I’ve wanted to go here all my life, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

My dream was finally fulfilled last week!

Here is Elvis’s living room!!

After that, though… things just got a little less… opulent. In general, Graceland was modest in most of the ways I expected it to be over the top, but it went over the top in ways I didn’t expect. Take a look at this kitchen:

Y’all, that is Elvis Presley’s kitchen. The KING of rock & roll. And he went with Formica countertops, lamps with fruit on them, and a… carpet?

Good appliances, though. I assume. For the time. Which, in case you couldn’t tell, was THE SEVENTIES.

Here’s the (again, remarkably modest/70s-tastic) office where Elvis’s dad handled all Elvis’s business.

There’s also a whole trophy building with a sampling of Elvis’s various gold records and other awards:

My favorite part of Graceland was the fashion. There are a few exhibits sprinkled throughout the property (it’s the mansion grounds and then a whole strip-mall situation across the street) on Elvis’s sartorial elegance.

You can actually purchase replicas of some of the jumpsuits for several thousand dollars — totally worth it!

Before touring Elvis’s private planes, you have to go through airport security:

Did you know Elvis had this TCB logo made up in the 70s to represent taking care of business… in a flash?! Neither did I. Clearly, it was an invention of 70s, jumpsuit-and-cape-wearing Elvis rather than dreamy 50s Elvis. But apparently he was way into the logo. It’s on a bunch of stuff, including one of the planes:

and on Elvis’s (alleged) headstone:

Finally, I leave you with this:

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