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    • Mar 19, 1957
    Elvis Presley puts down $1,000 to buy Graceland Mansion in Memphis. The deal is completed less than one week later, as Presley buys the property for $102,500
    Jun 26, 1957
    Elvis Presley sleeps for the first time at Graceland Mansion, his primary home for the remainder of his life
    Aug 31, 1957
    After 25 years in the same location, WLS' "National Barn Dance" emanates from Chicago's Eighth Street Theater for the last time. The show lasts three more years
    Jan 24, 1958
    The Hank Snow Music Center, an instrument shop, opens at 810 Church Street in Nashville. On hand for the festivities: Ernest Tubb and The Wilburn Brothers
    Jul 1, 1958
    The Ash Grove officially opens at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The club raises the profile of blues, folk and country acts, including Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Flatt & Scruggs and The Stoneman Family
    Jul 11, 1958
    Chuck Berry, a future member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, purchases a two-story house in St. Louis, Missouri, symbolic of his success with such songs as "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene" and "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)"
    Aug 31, 1959
    Riverside Rancho, formerly a live stomping ground for western swing's Spade Cooley, is deliberately burned to the ground, a training opportunity for Los Angeles firefighters
    Feb 9, 1960
    The Hollywood City Council holds the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among those honored in its initial installment: Hank Williams, Sonny James, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mercer, Lefty Frizzell, Gene Autry and Jimmy Wakely
    Mar 29, 1960
    Tootsie's Orchid Lounge opens on lower Broadway in Nashville, just around the corner from the Grand Ole Opry. The small, lavender bar becomes a hangout for the likes of Willie Nelson, Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran and Mel Tillis
    Nov 14, 1961
    Wynn Stewart and businessman Don Spafford open a Las Vegas club, Nashville Nevada. They call attention to the club's hours--it's open 24-hours-a-day--by dropping the key to the front door from an airplane into the desert



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