Elvis Makes it onto a License Plate
The state of Mississippi is issuing an Elvis license plate whose proceeds will help fund a youth center in Elvis’s Tupelo birthplace – 50 years after the King came up with the idea.
The plate was pushed through the state’s legislature by the Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club, and needs only 300 potential customers in order that the plate actually be produced – which shouldn’t be too big of an issue in Mississippi. The club is hoping to have all 300 applications by May 10.
Thus far, approximately 120 applicants have signed up for the plate. The charity tags cost $31 annually and are only available to Mississippi residents. Interestingly, the club held benefit concerts to build a youth center in Tupelo in both 1956 and 1957, but the center was never built.
For the future center, the club hopes to form a partnership with the Tupelo Aquatic Club so that the youth center would feature a pool and locker rooms.
Elvis always wanted to give something to the community where he grew up, but the poor guy never had the opportunity.
The Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club has been dormant for some time, even if it now plays host to 150 active members (not counting Elvis fans who sign up when touring the singer’s hometown).
I just want to know if Van Morrison was singing about the honey from this Tupelo town.
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