⚡ONE NIGHT IN ELVIS' LIFE⚡
ELVIS with members of the British fan club in Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Hilton International Hotel, on September 4, 1972 (before his dinner show that night, 8:15pm) + some other interesting things about that night, including 'Aloha From Hawaii' press conference N.1, the Aug-Sept 1972, Vegas season, and an overview on Elvis' 60s/70s fandom outside U.S.
The Elvis fans: Janet Barker, Alan Trower and Tony Prince, from England, and Gitt Nymand and May Britt Berlind, from Sweden.
Below is a picture of Tony Prince with EP on the same day, September 4, 1972. Tony appears in the movie "Elvis: That's The Way It Is", the original/theatrical version from 1970.
That was Elvis' closing night at the Hilton - I love how he's wearing his 'Aloha' necklace. I call it that way because he wore it on the two 'Aloha from Hawaii' press conferences in 1972. Actually, that's because the first 'Aloha From Hawaii' press conference was held that very night, between Elvis' dinner and midnight concerts, at the Hilton Hotel. Note that EP is seeing at first wearing a black jacket. His fan said he met with the fans then quickly went into his dressing room and came back to talk to them again when he was no longer wearing the black jacket (and we can see he is no loner wearing the necklace too), so he probably was making time to change to his first (dinner) concert while at the same time he was meeting his fans.
That means on September 4, 1972, Elvis schedule included at least: Performing two hour-long concerts, meeting his fans, giving all the attention he was known to give to them, and talking to the press about his upcoming big, historical concert for 1973. I'm tired just talking about it! He is indeed the King.⚡ Also, talk about how Elvis changed his outfit in a single day! My god! All breathtaking outfits tho. ♥
This is Elvis during the first 'Aloha From Hawaii' Press Conference - September 4, 1972 – at the Las Vegas Hilton International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. This press conference was held between his dinner and midnight concerts.
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AUG 4 - SEPT 4, 1972, VEGAS SEASON
Elvis opened his 7th season in Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Hilton International Hotel, holding two shows every day for a month, (except for the opening night when he performed only one evening concert) beginning in August 4th. The season ended on September 4th, 1972.
Pictures 1-5: Opening concert, August 4, 1972. EP's wearing his “White two-piece suit with aqua pockets” with the Turquoise Concho suit belt. Pictures 6-7: Closing concert, September 4, 1972. Elvis is wearing his "Lucky Suit" (A.K.A "Blue Swirl/Clover Leaf" jumpsuit) with the Blue Macrame belt.
I love how he begins and closes this engagement wearing blue. ♥
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Here are some details of the fan meeting during Elvis' closing night at the Hilton Hotel in Sept 4, 1972, as provided by Rex Martin*:
Todd [one of the European fans] and the others was sitting in Colonel Parker's booth (and the next one), when Parker came and took them thru a side door to the left of the showrooms stage. Just after this Tom Diskin talked to two girls sitting next to the stage (far right of centre); he asked them where I was sitting. I was with Virginia Coons and the girls front row balcony (far right), under the funky angels.
Tom [Diskin] waved for me to meet him downstairs. We went through a door between Emelio's office, and the showroom entrance. Into the lounge (behind and below the back of the showrooms stage). I arrived a few minutes after Todd's party. A few minutes later, Elvis walked in. A small B&W TV was monitoring the opening acts, up high in the lounge (no sound); the Sweets Inspirations was on most of the time we were backstage (for about 8 minutes in total). During the meeting Elvis left the room for a very short time (his dressing room was a door almost opposite the lounge). He returned clutching 6 folded Emerald Green Scarfs, and had removed his jacket.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Note: One thing came to my mind. Considering how Elvis was dressed for the 2nd 'Aloha From Hawaii' press conference, held in the Hilton Hawaiian Village at Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 20, 1972, I guess during the fan meeting at the Hilton Hotel he was pretty much dressed up and ready for the first 'Aloha' press conference to be held that same day but last minute he might have decided to change his outfit from the black one to the white one he actually wore for the 1st 'Aloha' press conference. It looks like he 'saved' (?) that one dark suit for the Hawaii press conference because he is dressed that day pretty much the same way he was during the fan meeting on Sept 4, as we can see in the pictures. Or maybe, most likely, he was just trying the outfit options (wardrobe test) for the press conferences before he met the European fans in Vegas that September 4, 1972 evening, and opted for the white one to the 1st 'Aloha' press conference in the end. Those are just my theories, I don't know. Those similar outfits may confuse the fans on the date the pictures were taken, if does for me. 🫠
Aloha From Hawaii Press Conference - November 20, 1972 – Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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⭐ About Rex Martin, Elvis' "super fan" and how he helped disseminating Elvis to the fans outside U.S. in the 60s/70s⭐
Back in the days when internet was not even in people's imaginary, the passionate Elvis fans that got to be closer to their idol were the responsible ones for keeping his other fans outside US updated about what was going on in the King's life/career.
