Elvis Week is wrapping up (finally! I was teetering on the brink of Elvis overload), but no annual Elvis remembrance is complete without waxing romantic about Elvis the Lover and the women (other than Priscilla, of course) who loved him.

Of course, there’s Elvis’ first girlfriend, Betty McMahan (I’d love to link to the Blue Suede News item the CA printed on Thursday, but I can’t find it by searching CA.com OR goElvis.com, which is a bit frustrating).

And there was Linda Thompson, the former beauty queen who had slumber parties upstairs at Graceland.

Then there are the women featured in this story, including June Juanico, who still keeps a ring Elvis gave her on a necklace that she wears every day. And, she says, she has a box of ladies’ underwear — the ones thrown at Elvis while he was performing — stashed away for keepsakes.

“I hated it and just put ‘em in boxes. Anyway, they’re in a drawer,” she says.

Any idea what a collection like that would fetch on eBay? I’m half afraid to do the research to find out.

Posted Saturday, August 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Filed Under Category: Only In Memphis
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