Guy in the Store the other day was a retired Army Captain who at one time was stationed in Grafenwohr, Germany. I asked him if the Elvis stall was still there and he confirmed that it was. Here’s the story.
When he was in the Army stationed in Germany, Elvis spent some time at a training base Grafenwohr, Germany that I am familiar with. Elvis was in the 3rd Armored Division. I was stationed in Germany in the 1st Armored Division and my Battalion would go for a month or two of training “in the field” as they called it.
The highlight at Graf was a gold painted latrine stall where Elvis had written his initials and ETS (Estimated Time of Separation) from the Army on the wall. I often joke that the closest I have ever gotten to the rich and famous was this toilet stall/Elvis encounter.
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I tried Googling info on this but putting in “Elvis + toilet + Grafenwohr” just turned up a bevy of items about Elvis having died on a toilet (click here.) All jokes aside (e,g. my title above) that sure wasn’t any way for the King to have left this ole Heartbreak Hotel of life was it?