Tupelo Driving Tour Pt.2 Elvis driving tour plus other Elvis sites in Tupelo!!

We take you around the stops on the Elvis Driving tour of Tupelo. Plus sites not on the tour
TIMESTAMP
0:00 Intro
0:20 Mayhorn Grocery
2:27 Milam Junior High
3:10 Lee County Library
4:26 Tupelo Garment Factory
6:13 Lyric Theater
7:45 Lee County Courthouse
8:45 Shake Rag
12:11 Outro
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We start part 2 of the Elvis Presley Tupelo Driving Tour by visiting a location that Elvis heard the Blues and Gospel music from each side of the road - Mayhorn Grocery where many locals would sit and sing the Blues on the porch, and the Spring Hill Church across the street where black Gospel music was heard. Could be where Elvis first heard the blues at Mayhorn Grocery. A little south is where Elvis went to school - Milam. Milam Junior High School was Elvis' first high school. Around the corner is the site of the Tupelo Public Library where Elvis first library card was obtained - or was it? Two locations not on the Tupelo driving Tour are the Tupelo Garment Factory - Gladys Presley worked at Tupelo Garment Factory, and the famous old Lyric Theater where Elvis and his friend Sam Bell would break segregation laws to watch movies! Elvis and Sam Bell would enter the segregated entrances and Elvis jumped over the barrier to sit with Sam Bell. Across from the Lyric is Lee County Courthouse where Elvis first radio performance on the Saturday Jamboree radio show on Tupelo's WELO station owned by Charlie Boren took place, on a show hosted by local celebrity Mississippi Slim. The last stop on this leg is the area that was once Shakerag - maybe not directly linked to Elvis but a possible second-hand influence on the young singer to be. Maybe Elvis heard the blues here too.
Music by the Mini Vandals
Another stop on the Elvis driving tour of Tupelo is this area here at the end of Spring Street.
this corner plot here was once the site of Mayhorn Grocery.
and this is where Elvis often would have walked past, living in 1010 North Green Street and it's said this is where he heard the blues. There would often be somebody sitting on the porch of Mayhorn Grocery, banging on an old acoustic guitar singing the blues, where Elvis would sit and listen,
Elvis driving tour marker here. So it says "In 1947 Elvis lived at the north end of Green Street
not far from here. Mayhorn Grocery previously occupied this space and Elvis would walk to the store and sit on the porch listening to the blues. It was also here that he heard the sounds of black gospel music sung in the church across the street."
So right here - Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church. And as it said up there, the Mayhorn grocery was on the corner there. So Elvis would have heard the blues on the... somebody singing on the porch, and he would have heard the black gospel coming from the Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church here. And this "was established sometime during the 1850s and it's the oldest African-American church in Tupelo. The original sanctuary still standing today was completed in 1921 and is one of the oldest surviving church buildings in Tupelo, having survived the devastating tornado of 1936."
So here's another stop on the Elvis driving tour of Tupelo. Milam Junior High. "Elvis attended the seventh and part of the eighth-grade here. He often played his guitar for classmates during the lunch hour. In 1948 the family moved to Memphis before he completed the school year."
So that's Milam Junior High School that Elvis attended for, actually the 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
"At this site on February 13th 1948, 13-year old Elvis, accompanied by his mother Gladys, applied for his first library card. Through the books he read from the Lee County Library Elvis would vicariously travel to distant places and learn new things that were still only the dreams of a young boy growing up in Tupelo. I've read a book by local historian, Julian Riley and he said the...the library at that time, in February '48, was actually situated on the third floor of the City-County building further up in downtown Tupelo so there's conflicting stories of actually where the library was at the time. Certainly, the Lee County Library would have moved to this site
shortly after that time, if it wasn't here in February '48. It still was a different building that they moved to. A more grander looking building than this more modern architecture. So Elvis would have certainly come to the library after it opened at this site, before moving up to Memphis at the end of that year - 1948.
So we're now in South Tupelo and this whole area down here was known as Mill Town. The Tupelo Garment Factory building still stands here. It's been reutilised now. There's a marketplace in there and there's a coffee shop in there somewhere I believe. Oh...'Lost and Found Coffee Company'.