The Stardust Casino Floor. August 16th 1977. Eighty People. Three Minutes. Nobody Orchestrated It.
On August 16th, 1977, when news reached the floor of the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas that Elvis Presley had died, something happened that nobody planned, nobody announced, and nobody photographed. A change booth worker named Dennis Pruett watched it from behind his glass booth and, reflexively, checked the clock. Three minutes and forty seconds. A woman named Rita Calhoun wrote about it to her daughter fourteen years later. The letter ended up on an Elvis fan forum after her death. The casino worker described it to a journalist in 1991. The journalist's piece was killed. The tape sat in a box until 2014. This is the full story of those three minutes and forty seconds. 🎵 Chapters: 00:00 – August 16th, 1977: The Casino Floor 02:30 – Rita Calhoun: The Woman At Machine 114 05:00 – When The Sound Changed 08:00 – The Wave Of Stillness 11:00 – Dennis Pruett: The Man Who Timed It 13:30 – Three Minutes And Forty Seconds 16:00 – "The World Noticed. Even There." Subscribe for more untold stories from music history every week.
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