Tupelo, Where Elvis got his start

Thursday 2-3-11
As we traveled toward Memphis, we turned off in Tupelo, Mississippi to visit Tupelo Hardware, the store where Elvis’s mom bought him his first guitar. It is a great old fashioned hardware store.

The same family owes the store that owned it when Elvis shopped there. An employee, Howard, told us the whole story and gave a lot of history of the Presley family and of the town and the store in particular.They sell anything you can imagine, like a good old fashioned general store. It reminded Ellen of the store her Grandpa Hansen used to have in Idaho.

Ellen with a smile to see all the stuff! The very door were Elvis walked through. See the X on the floor that is where Elvis threw a fit for a bike but got a guitar instead.

Replica of the Guitar with famous signitures.

You can buy your own