Side note: That's so interesting. I remember I saw an interview with Ernst Jorgensen (one of the responsible people, the top one actually, for the Elvis FTD albums. He's an Elvis expert, a long term fan, and he's also a Grammy-nominated reissue producer, dedicated archivist, seasoned researcher and acclaimed author of one of the pivotal books to Elvis Presley's legacy, 'A Life in Music', which is an essencial book on Elvis' whole career, all the recording sessions and every detail you can possibly imagine), and in that one interview, Ernst spoke about the importance of Elvis' musical films, as they were the only way for fans outside the United States to get to know Elvis' music and performance in the 60s, which is very interesting since many people criticize Elvis' movie career.
Without those fans, those passionate fans that willingly took it as a delightful task to keep the fans outside the US updated about EP's career, maybe Elvis wouldn't be so big outside US (oh, that's not possible. No, he would be big regardless of the amount of info people got about him in the 50s-70s, actually, but his fan base maybe would have been considerably smaller during those decades, outside America, considering people wouldn't be 'fed' with news about him so frequently). Rex Martin was this one person who did feed the England/European fans with news about Elvis Presley.
Rex Martin saw Elvis in concert more than 60 times and, as one of the most influential publishers in the Elvis world, he amassed an incredible photo and audio-visual library. Rex Martin and his legendary publication, the Worldwide Elvis News Service Weekly, were an integral part of how fans "got their Elvis news" in the late 1960s and 1970s. The 'Weekly News Service' represented a fundamental shift in both the frequency and currency of fan's access to Elvis news around the world.
Source: https://www.elvisinfonet.com/rexmartin_info.html
REX MARTIN'S - ELVIS PRESLEY WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE - August 1971 issues.
Sadly, Rex passed away in 2008. Rest in peace, Rex. I'm sure there's lots of Elvis fans that are profoundly grateful for all you've done. ♥
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P.S.:This post begun only with the intention of publishing Elvis meeting with his fans in September 4th, 1972. That was the only thing I wanted to share: the pictures of the fan meeting. Then you read and you read, and one thing led to another and... now the post includes, the fan meeting, Elvis' engagement at the Hilton on Aug to Sept 1972, his European fans and how important Elvis' movies were to the fans outside U.S. and the 'Aloha from Hawaii' press conference N°1. Phew. That is what it means being an Elvis fan. You have endless topics to research and talk about. If I continue digging deeper into it, there's many other things to talk about on each of those subjects. I know it for sure, actually. I simply wrote an overall look on things.
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Slumber Party: Part Two
Pairing: Dean Winchester x Female!Reader
Word Count: ~1.9k
Warnings: canon angst and violence
Summary: Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West making an appearance, Charlie coming to visit, and Castiel getting used to being human, oh my! Ding Dong, the witch is dead!
Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Supernatural. All credit goes to their respective owners. Any and all comments on these are appreciated.
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It's not long until Charlie shows up, and she walks inside the Bunker with a wide smile on her face. Maryann has been put down for a nap, and Joanna is content with playing with Zeus in her room.
"Hey, I'm having a birthday party for Joanna tonight. You're coming, right?"
"I wouldn't miss it for the world," she beams.
"Thank you for coming," Sam says.
"Not a problem, especially since I got fired last week."
"What happened?"
"It turns out the company I work for was outsourcing to child labor, so I took a big Wikileak all over that. It's cool, though. It's given me more time to focus on my hobbies like LARPing, macrame, and hunting."
"Excuse me?" Sam and Dean say at the same time.
"You didn't know? I thought Y/N would have told you."
"You knew about this?" Dean asks you.
"I might have," you wince. "I knew how you'd react, but she's been really good about it. She's being safe."
"Yeah. Plus, it was just a couple of little cases. I took down a teenage vampire and a ghost, which sounds like a Y.A. novel if you say it out loud."
"How did it go?" Sam asks, still concerned.
