Middle-aged Presley fans still love him - fat and all
(UPI) United Press International
The Sun Bulletin **
May 25, 1977

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) - Elvis Presley and his female fans are growing middle-aged together - and the ladies are as adoring as ever.

Presley doesn't [doesn't] move as much as he did in the 1950s when he hit stardom as "Elvis the Pelvis"

But that didn't botherthe 13,500 fans who jammed into the Providence Civic Center Monday night.

Some among those who paid $10 to $15 for their 60 minutes of ecstasy complained Presley had gotten fat. Others said he didn't wiggle enough.

But they all loved him.

Decked out in a white jumpsuit covered with gold brocade and slit to the navel. Presley wqas the target of cameras, and binoculars - which were passed from seat to seat.

All he had to do was lift his left heel or raise two fingers in the air, and the women jumped to their feet, screaming "Elvis"

I've screamed more for him in an hour than I've screamed in a lifetime, said Cathy Kanarian, 28, a Providence housewife

Screaming was the least of it.

Fans clawed past one another, grabbing souvenir nylon scarves which Presley wiped across his sweaty brow, then flung casually intothe audience.

Mrs. Kanarian's 29-year-old husband, Donald, displayed red scratch marks on both arms after he fought through the crowd to retrieve a scarf for his wife's birthday present.

"One girl crawled over my back" he said.

One member of a traveling Presley fan club. Marietta Traficante, 39, drove five hours from Woodstock, N.Y. to buy concert tickets.

** This article appeared on the Sun Bulletin newspaper even thou is reviewing the concert from Providence a few days earlier.

Courtesy of Francesc Lopez