154:. Markham remembered it as the day that "Ruined my life". Markham even got the chance to meet Presley: "I walked back in there and looked up and thereโs Elvis Presley. I visited with him. He wanted to know where the bathroom was, and we went to the bathroom. Actually, his first words were, 'Do you know where a guy can take a piss around here?' I said, 'Yeah, follow me'." Markham spent much of his childhood on the North side of Tulsa going into clubs underage with a note from his parents, which allowed him to see
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