Six degrees of Elvis

This is random. While writing the previous post I went to Wikipedia to do a little fact-checking on Bill Belew. A search for “Elvis jumpsuit” turned up 35 hits, the fifth of which (Relevance: 89.1%) was for Rick Saucedo.

Now, last month as I was compiling photos and writing little blurbs on the bikes I’ve owned over the years, the name Rick Saucedo popped into my mind when thinking about Kelly Clark (my 8th-grade crush whom I used to visit on my first 10-speed). She used to talk about him all the time: an Elvis-impersonator with a growing following in the greater Chicagoland area that her mom was either dating, or knew, or was tight with. I’m not sure what the actual connection was, but obviously I didn’t forget the name after nearly 30 years. So you can imagine my surprise when my search turned up his Wikipedia page. Who knew he was just getting started back then? I had no idea he’d still be on the scene. (Like an Ex-machine.)