Graceland In Orlando - Elvis Presley Home Recreation / Full Size FL Replica & Guitar Shaped Pool
Graceland Orlando - Elvis Presley House Replica
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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today's adventure
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begins off of highway 192 in kissimmee
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i am standing next to a gift shop which
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has
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one of the few as far as like as far as
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i can tell
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murals of the king of rock and roll that
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can be
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found in central florida right up there
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elvis presley and a classic
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car alert i am holding a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage so toasty in fact
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that it has a little
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cardboard cardboard covering
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around it now across the way is old town
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where
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plenty of pop culture paraphernalia
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from his day can be found you know
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t-shirts stickers the likes of that well
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pretty much everywhere
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across the u.s you could find such items
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but here in central florida you will not
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find
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graceland no no that is in memphis
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tennessee
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i was born in tupelo mississippi you can
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also find
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a lot of elvis's homesteads
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past homesteads there
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but nary or nay
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or at least it is so thought that you
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could find one here
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in central florida but a suburb of
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orlando about 30 miles from here
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i will be traversing to and i'm going to
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show you an exact replica of pretty dang
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accurate
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pretty close might be a little off of
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graceland
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elvis is home i'm inviting you to join
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me
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shall you
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i'm also going to go up by a couple of
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locations that
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include a little well attempt to include
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a little back story on
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why it exists and
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and who built it
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going to your home while i was driving i
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started i remembered that right off of
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international drive there is another
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homage it's located just at the front
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door of
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chewy's restaurant when you go up to the
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chewie's entrance
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you will see a rather large bust of the
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king
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this thing is like 10 feet tall and it's
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just a
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it's just him sitting here his noggin
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and all its glory that's just had to
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have to swing by and
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and show this you kind of have to right
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it's this is
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pretty impressive looks to be a pretty
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nice day to commute around the greater
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orlando area
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the city beautiful it's referred to as
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and it's a beautiful day not
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not too many clouds in the sky this
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building is located at 630
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emirelda drive used to be
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a skating center by the name of
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pandemonium
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and it appears as if it is the same
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building it's just been
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kind of converted into a number of
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different establishments
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that have taken over the building but
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you can tell it really does appear to be
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in the same shape as a rather large you
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know skating rink
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from back in the 80s and the owner of
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this
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is who we have to think he was a
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businessman and built quite a few homes
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and ran a few businesses around the area
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he
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is who we have to thank for the replica
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of graceland that i'm about to head over
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to
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his name was claude douda and the home
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had built someone else owns at the
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moment
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and this plaza where the skate center
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was
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check out the name of it it's very
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hidden
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all of the businesses that he started no
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longer exist
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ah skating rinks
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so much so many good memories i figured
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while i was in this area i drove a few
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miles over to
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gotha to check out this yard i've
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heard about for quite some time but
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never seen with my own eyes
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wow look at take a look at this
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is in someone's yard there's some
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elephants there
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and other an assortment of animals
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wow that's road closed up here so i
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don't know how much further i can go
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what if there's anything elvis related
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in this yard
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this was a tree well a big piece of wood
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that was carved into an alligator that
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alligator is holding
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he's festooned with some kind of item
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and there's a little cat down there as
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well i've turned around
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and gonna drive parallel to this fence
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line
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oh wow look up there these like plants
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are like dangling
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oh look at this bear this is the same
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type of bear they have in the gift shop
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at knott's berry farm
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in buena park california
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that's awesome
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that's cool
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gentlemen here walking
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up his tusk not as tough but his
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snout broken off there
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there's some zebras
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there's a hand with the finger pointing
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to the sky
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there's a chariot
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are you not entertained i think that's
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the quote i might have messed it up
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okay moving on located on
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highland oaks drive and this development
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has a different name now but some of the
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homes if you look them up
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are still listed as graceland estates
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even though there is no signage stating
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that
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a very quiet neighborhood and
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at the end of the cul-de-sac
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is the subject matter in question
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now about seven or eight years ago i
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drove through
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this area this neighborhood
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i didn't get out i didn't stop one of
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the neighbors at that time
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was not too kind with me kind of being
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here
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but since then i've noticed quite a few
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other folks have stopped off to document
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so i figured this is my time to return
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to the gates of graceland
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it's like i'm back in memphis tennessee
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once again
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the only major difference i am noticing
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is there are two
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wrought iron gates as opposed
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to one if i was in
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memphis it would look more like
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this with this gate
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being on the precise side angled a
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little bit differently
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when you enter you would go through what
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would be that open gate
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and either take the tour bus up or walk
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up the hill the house is a little
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farther off of the road
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and it's not in a cul-de-sac like it is
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look at the stretch limo there in the
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yard
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built in 1981 for a little over half a
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million dollars five hundred thousand
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dollars in the early 2000s
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it was sold to what we could assume is
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the
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current owner for just over two hundred
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thousand dollars which in my opinion i
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think is a
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pretty good deal for a
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a home of this magnitude
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and size five or six bedrooms
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five bathrooms
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there is a pool in the backyard that is
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shaped like a guitar
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now the pool is directly behind
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this facade as opposed to the pool
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at the real graceland which would be
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over in that corner
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next to the little peaceful meditation
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garden
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the pool is directly behind this
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you can see it's kind of falling into a
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little bit
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of disrepair there is some you know some
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breakage up towards the top there
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but there are the pillars there are the
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there are the two statues in front
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this is nice a very very large
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piece of property the other thing that's
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very very different and noticeable
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is there is a kind of a gate
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fence area here and there's not the
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concrete
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brick one that everyone writes their
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names on
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at the real graceland where everyone
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just takes a sharpie and etches
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their name and their love for the king
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and their
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memories that they would like to share
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with others which would be carve if you
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did that here
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that would be much frowned upon
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this this gate here is open i'm not
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going to go through there
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obviously this is amazing
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it's like it's like you're really at
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the real place with the music notes
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down here i really like the yard too
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see how how much property stretches over
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that way
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pine hills i believe is the
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the area the suburb of orlando
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that this is in
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he could be maybe seen
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there you could just imagine elvis
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following him up to the gates of
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the florida graceland
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and watch him walk right through
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now security they they would not see him
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there's a pretty little thing waiting
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for the king up in the jungle room i
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heard
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i'm quoting lyrics to a song that up on
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one of the levels at one time
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there was a jungle room in here as well
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and maybe the current owner has done
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away with that but that'd be pretty neat
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if it still existed
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a little dot there shows where i'm
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currently standing
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and wanted to kind of pinpoint the pool
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there in the backyard that looks like
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a guitar pretty good size
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i don't know why well i know why i chose
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this spot to stand because there
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wouldn't be a glare
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on my phone
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i am not walking in memphis i am walking
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in pine hills
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look at the chandelier up there
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chandelier and stained glass window
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this is so cool graceland orlando
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edition
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not something that's really on
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everyone's radar
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gotta wonder how many folks come out
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here and make the pilgrimage to a place
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that elvis
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never was at i know i did that's gonna
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do it for today
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