Monday, November 6, 2017

Chewalla Lake Mississippi, Elvis's Birthplace - Tupelo, Tupelo Auto Museum

On Wednesday we moved from Peoples Creek in Missouri to Chewalla Lake Recreation Area in Holly Springs, Mississippi - there is hardly anyone here - we have had the place to ourselves for most of the time we have been here.  


Our Campsite

An Indian mound at the recreation area not far from our campsite

Darby's island - we take him to this little island and let him run off-leash

Chewalla Lake from the dam

On Monday we took a trip to Tupelo, Mississippi to see the famous auto museum (billed as the largest auto museum East of the Mississippi)  and also  Elvis's birthplace which is about a mile from the museum


The museum entrance (sorry for the fuzzy pic - it was so humid my lens was fogging up)

Some of the cars




Too bad they misspelled the name on the radiator



The 1950's rows

One of the two Leslie Special cars used in "The Great Race" movie

The Barrister Corvette - built by George Barris for Liberace - this is 1 of only 7 that were built.  George Barris was a custom car designer famous for designing the car in "The Munsters" TV show, the Batmobile, Kitt (the car in Knight Rider) and many others

BB King's Rolls Royce

This car was purchased by Elvis as a gift for one of his employees 

Richard Petty's '84 Grand Prix in which he one the 200th race of his career at Daytona in 1984 - this was the last race he won

Sign at Elvis's birthplace

Elvis's birthplace and childhood home - the two room house was built by his father

Statue of Elvis at age 12

The church that Elvis attended as a child - the building was moved to the Elvis's birthplace grounds from its original location about 2 blocks away when it was scheduled for demolition

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