Throughout Elvis Presley’s lifetime, the Memphis Mafia and their households had been free to return and go at his residence of Graceland, which opened as a museum to the general public 41 years in the past right this moment.
Nonetheless, the upstairs (which stays off-limits to the general public to at the present time) was his non-public house.
In actual fact, it seems The King had one-way mirrors put in on the entrance to his haven to make sure his whole privateness.
Categorical.co.uk beforehand took half in a digital dwell tour of the Graceland mansion.
To our amazement, archivist Angie Marchese started main the dwell stream digicam up the staircase.
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In fact, she couldn’t truly take us into Elvis’ bed room, workplace and different rooms. Nonetheless, the Graceland skilled did level out The King’s privateness wall on the upstairs touchdown to the correct.
Angie stated: “One query that we all the time get numerous is concerning the upstairs and one thing you may discover is that this privateness wall proper right here.”
The King had the wall put in when he first moved into Graceland in 1957. She added: “He actually had an open-door coverage that anybody he was buddies with might use Graceland and have folks come to Graceland.
“So, to make sure privateness upstairs he had this wall added and people mirrors you see are literally one-way mirrors the place he might see out however nobody might see in.”
From what we might see there was one of many one-way mirrors on the wall to the aspect of the staircase, whereas one other seemed down over it in order that each horizontal and vertical angles had been coated.
But when that wasn’t sufficient, Angie then went to the highest of the primary touchdown the place she identified how the best way as much as Elvis’ non-public upstairs space was to our proper. Nonetheless, there was additionally a door to the left which she stated folks on excursions just about all the time ask about and the place it goes.
So Angie determined to point out us by opening the door and going via it, because the digicam stayed downstairs and went into the kitchen to search out that she had come down the steps into that room.
She defined that is how Elvis would come downstairs to the kitchen the place he might decide up some snacks for himself and even his well-known peanut butter banana sandwiches.
