Elvis Presley first appeared on television on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9, 1956, and I was a pretty young kid at the time.

I saw Elvis on TV around the first time he was on. It was a green screen looking picture, as I remember. I don't remember if it was on Ed Sullivan. And, yes, there were all kinds of hell raised about what a vulgar work of the devil he and his gyrations were...lol

Married couples had to sleep in separate beds on TV in those years.

What is shown on TV today would have caused anyone back then to be charged, convicted, and sent to the penitentiary for years!

This was a different world—one we would hardly recognize today. It was also pretty ugly at times.

There was a white water fountain and a black water fountain in the grocery store. No, it was a colored fountain. The word "black" had not come into use at that time.

Well, I am speaking of Houston, Texas, which was in the "Jim Crow" segregated south and the bible belt on top of that.

There were no homeless people to be seen, and the ones that could be found were locked up in jail for vagrancy. It was also illegal to shoot buffalo on the courthouse square! May still be...lol It is Texas, you know...lol

OMG, I must really be getting old...lol

Billy

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“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”