"Elvis never lost a game of pool on that table,” Kevin Kern, director of public relations for Elvis Presley Enterprises, told Memphis Magazine. A basement billiards room features walls draped in 350-plus yards of pleated fabric.Inspired by President Lyndon Johnson, Presley had three TV sets mounted in his basement television room to watch the three major networks simultaneously.Presley added a racquetball building to the estate in 1975 that includes a court, pinball machine and piano, as well as a trophy hall housing memorabilia and awards.In 1974, Presley had now-iconic stained-glass peacock panels added to the living room. “With their stylized representations of a guitar-strumming Elvis set against a pattern of musical staffs and notes, the gates suggest the entryway to a musical heaven,” according to the Memphis Commerical Appeal. Soon after moving in, Presley had wrought-iron gates installed.Other Graceland additions and rooms of note: The room, a 1965 addition, also served as a recording studio, with 16 songs from Presley’s final two albums cut there. To Presley, it was simply “the den.” Still, one of the most unique rooms in the mansion has come to be known as the Jungle Room for its Polynesian-themed decor that includes green shag carpeting on the floor–and ceiling, rainbow lighting, faux wood walls, carved wood furniture and even an artificial waterfall. Presley recorded songs in the mansion’s legendary Jungle Room. He even reportedly kept donkeys in his kidney-shaped swimming pool, added in 1957, before it was filled. Two wallabies, gifted by Australian fans, were donated to the Memphis Zoo, as were peacocks. Elvis Presley's horses on the Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, circa, 1982.Īn avid animal lover, Presley kept plenty of pets at Graceland–from Bowtie the turkey to a mynah bird who could chirp phrases including “Elvis isn’t here” to a number of horses and dogs to a chimpanzee named Scatter and a squirrel monkey named Jayhew.
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