"It was... intense. I wish hunting was more magical, you know?" Sam and Dean look confused, and she moves on. "Never mind. So, where is this Commodore 64 of yours?"
Sam escorts her back to the command center with the big computer, and she gasps in amazement. She rushes over to the computer and begins messing with it to see if she can try and figure it out.
"Sweet Ada Lovelace. This thing belongs in a museum. I mean, it's got encryption software. It seems to be powered by something magical. It's kind of an alarm system. Maybe for global badness? This computer is what locked this place down."
"Can we use it to track angels?"
"Let me see what I can do." Charlie is a master at technology, so she hooks up all kinds of wires and switches that are hooked up to her laptop. "Alright. It took some doing, but now we can download it. This beast has all the Men of Letters files."
"It's a start. Thank you, Charlie. This is great."
Sam and Dean look at each other, and it's clear they want to ask her something.
"So, you've been hunting... alone?"
"I know," she sighs. "Not a good idea, according to the 'Supernatural' books."
"You really can't delete those from the Internet?" Sam asks, annoyed.
"Not even I can do that."
"Where do you even find them?"
"A top-secret place I call Amazon," she says with a cheeky grin. "Someone uploaded all the unpublished works. I thought it was fanfic at first, but it was clearly Edlund's work."
"Who uploaded it?"
"I don't know. Their screen name was beckywinchester176. Ring a bell?"
You can't help but let out a loud cackle. Sam gives you the biggest bitch face, but you can't help but continue to laugh.
"Remember when you got married to her?" you giggle.
"Keep it up, Y/N," Sam nods in annoyance.
Charlie types on her laptop only to huff out in frustration
"Ugh, these files are encrypted. This is gonna take a while. So, takeout, sleepover, and braid each other's hair?"
"I have an idea," Sam smiles.
Since Dean got Game of Thrones for Sam, Dean thought it would be best to watch some of that with Charlie since she is an avid watcher. Sam grabs some books and files regarding what might be on that computer and sits next to the bed to read while Dean and Charlie watch their show. You're sitting at the head of the bed on your own laptop, looking at decorations for Joanna's birthday party. You need to grab stuff with same-day shipping so it'll be here before the end of the day.
Dean and Charlie watch three episodes before deciding that it's a good time for a break.
"Wow. That Joffrey's a dick," Dean scoffs.
"Oh, you have no idea. Wait until he--"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," Sam stutters. "Spoilers! I haven't read all the books yet."
"You're reading the books?"
"Yes, Dean, I like to read books. You know, the one without pictures?"
Dean rolls his eyes, and Charlie shifts on the bed a few times to get a feel of the mattress.
"Man, this bed is about as comfortable as a brick. Any plans on moving in anytime soon?"
"I am moved in. This is just my style."
"Yeah, this is his style," Dean rolls his eyes.
"I'm sorry I haven't hung up the 'Hang in there, kitty' poster yet, Dean. Feel free to redecorate."
"So, what, our home's not good enough for the 'Hang in there, kitty' poster?"
"This isn't our home. This is where we work."
"You bet your ass this is our home," you snap at him. "This is the place where we're going to raise our kids. There is nowhere I'd rather be, so you better get used to living here. This is your home because we're going to make it our home. Am I making myself clear?"
"Okay," Charlie clears her throat and stands up. "We should all take a breather."
"I'm gonna go get us some more beers. How about that?" Dean says and leaves the room immediately.
"So, Charlie, what was that about how hunting isn't magical?" Sam asks.
"Saving people, hunting things, the family business, right? I am down, but I was raised on Tolkien, man. I mean, where is all this?" She holds up the Game of Thrones disc. "Where are my White Walkers and my volcano and magic ring to throw in the damn thing? Where's my quest?"
"Magic quests suck. Trust me," Sam sighs.
"I'm pretty magical myself," you say. "I can give you magical quests if you want."
"The download should be done by now."
You three meet Dean in the kitchen, and the four of you head down to the command center to check on the computer. As soon as you enter, you notice the shelving units have moved, and no one was down here to do that.
"What the hell?" you say.
You walk close and see some sort of gray stuff on the wall behind the shelving units. Sam and Dean move them out of the way to reveal two gray pods on the wall. Sam pulls his gun out while Dean pulls out his knife. He cuts part of the way through one pod, and an arm falls out. Charlie yelps out and you put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Dean cuts the rest of the way, and a woman falls out of it and onto the ground.
