[UA] run it up the flagpole

[David M Jacobs]

At 01:40 PM 24/09/2003 -0400, con_job at excite.com wrote:

>Rumor has it there's an Elvis impersonator (Ray Casivetis) who collects 
>memorabilia of the king's.  In addition to one of Elvis's jumpsuits and 
>more signed posters than you can shake a stick at, he has The rest of the 
>fifth of burbon that Elvis was drinking the night he died.

Speaking of Elvis, there's a pizza joint about a block away from where I 
live that's Elvis themed -- Elvis memorabilia on the walls, Elvis music 
piped through hidden speakers, and pizzas named after Elvis songs.  It's 
run by a middle-aged man who styles himself as Costa the Greek Elvis; he's 
been on TV doing his Elvis act from time to time, and hires himself out for 
private functions.

At the beginning of every year, the place is shut down for two weeks, so he 
can travel and perform at the Annual Elvis Revival Festival in the rural 
town of Parkes; this otherwise sleepy town (better known for the nearby 
CSIRO radio telescope) is literally taken over by Elvis fans and 
impersonators and becomes a Graceland in the Southern Hemisphere.

There's one thing that I really don't get about the pizzeria, 
though.  Everyone who works there is Greek (not surprising, since I live in 
one of the big Greek areas in Sydney), but they're also members of the same 
church -- some sort of happy-clapper Protestant church; pretty much every 
other Greek I've met is Orthodox.  And they speak of Elvis with the same 
hushed, reverent tones that they reserve for Jesus.  I imagine that they've 
got one of those stained-glass windows of the King that you see in Hard 
Rock Cafes around the world.



David M Jacobs
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http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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