Elvis spent a lot of time in Florida and owned several homes in various regions of Florida. He has said that it was his adoptive home state and that he loved sp

Elvis spent a lot of time in Florida and owned several homes in various regions of Florida. He has said that it was his adoptive home state and that he loved spending time here. The thing to remember is the Florida that he knew was nothing like the Florida of today, it was literally a frontier. I was fortunate to grow up on the tail end of that frontier era as the 80's saw a massive land boom in Florida and by the 90's much of the old Florida was gone. There are still vestiges of it in North Florida, in the Gulf Hammock and down here in the Keys but it's nothing like it used to be.