January 4, 1977

845 WEST CHINO CANYON ROAD, PALM SPRINGS

January 4, 1977

Elvis, Ginger and Rosemary fly to Palm Springs.

“We landed at the Palm Springs airport near dawn. The glitz of Las Vegas was nowhere in sight, only the serene desert with spectacular mountains in the distance. We exited the plane and the group divided, most going on to a hotel while Elvis, one of his aides, Charlie, Rosemary, and I rode to Elvis’s home on Chino Canyon Drive.

I loved the house. It was a low, sprawling, Spanish-style white stucco home with a roof tiled in a warm terra-cotta color. The property was surrounded by a black iron fence.

“Not much yard,” Rosemary said as she noted the lack of grass.

Elvis laughed. “That’s why I had some of the rocks painted green.”

Excerpt From Elvis and Ginger