A small, out-of-the-way motel located in Kalama, Washington has the distinguish of being the location where the "King", Elvis Presley stopped and stayed on September 4, 1962. The Columbia Inn Motel can claim, "Elvis slept here", after the music icon stopped there on his way to the World's Fair in Seattle to start filming his new movie, "It Happened at the World's Fair."

Elvis and nine members of his Memphis Mafia left Los Angeles in the early morning hours of September 3, 1962, and headed north towards Portland, Oregon on their way to Seattle, Washington. The passed through Portland, crossed the Columbia River into Washington State, and stopped about thirty-five miles north of Portland, off from Highway 99, at the new Columbia Inn Motel, later renamed The Kalama River Inn; and stayed on the second floor in suite 219 / 220.

The King signed over 150 autographs for residents and posed for a million photographs mingling with the locals before his entourage continued to Seattle for the start of filming of Elvis's new movie It Happened at the World's Fair.