Elvis will be/would have been 77 on Sunday January 8, 2012.

Although there are no parades or official events planned for Las Vegas, one of the restaurants is going to serve a free dessert with his favorite flavors: banana pudding, peanut butter mousse, and grape jelly sauce.

Aside from the Elvis impersonators we see all over the place - not always decked out like The King, but you can recognize the hair - there are some permanent displays. There is a life-size Elvis statute at the LVH (aka the Las Vegas Hilton). It was called The International when Elvis performed there.

Three streets are named after Elvis here in Las Vegas: Elvis Presley Street, Elvis Presley Court, and Elvis Alive Drive. And pilgrims on the Elvis trail can go see the drug store where he picked up his prescriptions.

One of the exciting things to do is drive by the "Elvis House" at 2520 Castlesands Way. It's not for sure if he ever stayed there, but back when Elvis was performing at the International, the hotel owned this house for the use of the performers, and the likes of Dean Martin and Tanya Tucker did stay there. The hotel sold it to a private individual in 1974.

Here are some photos.

This is the side of the house that faces the street. The colored blocks are glass that glow in the living room.





Back of the house. The kitchen and living room are on this level.



Living room. Look closely at the carpet in the foreground, the circle is a trapdoor to a spiral staircase.





One of the two spiral staircases. This must have seemed very modern back in the day. This is in the master bedroom, going down to the master bath, which is a two story atrium arrangement.



Here is the sunken tub in the master bath. The lava rock wall includes a waterfall feature.



This pyramid sculpture wall is one of the original features:



The kitchen doesn't look like much in this picture, but there are double stainless refrigerators. The sink is salvaged from a hotel kitchen. You can see more of it by following the zillow.com link below.



The house sold for $435,000 in 2006 and is valued at $239,000 on Zillow.com. There are some more pictures there, worth looking at.