OTHER NEWS - Aug. 8, 1991
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Elvis Park in Japan Explored: Managers of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate are looking for Japanese investors for an $80-million theme park based in Tokyo and focused on Elvis and 1950s and ‘60s Americana. Plans for the Tokyo project call for a four- to six-acre domed park representing a 1950s American town with souvenir shops, theaters, nightclubs and exhibit halls. “We’re receiving such an enthusiastic response, I think we’ll have a deal put together and be in serious construction design within a year,” said Jack Soden, executive director of the Graceland division of Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. The Presley residence in Memphis, Tenn., draws more than 600,000 visitors a year.
