The Memphis Ukulele Flash Mob entertained participants in the St. Jude Marathon on Sat. December 1st, 2018.

“The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is the single largest one-day fundraising event for St. Jude. Every race course passes through the campus of St. Jude, one of the world's premier pediatric cancer research centers.”

“St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded in 1962, is a pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. The hospital costs about $2.4 million a day to run, and there is no cost to the patient to be treated.” St. Jude Website

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More about the Memphis Ukulele Flash Mob can be found on facebook @ Memphis Ukulele Flash Mob.

AUG. 2018 ~~Women leave kisses on the wall of what was once the bedroom of Elvis Presley. This apartment, was home to Elvis Presley during his teenage years in Memphis. It is now open for tours.

Elvis fans can sleep in Elvis's bedroom, eat in the kitchen he ate in and sit in the halls where he played guitar because NOW they rent out the unit by the night for $250.00.

Presley lived in public housing with his family at Lauderdale Court before he reached stardom in 1956 as an entertainer. Regular tenants have occupied the income based apartment all theses years until what was Lauderdale Courts public housing underwent renovations. The units are now called Uptown Square apartments. Elvis lived there with his parents at 185 Winchester, apartment 328, from 1949 until 1953. The unit has been decorated to look like it would have during that time and then personalized with photos of Elvis and his family.

Uptown Square is just north of downtown Memphis.

Need you ask? Yes, I left a lip print of my own for the king.

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http://www.uptownmemphis.org/elvis.htm