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I don't know whether Garrett plans a race review, but here's the top ten in tomorrow's lineup for the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix: 1 Mark Martin (55) 2 Kasey Kahne (5) 3 Jimmie Johnson (48) 4 Kyle Busch (18) 5 Jeff Gordon (24) 6 Tony Stewart (14) 7 Kevin Harvick (29) 8 Denny Hamlin (11) 9 Matt Kenseth (20) 10 Ryan Newman (39) You can get the full lineup here. The race starts at 3 PM ET.

I'm working my way through season 2 at the moment, hence why I was looking at the fairgrounds again. When I got to 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough' I was reminded of another location I needed to find: Hazzard Station. From a different angle it looks like there's an actual railroad next to it, so I thought I'd follow the railroad at Pine Street, and it wasn't long before I found a building matching the distinctive roofline above. It's located parallel to the main railroad, just south of Newhall Avenue, and even has a short (200 yard) section of track with a small steam engine (which I've since found used to belong to Gene Autry). A closer look with Street View confirmed I had the right building. A Panoramio picture gives a better view, and tells us that it's the former Saugus Station building which is now home to the SCV (Santa Clarita Valley) Historical Society. Normally that would be the end of the story, but in this case it isn't, because the old station building was only moved to its present location in mid-1980, ie. after 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough' was filmed. From the SCV website: The Saugus Station, built in 1887, was saved from demolition in 1980, when it became the first structure to be moved to Heritage Junction Historic Park, operated by the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society at William S. Hart Park in Newhall — two miles south of the train station's original location. I followed the line north and found the original location just south of Drayton Street on Railroad Avenue. For those of you paying attention, you'll remember that Drayton Street was the location of the German Auto Center where the patrol car was swapped for an ambulance in 'Deputy Dukes' - you can remind yourselves here. The aerial view below is from 1977. Just for comparison, I'm including this picture of the building in its original location that I found on the SCV's comprehensive website. It's dated 1965, but gives a very similar view to the screengrab that started this post. The depot closed in 1978, so it had only been shut for about a year when Dukes was filmed. The SCV website has a larger version of this picture with additional information here and some pictures of the station being moved here. There's also another interesting picture I found on Flickr. It's dated 1980, just before the move, and clearly shows the "SAVE OUR STATION!" signs on the front of the building.

Isn't it typical? I spent ages looking for a good shot of the generic version of the County Sheriff badge and then find another almost straight away. The screengrab below is from the 1994 Corey Eubanks movie 'Forced to Kill'. I spotted it when is was getting pictures of the post-Dukes Boar's Nest building for the Valencia Oaks Movie Ranch thread. I wonder if there are any more recent movies or TV shows that use it. As promised above, my Fan Art version of the 'Reunion' patrol car has now been posted in the Rosco's Patrol Car thread.

I recently found better reference pictures for the center of the 'Reunion' patrol car badge, and promised to do a Fan Art version of it, so here it is. We've seen the 1977/78 Dodge Monacos in Hazzard livery before, but this one has a few changes. As well as the new badge, it also has A-pillar spotlights and new-style license plates on the front and back. You can see a bit more about the new badge here.

I've been through most of season 3, and these are the best shots I've got so far. If you want to check for yourself, they're all from the last 10 minutes of 'Good Neighbors, Duke'. The first shows the pinstriping on the front fender. This is the clearest shot I could get of truck graphic on the door. It also shows the lightbar support. Here's a longer shot that shows the bottom of the door graphic and some more of the pinstriping. The last one is just for a close-up of the striping behind the door.

I'm going back in time here. This song was originally written and performed in 1931, but the version in the video is from 1955. For those of you not familiar with Noël Coward as a playwright, composer, director and singer, maybe you'll remember him as Mr. Bridger in the original of 'The Italian Job'.

The screengrab above is the only one of the truck graphics that I currently have, but I'll keep an eye out for other details. I think a hand-painted sign would finish the truck nicely, because the ones on the show were done that way.

