Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 1, 1992                   TAG: 9203030361
SECTION: HORIZON                    PAGE: E-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Ron Brown
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

IT WAS A FREER, HAPPIER TIME WHEN THE KING RULED

Elvis reminds me of my squealing, Noxema-faced sisters and their bobby-soxed friends.

He was the 1950s to Lexington.

A time when children played without fear in their yards and walked unaccompanied to the neighborhood stores alone.

And teen-age girls held hands joyfully and danced together as I bolted down Ovaltine chocolate drinks because I was too skinny. (Believe it or not)

It was a time when a surly operator convinced me that the telephone was just a passing fancy and that she had no time for children.

And we still rode each week to Grandma's house for dinner with our country cousins.

I sometimes played Rin Tin Tin with my sometimes ill-mannered Boston terrier, Danny.

I guess that's why I always like Elvis' song "Hound Dog."