Fun Facts Amout Memphis

• Driving to Memphis from Montgomery, take Route 78 in Birmingham through Tupelo, MS. Once over the TN border, R78 becomes Lamar Avenue.
  
  
  
• Elvis lived for a few months at 2414 Lamar in 1955.
• Just past the Memphis airport, Lamar Avenue crosses Getwell Road.
• 1414 Getwell Road is the last home Elvis' family rented in Memphis in 1955 and 1956.
  
  
• A young cook at the snack bar of the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis named a sandwich after himself: the Lamario Special.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Mario, Henry's favorite video game series, has been named the 2006 Man of the Year by GamePro Magazine.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The senior US senator from Tennessee is Lamar Alexander.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• After firing Lemario, the snack bar at the Pink Palace renamed the sandwich the Lamar Special.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• In the last known sighting of Elvis, he was seen in LeBonheur Children's Hospital, dressed in a silver lame suit signing autographs as Lamar Alexander.*

*This last item is probably not true.