Elvis Presley would have been 74 years old today. Wow. Elvis will be forever young. I see more Elvis in the media now than I did when he was alive. And I hear more Elvis on the radio. This is all good. I think American needs more Elvis. The hard thing to remember, since Elvis seems to still be with us, is that he was born into another America, the Depression-era America, in 1935. There was massive unemployment, investment in businesses collapsed, home building all but ended, and housing and land prices dropped. But that was the Great Depression. Hey. Wait. What's the difference? Anyway, that's Elvis age 2 on the top with his ma and pa, and the house in Tupelo where he was born on the top right.
