Elvis Presley

Elvis the Hero?
It sounds like a tall tale, but it isn't. Elvis Presley, still clad in his high-collared jumpsuit from a concert in Des Moines, stopped a confrontation between teens at the Skylane Standard gas station on the corner of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road in June 1977. Elvis was in Madison for a Dane County Coliseum concert to happen later that night, when he asked the limo driver to stop because he saw two men hassling La Follette High School junior Keith Lowry, whose father owned the service station. Despite protestations from others in the car, Elvis jumped from the vehicle, and walked up and tapped one of the young men on the shoulder, prompting the two to run from the scene. Elvis got back in the car and laughed. "Did you see the looks on their faces?" he said. Presley died two months later.

Kitty Dunn and Jonathan Suttin of WMMM-FM want to put a plaque at the corner of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road, to commemorate the spot where, in April 1977, Elvis leapt from his limo to help break up a fight at the Skylane Standard Station. The best part: he was still wearing his blue jumpsuit from a show earlier that night in Iowa.