1956 - Chattanooga, , Tennessee lunch counter

[packman]

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a young singer is sitting at the counter waiting for his bacon and eggs while a black lady, who is not permitted to be seated at the lunch counter, waits for her sandwich.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Whoever he is, he'll probably never amount to anything.

If I'm not mistaken, I've seen other pictures taken at this setting. I think this is the Chattanooga railroad station, and the unidentified diner is waiting for a train.

I looked here. I could be wrong.

ETA: this was the exhibit: Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer

October 23, 2010, through January 23, 2011
Second Floor
Visit the website

[Go Vols]

2. It is Elvis

scroll down here: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/08/its-an-american-thing/

Segregated Lunch Counter: Elvis Presley waits for his plate of bacon and eggs at a railroad station lunch counter while a woman waits for her sandwich in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1956.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. her right arm ... ? lighting ... ? unfortunate angle ... ? is that a hook ... ?

[belcffub]

5. looks like

she is holding a purse...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. perhaps, upon looking further appears to be the hook to cordon off the waiting line.

[In_The_Wind]

4. He was a handsome man when he was young.

[jwirr]

7. I wonder if there was any civil rights connection with this photo at the time. Was it taken to

illustrate this point?

[In_The_Wind]

8. It doesn't seem to be connected.

http://www.rockpaperphoto.com/alfred-wertheimer-105032-elvis-presley
While waiting for a train to take him from Chattanooga to Memphis, a trip of some 400 miles, Elvis sits at a lunch counter to have some breakfast. The woman standing has ordered a sandwich for which she is waiting, but is not permitted to sit at the counter.