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Lorene BuSteed (Householder)
Loved the trivia regarding Elvis Presley today. Since all of you were in Las Vegas. I got the rare opportunity to meet Elvis Presley at the International Hotel (then) in 1970 August. My parents surprised my sister Irene and I since we had been working during the summer at Black Meadow Landing on Havasu with a visit to Las Vegas. We were so shocked. My mom took us to the L.A. Airport and off to Las Vegas we were. Can you imagine two young ladies not even 21 in Las Vegas. We were in seventh heaven. Long story short, we were seated at a table with much older people, probably our age now. We noticed that people were handing money to the ushers to get to a lower seating level. To our surprise, we asked one man to help us out, not even. We were persistent, we asked this young usher, he came to the table, got us and sat us up in front of the stage at a table for two. I tried to pay the usher, he said, "no way" just have fun and enjoy yourself. We wore our clothes a lot different then, really, really short dresses and boots. I can remember I had this purple dress with white on it, and purple boots. My hair was down to the middle of my back with long curls. We had a great time watching Elvis perform and was enjoying every minute of it. When suddenly a man by the name of Rick was kneeling down beside my chair and told my sister and I that we were invited to meet Elvis Presley at his hotel suite. I could not believe it, we knew where the suite was because we had ventured up that way before the show. After the show we proceeded to the Penthouse, saw all these people outside the room, this guard says to me, young lady where do you think you are going. I said, we have been invited to meet Elvis Presley. He said, ya sure, so has everyone else, they all think that. About that time, this guy Richard opened the door and saw us standing there, he said, hi Lorene and Irene, come on in. I said ouch, I don't believe this. I remember this long bar with big bowls of pistachio nuts on it (I love them). Actually we had gone up in the elevator with Kathy Westmoreland, one of his backup singers who lived in Norco, CA. We waited for Elvis to arrive, after sipping on Orange Juice and Vodka drink (oops we were under age). Elivs arrived in the room drop dead gorgeous and dressed in a baby blue suit. I had a camera in my purse and did not ask for a picture. The reason, he was such a nice guy, very polite and wanted the chance to talk to normal people who did not want anything from him. He told us that it was hard for him to do or go anywhere and to just be a normal person. So to this day, I so appreciate the honor of meeting such a gentle, kind person. We saw no drugs, nothing out of the ordinary, in fact the only thing he drank was little bottles of seven up. I will say one thing, he looked pretty darn good. We were in his room until 5:00 a.m. and our plane left at 6:00 a.m.
Little bit of Las Vegas trivia for those who went to Las Vegas.
Saw more pictures that were taken. Thank you. They were great!!
Lorene
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