Elvis statue coming to German town where the King lived as a soldier
By MARCUS KLOECKNER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 23, 2021 KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Elvis Presley is set to return to a German town where he lived in the late 1950s as a U.S. Army private, in the form of a nearly 6-foot-tall bronze statue. The statue will be placed by August in Bad Nauheim on a pedestrian bridge spanning the aptly named Usa River, where Presley took part in a photo shoot in March 1959, town spokeswoman Linda Doengens said. To prepare for the statue’s arrival, the bridge’s vertical, postwar railings were replaced with decorative wrought-iron ones similar to wh...
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