Episode 79 - Tupelo, MS

In 1946, an eleven-year-old boy walked into a Tupelo, Mississippi hardware store hoping for a rifle for his birthday. His mother said no — and a store clerk handed him a guitar instead. That boy was Elvis Presley. He'd already spent his whole life in Tupelo by then, born there in a two-room house his father built, raised through real hardship, thirteen years before the family ever left for Memphis. The exact spot on the hardware store floor where he picked out that first guitar is still marked today.