On February 10, 1956, Elvis Presley played four shows at the Carolina Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina. A preserved transcription of the next day’s Charlotte News report says that about 6,000 people entered the theatre and roughly 1,000 more were turned away. The ticket line for the 9 p.m. show ran from the box office along Tryon Street to Fifth Street, while another line reached Sixth Street and continued partway toward College Street.\n\nThe important detail is not the generic claim that teenagers were excited. It is the physical geography of two ticket lines bending around city blocks. A box office serving one buyer at a time converted Presley’s sudden popularity into ordered waiting on the pavement. When tickets ran out, even people who had waited could be left outside.\n\nThe inherited candidate placed a 1956 Elvis ticket queue in Memphis. The direct record located for formal completion concerns the same performer, year and waiting target—concert tickets—but in Charlotte. The place has been corrected with the old record retained in history. The article follows the contemporary newspaper’s route and attendance figures rather than manufacturing a line from the later legend of “Elvis mania.”