Wearing turtleneck before it's cool at Lauderdale Courts HD

[Greg1995]

Best quality. Enjoy!
Young and mad

[MikeFromHolland]

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Haven't seen it this big before. Thanks for sharing!



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[drjohncarpenter]

Best quality. Enjoy!
Young and mad

Classic early shot with Humes High friends Evan “Buzzy” Forbess and Farley Guy, my guess is circa March 1954.

This one is even better. He looked pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty darned good. He was only 16.





With friend Luther Nall, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis - circa summer 1951

[Greg1995]

Best quality. Enjoy!
Young and mad

Classic early shot with Humes High friends Evan “Buzzy” Forbess and Farley Guy, my guess is circa 1951-1952.

This one is even better. He looked pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty darned good. He was only 16.




With cousin Gene Smith, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis - circa summer 1951

Or maybe this one?

[drjohncarpenter]

Classic early shot with Humes High friends Evan “Buzzy” Forbess and Farley Guy, my guess is circa March 1954.

This one is even better. Elvis looked pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty darned good.

He was only 16.





With friend Luther Nall, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis - circa summer 1951

Or maybe this one?

That's a nice photo, but it's lesser quality than the one with Luther Nall, and Elvis isn't wearing a turtleneck, which I assume was the point of the topic.


For the curious, this is the correct attribution for your photo:





With cousin Tony Eugene "Gene" Smith, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis, circa 1951
Notes: this is taken in the same photo booth as the portrait with Luther. Elvis is wearing different clothes but his haircut is similar.
Gene Smith was 16 at the time of this photo, born 11-28-1934. He must have been very undersized for his age.

[Julian Grant]

With cousin Bobby Smith, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis, circa 1951
Note: this is the SAME booth as the one with Gene, but Elvis is wearing different clothes.

Billy Smith over on facebook "The Official Memphis Mafia Group" is saying this is Gene, not Bobby. I've had it as Bobby all these years
So it's really Gene? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1315238121887231/

[drjohncarpenter]

Billy Smith over on facebook "The Official Memphis Mafia Group" is saying this is Gene, not Bobby. I've had it as Bobby all these years
So it's really Gene? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1315238121887231/

The FB group is private, unfortunately. But I've changed my attribution.

In 1951:

- Bobby James Smith was about ten (born 8-01-1941).
- Tony Eugene "Gene" Smith was sixteen (born 11-28-1934).

This is why I always felt the other fellow was Bobby. But Billy would know better than any of us if that was his older brother.


Also, I can see the face more closely resembles Gene, as this 1956 photo makes clear:

560922_w Gene Smith en route to Memphis.jpg

With cousin Gene Smith, actor Nick Adams on plane bound for Memphis - Saturday, September 22, 1956





With cousin Tony Eugene "Gene" Smith, Loew's State photo booth, Memphis - circa 1951



https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102638587/tony-eugene-smith
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76162337/bobby-james-smith