Velvis

Our Velvis shrine started as a joke and has grown into a world wide phenomenon… well, sort of.

Velvis strarted as just another velvet Elvis in a back room in Tijuana. While doing extensive margarita research at several bars in Tijuana, purchasing him seemed like a good idea. We memorialized the transaction with a disposable camera. We hung that picture and several snapshots from the trip up the coast next to our velvet Elvis on a wall at Salvador Molly’s. A legend was born.

Soon, a couple of hair stylists from down the block offered to take Velvis to Las Vegas with them. Trips to Hawaii, New Orleans and Washington DC soon followed. We have the pictures to prove it. Now after Velvis World Tour ’08, we’re pretty sure we have the most traveled Velvet Elvis in the universe. In January of 08, Velvis went to Cusco and Macho Picchu in Peru, Easter Island, Samoa, Australia, Cambodia, China (where he posed with a real live Panda), Tibet, India (Taj Mahal, of course), the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania and Fez Morocco.

When Velvis isn’t traveling, you’ll find him hanging out (get it?) surrounded by all his pictures at Salvador Molly’s.