Elvis Presley has not left the building!

[JAM]

Elvis himself was a pool player, and his Graceland mansion features a billiards room that still contains his personal table. Elvis died in 1977 at the age of 42. His estate earned $52 million in the past year, tops among dead celebrities, according to Forbes.com.

According to this article, Elvis is the "number-one money making dead person."

Elvis may have left the building long ago, but a Bay City company (Michigan) plans to put him back in rec rooms across the country.

Game-table maker Shelti Inc. is producing a line of Elvis-themed pool tables with the blessing of Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc.

The tables feature wrap-around graphics of The King performing in his "White Jumpsuit" Las Vegas show days. The images also show casinos and the Las Vegas welcome sign. :grin-square:

The Elvis theme carries to details on the pool cues. Shelti has produced about two dozen of the tables so far.

Shelti was founded in 2001 at the same site in Bay City after the closure of Valley Recreation.

About two dozen Elvis tables have rolled off the production line at Shelti since late November, and the remainder will likely be finished in 2009, Jeske said. The tables are for home use and don't require coins to operate.

Each table features burgundy felt on the playing surface and anchors a larger Elvis pool-table package. The set includes a Tiffany style lamp with Elvis images and his name in large letters, an Elvis pool cue rack with cues and a serial number with name plate for the purchaser.

The package will retail for $5,995, and Shelti is offering a discount to local buyers this month, Jeske said. The tables will be sold through Lordsvale, as well as through Shelti dealers and Shelti's Web sales arm, recrooms.com.

Five tables have been sold since the product was unveiled at a recent trade show in Florida, Jeske said.

Artricle source: http://blog.mlive.com/bctimes/2008/12/bay_city_company_is_building_p.html

 

[JAM]

More pool-related items with the Elvis Presley theme! :wink:

 

[JAM]

Here's a picture of Elvis' pool table at Graceland!

 

[Fatboy]

i'm very good friends with ga ga Gabors husband Fredrick, sorry i cant spell her name, anyways they live at 1000 bel aire rd in bel-aire ca 90077, they bought tht house from elvis something like 40 years ago, there are a few pics of him in it still, on the second floor there is a 9' table, very old and fancy, no name plate for who made it, It most likely came wit hthe house, I have played on it many times, I will ask my girl friend if she has a picture of me playing on it, for a German reality show-Fredrick is very famous in Germany(for all the wrong reasons) we played pool and they filmed us-about a year ago, why i didnt share that story here I dont know. I will ask Ralf(Big Tattoo) if he saw the show. It would be cool if that was Elvis's table, I did ask and they didnt know, I never met ga ga she stays down stairs-its basically 2 seperate houses.

 

[JAM]

In an August 2007 Larry King interview, Priscilla Presley comments about Elvis' love of pool.

Article source: http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_PriscillaLarryKing2007.html

Edited transcript:

KING: So he spent a lot of time in that room.

P. PRESLEY: He spent, yes, pretty good time in there. This is the pool room. And this is -- as you can see, it's a pretty wild room, very colorful.

KING: Did he shoot pool, too?

P. PRESLEY: He did shoot pool. Yes. He loved to play pool. He was a pretty good pool player.

 

[JAM]

Another picture of Elvis Presley's pool table at Graceland. Wow, the colors of it all! :thumbup:

 

[JAM]

Here's a better shot the table at Graceland.

AzBilliards Gold Star goes out to who can NAME THAT TABLE!

 

[JAM]

Okay, okay. Last picture of the table, but after all, this is ELVIS.

Here's a side shot. Of the table, that is.

 

[JAM]

Have you ever noticed how many billiard posters are out with Elvis, Marilyn, James Dean, and Bogey? :thumbup:

Here is one entitled "Legal Action." Hey, I kind of like this one!

 

[JAM]

Here's the foursome (all of them deceased) enjoying a brewskie in "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." It looks like Elvis is the bartender.

 

[JAM]

And now the foursome engaged in a poker game, poster entitled "Four of a Kind."

 

[JAM]

I'm not so sure I like the title of this poster: "Game of Fate." :yikes:

I think I'd rather be a railbird!

 

[JAM]

And for the diehard Elvis fan -- (pun definitely not intended) -- here is a cue stick holder of the King! :grin-square:

Man, do those sticks look crooked or what!? LOL! At any rate, you can have this baby for about 400 bucks. A must-have for all Elvis fans and a nice addition in an Elvis-themed pool room.

 

[JAM]

And while you're waiting for your turn at the pool table, you can play a little friendly game of Elvis chess.

This is a very cute Elvis chess set, with the King, the hound dog knight, the Graceland castle, and the blue suede shoes pawns. I love it! :grin-square:

 

[Newton]

Cool to see those pic's from his private room.
Wild - for sure...

K

 

[JAM]

I'll bet there aren't too many members of this forum who can remember the TV show, "Mod Squad."

Peggy Lipton was one of the stars of that show, and Elvis Presley was an old boyfriend of hers, so she says.

Peggy Lipton can play some pool too, and she may have learned her shooting strategies from Elvis. In a 1986 interview, she was telling stories about her string of famous flames, including Paul McCartney and Elvis Presley "(in his pilled-out, girdle-wearing phase)."

Well, aside from telling tales on Elvis, she cant' be all that bad: It was 9:45 p.m. Time to play some pool. Ms. Lipton hopped with her friends into their S.U.V. and rode five minutes to Hollywood Billiards. Just walking into the high-ceilinged warehouse, with its 30 pool tables, bouncy 90's-era hip-hop music, sideburned hustlers and giggly 20-something women got Ms. Lipton's blood going.

"I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this," she said, framing a rectangle in the air with her hands. "I really want to become a pool shark."

 

[JAM]

Collecting artifacts and star memorabilia has long been an American enjoyment, at least by those who can afford it.

In a 2005 USA Today article entitled "The Sweet Smell of Excess":

It's a good thing Elvis has left the building, because even he might be dumbfounded by a freakish fad: public auctions featuring weird celebrity ephemera.

Such as the 3 tablespoons of water said to have been touched by The King at a 1977 concert, which recently sold on eBay for $455. Then, someone else paid thousands for a "guest appearance" by the cup that held the water from which Elvis sipped nearly 30 years ago.

In recent years, someone paid nearly $1,500 for a billiard ball from Elvis' pool table. A hanging macrame plant holder from Graceland, complete with a plastic fern, went for $633. And someone else paid $748 for a tree limb that "mysteriously" broke off and fell to the ground during Presley's funeral at Graceland in 1977.

We all know that Elvis' fans can be wacky, and Elvis himself has pride of place in the dead-celebrities pantheon.

GEESH! :shocked2:

 

[JAM]

Check out this Elvis Presley commemorative pool ball, picture taken from Wikipedia billiards article.

Can you see which one it is?:smile:

I kind of like the leopard one myself!

 

[cuesblues]

Interesting bunch of pics, thanks for posting them

Great thread

 

[Newton]

I liked the Presley cue which McDermott made some years back. Would be cool to have in the private pool room (which is not built yet).

K