I read online that the Boar's Nest building was blown up in a 1994 movie called 'Forced to Kill'. I looked it up on IMDb, and found it stars Dukes stuntman Corey Eubanks, who also wrote and produced it. It also features Mickey Jones (B.B. Davenport in 'Granny Annie') and a brief appearance of fellow Dukes stuntman Al Wyatt Jr. Other stars include Michael Ironside ('Top Gun', 'Total Recall' etc.), Don Swayze (Patrick's brother), and Rance and Clint Howard (Ron's father and brother). I was surprised to discover the full movie on YouTube, but it's R-rated, so I won't post a link. What I will do is post a link to a short video featuring Corey talking about a stunt for the movie. The stunt shown takes place next to the Boar's Nest, but it's not visible in this clip: The Boar's Nest building does appear very briefly near the end of the movie, but, contrary to the report I read, only a vehicle blows up and not the building. I managed to get a couple of grabs which show it to be in a very rundown state; the roof is sagging and it looks like it's been left open to the elements. Knowing that the Google Earth timeline feature goes back to 1994 in this area, I decided to check it out. The image below is dated June 1st 1994, and shows a clear lot where the Boar's Nest once stood ("5" on the map). If the Boar's Nest was blown up, it must've been between the filming of 'Forced to Kill' and 1/6/94 - I'll keep looking!

I've recently found myself watching the odd episode of 'Murder She Wrote', usually when there's a guest actor I want to see. For some reason, the TV channel that shows them here doesn't seem to show them in order, so it can be a bit hit and miss. The other day I got lucky, because the episode was 'The Coal Miner's Slaughter' (a play on the name of Loretta Lynn's autobiography). The name rang a bell because I'd mentioned it recently in the trivia thread. Loretta Lynn wasn't in it, but country singer and celebrity speed trap victim Hoyt Axton played the Sheriff. Toward the end of the episode I spotted a familiar sight: the Valencia Oaks Duke Farm. Sorry for the slightly blurry grabs - they're from a TV recording and not the usual DVD quality. It's easy to miss because there are only a few long shots, and they're from different angles to the ones used in Dukes. Here it is from the other side. This episode dates from 1988 - about two years after 'Knight Rider' set fire to the place (see above). As you can see, the front has a small fence and is obscured by trees. It's quite possible that the fire damage wasn't repaired, because the rest of the building doesn't look like it's in a great state of repair. Here's Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) approaching the old kitchen door. I didn't recognize any of the interior shots, so I'm not sure if it had been remodeled, or if they were filmed elsewhere. Now for the pièce de résistance of the episode. The building's resident was Eben Connors, played by Denver Pyle. It must've been strange for him going back there three years after Dukes finished. The main picture below shows him walking around the barn. I've inset a better picture of him with his on-screen granddaughter Molly Connors, played by a young Megan Mullally of 'Will & Grace' fame.

Don't you turn 18 on that day too?

Milk Duds From 'The Big Bang Theory' : Sheldon: Milk Duds, with their self-deprecating name and remarkably mild flavour, are the most apologetic of the boxed candies. Raj: Junior Mints are pretty apologetic. Sheldon: You're embarrassing yourself.

I had a choice of "dog" songs, but eventually decided on this one from 1978: The song is about the work of British artist L.S. Lowry who was known for his paintings of industrial scenes and characteristic figures. You can see examples of his work throughout the video. In case anyone's wondering, "sparking clogs" were wooden clogs with metal bits in their soles to make them last longer. If you kicked them on the ground they'd make sparks. Girls in the mills had to work barefoot to prevent the risk of a fire or explosion. The painting below is 'Going to the Match' from 1953.

I have one of these too. It's called the "Race Day General", and I think they only made 1000 of them. They come up on Ebay from time to time.

If that's the case then they shouldn't abuse the DMCA. I can see the privacy issue, but I think it was an afterthought. I still don't see where NASCAR gets the right to make that decision.

Since I posted the picture above I've been trying to track down some better reference pictures for the center of these logos. Then HNet member Jake01 suggested a few more sources to check. Surprisingly, the logo on the right (above) seems to have been a fairly stock police logo for movies and TV shows in the '70s and '80s - I say surprisingly because I've never noticed before. The first example is from the 1974 movie 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry'. The logo appears on the black and white patrol cars, mainly seen in the second half of the movie. Although I could tell it was the same logo, it was hard to get a clear shot of the ones on the cars. The picture below is taken from a brief shot of the entrance to the sheriff's office. Thanks to another one of Jake's suggestions I watched the 1990 movie 'Spaced Invaders' starring Douglas Barr from 'The Fall Guy'. The picture below is the best I could get, and while I can again tell it's the same logo, I couldn't make out any more detail. I even found a second appearance in 'The Fall Guy' in the episode 'Mighty Myron' (S02E05). Again, no more details are visible. The Sheriff in the center is Clifton James aka. Sheriff Lester Crabb from 'Treasure of Hazzard'. In the end I went back to Google Images, and eventually found a long-finished Ebay auction for a movie prop of a very similar logo. Finally I was able to make out the detail on the building and see that the text under the shield says "PROBONO PUBLICO" (technically it should be "PRO BONO PUBLICO", "For the public good" in Latin, but I copied the on-screen spacing). Based on the new information I've already updated the Roseville patrol car in the Fan Art section, and will be adding a 'Reunion' patrol car very soon. Because the logos come out quite small on the Fan Art cars, I've made larger versions of the three different logos (below).

