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30-NOV-2012

The Jungle Room, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, 2012

Some visitors wept when they passed the gaudy “Jungle Room,” the most famous of Graceland’s twenty-three rooms. It boasts shag rugs on its floor, walls, and ceiling, an indoor waterfall, and this large Teddy Bear leaning on one of Presley’s guitars. I zoomed in on that bear, seated on a fur-covered chair featuring arms carved in an African motif. Presley would often unwind after his performances in this room, which one biographer called “an example of particularly lurid kitsch.” This room, like all of Graceland, remains in a 1970’s time warp, still very much as it looked on the day when Presley suddenly died of prescription drug-related causes on the floor of his Graceland bathroom.

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