You're not sure what to make of this. Who the hell is this woman? She's only out for ten minutes, and when she comes to, everything starts to make sense. Her name is Dorothy, like from The Wizard of Oz. Sam found her file pretty easily, and as he was reading it, Dorothy started to explain why she was there and what was going on.
The Wicked Witch of the West was destroying Oz so badly that she was sent to your world as punishment. In turn, that also sent Dorothy here to kill her, but they both ended up being stuck in "cryosleep", which is what those gray pods are. The other pod is sliced open, so the witch is somewhere in the Bunker looking for whatever she needs to return home.
You conjure up a big ball of magic and shoot it out of the room knowing it will be sent to your kids' rooms. Their rooms will be spelled so that the witch won't be able to get in and harm them. When Dorothy sees you using magic, she becomes very afraid of you.
"Whoa, calm down. I'm not a bad witch," you quickly say. "Think of me as Glinda, the good witch."
That seems to ease her fear.
"Holy shit!" Charlie gasps as she reads her file. "The first case investigated in this bunker involved Dorothy. She and the witch came into this room, and they never came out. This will never stop blowing my mind!"
"Okay, pace yourself, Toto," Dean rolls his eyes.
"Oz is real. It's part of the fairy world," Dorothy says. "We have to find her."
"No, we have to talk before anyone does anything, okay?"
"Talk? Typical Men of Letters, standing around, and having a nice, little chat with your noses buried in your books while your little secretary takes notes," she scoffs and stands up.
"We're hunters."
"Who are you calling a secretary?" Charlie scoffs.
"You're not a secretary? You're a Woman of Letters? How long have I been out?"
"That's why we need to talk. You've been 'out' for over seventy-five years. Now, according to our files, you came here to kill the wicked witch and then disappeared. What happened?"
"We couldn't find a way to kill her, so I did the only thing that I could. A binding spell that came at a price--her soul with mine. I've been frozen with the witch all this time. She can't be killed, and if I'm awake, then so is she."
"Wait, if she's here, why didn't she kill you?" Sam wonders.
"She can't."
"You're protected by the Witch of the North's kiss. It's from the books," Charlie says.
"Forget the books," Dorothy rolls her eyes. "They're not important. I'm protected. You four aren't, and neither are the kids you're trying to protect. Now, the witch came here looking for something. I have no idea what it is, but we have to find her before she finds it."
"Don't worry about my kids. Let me worry about them," you say and cross your arms.
You're not worried about your kids getting hurt because you've spelled the room. Not even the strongest magic can penetrate because you will it so. The only thing that can overpower it is you, and that's a fact.
"Alright," Dean raises his hands, "Charlie, dig into the files. See if you can find anything that puts a dent in a witch. Sam, Y/N, and I will have a look-see."
"I'll stay with Charlie. She might need some help," you offer, and Dean nods.
"I'm helping you," Dorothy demands.
"I don't doubt it. For right now, why don't you rest up and help the smartest person in the room?" Sam says and points to Charlie.
The brothers leave you three alone, and Charlie looks at Dorothy with a shy smile.
"So... big fan. Ozma of Oz--"
"Is a total ass," Dorothy cuts her off.
"You were much nicer in the books," Charlie pouts.
"Those books are the ravings of a sad, old man who is also my father."
"Wait, your dad was L. Frank Baum?" you ask in interest.
"A Man of Letters. Another glorified librarian if you ask me."
"Hey, these guys may have been sexist, but like all librarians, they were wicked smart, too. The dude who was here when you first came in, Haggerty, kept your case file open and worked it every day until he retired. Obviously, he never found you, but if you took five seconds to read, he did find a way to fight the Wicked Witch. Do you remember the poppy fields in the first book?"
"That's not actually how it happened. It was much bloodier."
"Stop ruining my childhood," Charlie groans. "Do you remember the poppies?" Dorothy nods twice. "Haggerty made a deal with a fairy and got some poppy extract. I'm gonna get some bullets from the gun range and make some poppy bullets. So, are you coming or what?"
Charlie leaves without waiting for an answer, and you and Dorothy follow her to the gun range. When you get there, you three work hard in making the bullets. Charlie finishes with one gun and hands it to you, but you push her hand away with a chuckle.
"Sweetheart, I am the gun. You need it more than me."
"Right," she chuckles.
There are four guns with poppy bullets made, and three bullets for each gun since there weren't a lot of poppies, to begin with. Once you have all four guns, you set out to find the brothers.
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