In the summer of 1947, a woman walked into a drug store in Memphis, Tennessee, to drop off film to be developed when she realized she had one exposure left.
She noticed a young boy outside the drugstore and asked him to pose with his bicycle so she could finish the roll and turn it in.
Only years later did she realize that it was a 12-year-old boy who would grow up to be a megastar.
ht/ woody
That Elvis boy?
Futher Mucker looks like a Hound Dawg.
I don’t have a very good recollection of the summer of ’47, probably because I was over a year away from being conceived.
Who dat? “Megastar born in ’35” isn’t specific enough for me.
Jim Morrison or Marlon Brando?
Brad before Zoobaz?
MEMPHIS!!
Looks like someones getting liquored up again tonight. Sorry, not playen.
https://clickamericana.com/topics/celebrities-famous-people/young-elvis-elvis-presley-child-teen
Surreal.
All of that was ahead of him.
The undisputed King of Rock n Roll.
A random kid with a big future waiting.
Aww. Some big guy’s feelings are bruised. Boo hoo.
^^^LOL
There you go BFH. This is a cry for help.
When I took that picture of Elvis I told him, “Thank You. Thank You very much.”
Huh. I always thought Elvis was from Tupelo, MS.
But then, I never was a big fan.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Looks gay
Why does his hand and fingers look so big
Pastor Bob
I’ve checked a couple of Elvis’ biographies and both say his move from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, took place in 1948. So what was he doing there, age 12, in 1947 with his bicycle?
Now that it’s been pointed out, the kid in the photo does indeed look like a young Elvis Presley. But there’s something not quite right about the date.
Family was in town checking it out before deciding to move?
Mama would want to be sure it was ok with her son!
waves in the cloth of the shirt
it does look like extra long fingers
would need blow up and study
Joe Biden?
fun story either way.
@dee:
That’s certainly a possibility. But they lugged along the boy’s bicycle?
Oh. Maybe he stole the bike! JK
Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump?
Al they knew somebody in town
this small family wouldn’t just up and make a big move without family there would they? Mama must have had somebody there, cousins?
they had extended family throughout the south–see Find-a-grave memorial for Vernon’s father (Elvis’ grandpa)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1751/jesse_dunning_mcclowell_presley
I have not read in detail but looks like both parents of Elvis from Mississippi, yet close relatives did seem to wander about South
It’s really odd that he is doing that over and over. His words are meant as punches. If only he knew that if not for the safety of distance and the keyboard, with one punch, you could not only knock him out but kill his dead relatives. Oh, well.
The boy is Claus.
He is Prankster Bug.
He has fooled ewe.
Ah,
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
“I have one more picture on this roll of film I want to get developed. I don’t want to waste it, so I will will take a picture of some random kid I don’t know from Adam.”
Mao Zedong no doubt…
Google: In the summer of 1947, a woman walked into a drug store in Memphis, Tennessee, to drop off film
Result: https://twitter.com/Mrstanleycup/status/1784754776795652285
The rest of the,
Story
BFH
I don’t get it. The dudes got to find a new hobby. Besides me. Sticking pins in the voodoo doll ain’t working.
Can’t we all just get along?
SMDH
Blue Schwinn Shoes?
Love Me Schwinnder…
Another oddity
If the woman was ready to take the film to be developed, the discovery of an extra picture remains on the roll would have been at home. No one would be carrying a 1940s era camera into the drugstore with film still in the camera. The film would have to have been rolled back into the film canister before removing from camera.
Viva Lost Daguerreotype