An Elvis Presley Shrine At The Original Val's Halla

It was in the 1980's at the height of the Elvis is alive craze. At the time when he was being seen everywhere, even at Burger King. At the time I worked at an independent record store in Oak Park Il. named Val's Halla. Towards the back where we did a lot of our work we had an old non functioning bathroom. A lot of independent record stores were going out of business due to the conversion to cd's we needed a spark. Elvis died in a bathroom, I loved the sound of tinkling water, maybe if we built a shrine Elvis would pay us a visit. So we found an old fountain, some Elvis memorbilia and before you knew it we had an Elvis shire. Elvis never did show up but a lot of people stopped by the check our tribute out. Along with newspaper reporters, Wild Chicago and on his birthday channel 2 news did a live shot. We continued to operate where a lot failed although a couple of decades later Val's moved she is still in business. Visit her at;
239 Harrison St. Oak Park
708-524-1004
http://www.valshalla.com/

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