Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
If Ken Sacharin s mapping project is as entertaining as he is, it s worth a download for that alone.
After all, his tagline reads If you re not part of the solution, you re in colloidal suspension.
A Memphis native, Sacharin s parents were married in Memphis by Elvis Presley s upstairs landlord in the late 1940s. Their rabbi owned the house, and rented the bottom unit to the Presleys, he explained. Elvis was a Shabbos Goy sometimes. The King even paid one of Sacharin s schoolmates to play racquetball with him at Graceland, Sacharin recalled.
By his own admission, however, none of this explains why Sacharin is qualified to sift and geo-tag Manhattan s past. I m not, really, he maintains. But I have a lot of time on my hands.