Elvis

[krolik]

He ain't dead.

But he has left the building.

[nllm_oo_mlln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH5SPsnaT8

that was the last song at the local roller skating rink back in the '80's.

The Mac Davis penned "A Little Less Conversation" still satisfies me too.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlxRvhCB_A

[ducatiz]

But he has left the building.

i grew up going to the movie theater where this saying started.

It was the Poplar Plaza theatre
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11355/photos/5710

One of the old fashioned two-screen art deco theatres -- each house had about 400 seats and both had a "cry room" upstairs so people could watch behind glass without disturbing the others.  The screens were HUGE back then.

The story is that people heard Elvis was upstairs watching a film and people starting freaking out -- the manager of the theatre started saying over the intercom "Elvis has left the building!  Elvis has left the building!" 

We were saying that when I was in 2nd grade way back when..

[kopfjäger]

^^^^

The phrase was first used by promoter Horace Lee Logan on December 15, 1956, near Shreveport, Louisiana, to plead with concert-goers not to leave a concert hall to try to see Elvis, as he had already left, and instead remain to see the other acts on the bill. The full quotation was:

"Alright, alright, Elvis has left the building. I've told you absolutely straight up to this point, you know that he has left the building; he left the stage and went out the back with the policeman and he is now gone from the building."

[ducatiz]

I assume it was repeated many times by the time it was said in Memphis .

I was always said around Memphis that the Plaza was the first place it was mentioned, but I can't find any documentation to that effect.

But like I said, we grew up with it.. lol.. and Elvis sightings around Memphis..