I'm looking forward to seeing this transformation. It looks like you got lucky with truck as it already has the right cab lights and a similar lightbar to Cooter's wrecker. Unlike the blue and white tow trucks, the yellow one had its graphics painted on directly. It also had some interesting pinstripe swirls around the cab:

Since last night's crash, NASCAR has been criticized for blocking a video on YouTube taken by one of the fans in the crowd. They used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to block the video on copyright grounds just minutes after it was uploaded. YouTube have subsquently reversed the ban, and NASCAR have backtracked and now say it "was blocked on YouTube out of respect for those injured in today's accident." It didn't stop them from posting their own video of the crash from the TV feed. You can read more about it here, here and here, and see the unblocked video . To me the video looks very similar to the footage that CNN were showing last night.

Welcome to HNet. That wrecker project looks fun - I hope you'll keep us updated with your progress.

I think the title of this great blues track says it all :

The race is due to start at 1:00 ET (12:00 CT).

It's All Over Now - The Rolling Stones I'm embarrassed to say that until I looked up a link for The Rolling Stones' version just now, I'd never heard the original by The Valentinos. I'll include it as a tribute to Valentinos member Cecil Womack who passed away just over three weeks ago on February 1st. I found this funny story about the song on Wikipedia: After hearing "It's All Over Now" by the Womacks (aka the Valentinos) on the WINS show, the [Rolling Stones] recorded their version nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago. Years later, Bobby Womack said in an interview that he had told his manager he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, and that he had told Mick Jagger to get his own song. His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record the song. Six months later on receiving the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger could have any song he wanted. Very true, but the drugs had left her looking way older than 27 in the Dick Cavett video. So sad that she'd be dead just over three months later.

While I was looking at the Pine Street area I decided to explore a little more in case there were any more filming locations nearby. Heading north past the railroad crossing I realized that as the telegraph poles started to have lights on, they started to look familiar. If y'all remember back to post #247, you'll recall the pictures I posted of the "Hazzard County Fair Grounds". For the second picture I mentioned the telegraph poles/lights and suggested that there may be a road and/or railroad on the other side of the fence - it turns out there was both. Take a closer look at that second picture of post #247 and you can just see a pylon on the hill next to the telegraph pole above the blue light of the patrol car on the right. That pylon is roughly in the center of the picture below. The fairground site itself has changed over the years, so I'm going to have to use surrounding landmarks as evidence. The picture below shows an up-to-date aerial view where I've marked the three towers that are seen in the background. The white ones are a common sight in this area, but the darker ones aren't seen so often. Here's an aerial view of the same area using Google Earth's timeline feature - I think it's from 1994. I've highlighted the place where the fairgrounds were. The low white building that's visible in the background of some shots can just be seen at the bottom left corner of the highlighted area. It has since been replaced by the two-story building that you can see on the left of the first picture in this post. Due to the growth of trees, it's difficult to see the surrounding hills from Street View. In the picture below I've inset an image of the landscape from Google Earth's ground level view taken from about the same spot. You can also see the low white building that I mentioned above.

Am I the only one who thinks of playing Tiger Woods' PGA Tour 2005 on the PS2 when I hear this? What do people have against the One Word Song Titles thread recently (mentioning no site owners or moderators in particular, but not Brian )?

Move Any Mountain - The Shamen

For the second time the word "Mountain" lets me post a classical track: The piece is known as 'Night On Bare Mountain' over here. I think I first heard it in the early '80s when it was used in . I had to do a double-take when I saw "Lyrics by Phil Silvers" at the start of the video. Apparently it's true - the lyrics were written by 'Bilko' star Phil Silvers back in 1942. VEVO wouldn't let me watch that video in my country, but I found another version. Probably just as well you were lazy - I'm sure I wouldn't have been allowed to post the Monty Python song with "face" in the title that came to mind .