Elvis Presley's Mama's Sewing Machine

I buy and sell vintage sewing machines, which is a fancy way of saying that I trade in second, third and fifth hand small appliances. Now, there is only so much you really say about an old appliance such as a sewing machine: It's a Singer; It runs; It makes a nice stitch and it was made in 1940 something.

This got dull after a while, and my postings looked like all the other vintage sewing machine postings on Craigslist. So,I felt that, a little creativity was called for to make my postings stand out. A 15-91 becomes "One Tough  S.O.B. of a Sewing Machine" and an old straight stitcher, can be posted as "your Grandmother's Sewing machine". It helps sales and reduces the tedium of posting the same ad for the same machine in several different places.

But, occasionally, it's not enough to come up with eye catching headlines. Something inside me demands a more free wheeling approach, till I become like Kipling's Emmanuel Pyecroft, "manufacturin' lies to correspond". This is one of my favorite ones, which I have, so far, managed to refrain from posting........

                               ELVIS PRESLEY'S MAMA'S SEWING MACHINE

In his song 'The Elvis Presley Blues" Jimmy Buffet, a fellow Mississippian, says that Elvis was "Just a country boy, who put a shirt that his mother made and he went on the air". ( He also said, in 'Oyster and Pearls' that Elvis, "was the only man from north-east Mississippi, who could shake his hips and still be loved by red necks, cops and hippies", which is a really great lyric if you ask me.) But I digress....back to the matter at hand:

So, we know that Elvis's mother had a sewing machine, and likely she sewed him a shirt on it, because that was common thing for mothers to do, back in the early 50's. Now, that shirt, if still exists, is, no doubt, in a museum somewhere. But where is the sewing machine? Could this 1940's Canadian made model 15, have found it's way down to the Magnolia state, just in time to help launch the career of the greatest singer of all time? Could this Singer have sewn that shirt? And if it did, how did it find it's way to BC? Could this sewing machine be a Canadian, rock and roll historical treasure?

These are questions that I do not know the answers to.  But, I have a sewing machine. It runs, it makes a good stitch, and it was made in the 1940's.......and, anything is possible.......