't acting out of selfless kindness?
DeleteThat one of the constant paparazzi around him caught him in the act?
The rich man, Elvis, grew up dirt poor and never forgot his roots. I live just outside Memphis and although I wasn’t around during the time Elvis was living there, a number of folks I know were, including retired Memphis police. This man did stuff like that on a regular basis. Back in 1971 a $100 was no small sum of money to a struggling family.
DeleteGive as your heart so purposes.
DeleteGive a dollar or give a dime. It's the state of your heart that's important.
The Rich Man (Rich 12:35 PM) has it right.
DeleteThere's always a balance in giving. You give enough to help but not enough to remove self respect.
DeleteRead it again. He also gave his time.
DeleteLook at the photo again. He connected with the boy, on his level.
Yeah. 1971.
ReplyDeleteWhen Tha Kanng walked among us.
Elvis was a decent sort. I hated to see him go as he did. When he was drafted, he went without complaint, unlike a certain boxer who changed his name from Cassius Clay.
ReplyDeleteUnlike other 'protesters,' he paid the price. Lost his title, stripped of three years of his career in his prime, and convicted of draft evasion although his sentence was overturned. For what it's worth, I served.
DeleteCassius Clay also joined the Black muslims (small "m" intended) and like Malcom X and almost all of those black malcontents, he espoused a separate black nation carved out of the United States.
DeleteBack when people were ALLOWED to be decent.
ReplyDeleteElvis was the real king. Not that ass-clown "boss" Stinksteen.
ReplyDeletethe 2 hippie chicks, nice
ReplyDeleteIt still sucks after the Beatles pulled the rug out from under his pedestal Elvis was willingly crowned a narc by Nixon and he promised to clean up the druggy world of the hippies. Everyone knows Elvis hated drugs.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great and heart warming story. No need for most of the stupid comments posted above in response.
ReplyDelete100 bucks in '71 buys what $900 does today. It was certainly a help for that kid and his family. Probably wasn't the only C note Elvis handed out that week.
ReplyDeleteif you’ve ever been to Graceland, you would know that Elvis was an extremely generous person. He directly helped thousands of people over in need.
ReplyDeleteAmerican health care at its finest
ReplyDelete50 years later no improvement but at least our leadership now has concepts of a plan
Long live the king.
ReplyDeleteNo won even mentions he was an island before an EpStIeN. Peanut butter and bananas. Original fag he was.
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