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forestspringshc.com 20 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.17 POINT OF VIEW Last month, we asked readers to submit a photo of where they're a regular. Our favorite is this photo of Captain's Quarters, submitted by Kenn Burkhead. A BIT OF HISTORY FROM U OF L ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Forecastle is this month, which had us thinking about past Louisville concerts. When this photo was taken at the Rial- to Theater on Fourth Street in December 1955, Elvis Presley wasn't yet the "King of Rock and Roll." Instead, various Southern newspaper writers — he hadn't ventured north of the Mason-Dixon Line back then — knew him as the "King of Western Bop," a "young hillbilly singing star" and "the bobby-soxers' favorite country-music singer." His contract had been purchased by RCA Records just two weeks before and his first breakout hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," was less than a month away. Here Presley is performing as a member of the Hank Snow All-Star Jamboree at a special employee party thrown by the cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris. Supposedly, Elvis' body-slinging movements caused the company's president to try to have the bopster kicked off the stage. Less than a year later Presley would return to town, playing two shows at the Jefferson County Armory under a police edict that he couldn't move in "lewdly suggestive" ways — negotiated to mean side-to-side hip thrusting. Oddly enough, newsreel footage from the second show reveals a predomi- nantly middle-age to older audience. Were the teens locked up at home? — Jack Welch "Look, it's all these Republicans in Congress pretending they don't see what's going on. I know you're not dumb. The only thing these investigating committees need to be looking for is a damn backbone, right? And you know it's not gonna be Mitch McConnell 'cause he acts even more scared than he looks, and he looks like somebody done poked a turtle." — Cecily Strong during "Weekend Update" on SNL LOU NEWS THE BIT