Anywhoo. Here are some lovely photos from our trip to Kentucky.
As I mentioned before, we stopped at one of my favorite places on earth, the Falls Creek Paveillion. It is a Great Big gas station with a Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Baskin-Robins inside. Local wisdom has it that the couple who own this particular truck-stop went to Disneyland and were entranced with a building there called something like the Sun Pavillion. They took lots of photos, came back to KY and had their gas station built as a replica. In addition to being a truck-stop, the Paveillion serves as a sort of country music museum. There are about 20 TVs in various parts of the place (it is pretty big inside) and all are tuned to some country music video station. And that is not all. There are glass cases randomly placed throughout with relics from famous country stars. (Although a disproportionate number are in the Taco Bell, which I don't pretend to understand)
Here are two of my faves, all from the Taco Bell area's Elvis Collection.
Relics of the King are highly sought-after, and consequently worth a lot of money, even Elvis' Underwear which are being sold for $2200. So, any authentic memorabilia of Elvis is rather valuable. At the Paveillion, they have the requisite lock of Elvis' hair
And something a little weirder.
This is an Exxon gas credit card issued to Elvis, complete with the welcome letter and envelope. This doesn't appear to be a card he applied for, but one that the company sent out to try and get new customers (back in the days when they just sent credit cards to anyone who would use them) So--Elvis didn't sign this, or use it, and in fact there is no evidence that he ever actually touched it. Not such a hot collectible in my book.
There are some more photos (including the Giant Guitar! You don't want to miss that!) in my Flickr photos...including one of AJ in front of the 1900 megawatt coal generating plant near Louisa. He looks angry...
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