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These aren't exactly "behind the scenes" pictures, but they are quite rare. They're a couple of pictures of Lurene Tuttle (aka. Granny Annie) that I found in the USC Digital Library. On the right is Lurene's 18-year-old daughter, Barbara Ruick. Barbara was also an actress; she appeared in several movies and TV shows in the '50s and '60s including 'Carousel' in 1956. Barbara was married to composer John Williams until her premature death in 1974. The caption says: "Contract approval, 28 August 1951. Lurene Tuttle (mother); Barbara Ruick -- 18 years (actress)." Larger versions available at USC Digital Library. Here's another picture of Lurene from around the same time. I posted it recently in the trivia thread:

Well that was a more exiting race than two weeks ago, and better than Sonoma (IMHO). I wish there were a few more road courses like Watkins Glen on the calendar. I guess I've got to be happy with Ricky's 18th place after starting 33rd and spending most of the race around 30th. Do you think Tony Stewart would've done any better than Max Papis's 15th? Nothing personal, Garrett, but I'm surprised that Jeff Gordon's car was allowed back on track with the whole front bodywork missing. Surely the exposed engine and wheels, coupled with the lack of the hood flaps if the car spins, must raise some safety issues. At least he wasn't going to suffer from overheating or a blocked grille . I think ESPN need to watch a few F1 races before locating their camera positions for next year's race. On road courses like Watkins Glen you can get better shots of overtaking with cameras mounted higher up and looking down on the action. This isn't really an issue on ovals as they have the stands to work from.

Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin

Did you tell the doctors that you run a Dukes of Hazzard website when they were looking for the cause of your headaches? Seriously though, I hope you're feeling better by now.

Here's the starting line-up for tomorrow's Cheez-it 355 at The Glen. 1. (9) Marcos Ambrose 2. (15) Clint Bowyer 3. (56) Martin Truex Jr. 4. (47) A.J. Allmendinger 5. (18) Kyle Busch 6. (1) Jamie McMurray 7. (27) Paul Menard 8. (2) Brad Keselowski 9. (22) Joey Logano 10. (20) Matt Kenseth 11. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya 12. (35) Michael McDowell 13. (78) Kurt Busch 14. (39) Ryan Newman 15. (55) Brian Vickers 16. (99) Carl Edwards 17. (16) Greg Biffle 18. (48) Jimmie Johnson 19. (5) Kasey Kahne 20. (11) Denny Hamlin 21. (38) David Gilliland 22. (31) Jeff Burton 23. (51) Owen Kelly 24. (33) Ron Fellows 25. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr. 26. (29) Kevin Harvick 27. (32) Boris Said 28. (24) Jeff Gordon 29. (14) Max Papis 30. (13) Casey Mears 31. (34) David Ragan 32. (43) Aric Almirola 33. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 34. (36) Victor Gonzalez Jr. 35. (10) Danica Patrick 36. (83) David Reutimann 37. (19) Alex Kennedy 38. (93) Travis Kvapil 39. (30) David Stremme 40. (7) Dave Blaney 41. (40) Landon Cassill 42. (87) Tomy Drissi 43. (52) Brian Keselowski Just like Sonoma, the qualifying was done in groups. Tony Stewart's temporary replacement, Max Papis, starts in 29th (just behind some guy named Jeff Gordon ). Marcos Ambrose gets his first pole of the year, but he's usually strong at Watkins Glen. The ten top drivers all beat the previous lap record, proving the speed of the Gen-6 cars. I was suprised the see Keselowski's name at the bottom until I realized it was Brian and not Brad - he spun during qualifying and brings up the rear. The action at Watkins Glen International starts at 1:00 PM ET on ESPN.

It looks like Max Papis is more suited to road courses, and it will be interesting to see how he does in a good car. I wasn't trying to start an arguement, I just wasn't sure if you were aware of Max's racing history. I hope Elliott Sadler gets a go in Tony's car too.

Dukes hasn't been on TV in Ireland for a few years now, and even longer in the UK. One of the UK channels did show The Fall Guy last year, and has just started re-runs of Magnum PI and Kojak. I think the parent company owned the (now defunct) channel that last showed Dukes, so hopefully they'll get around to showing it again at some point in the future.

When I heard that JJ Cale had passed away last month, it was a name I knew, but I didn't really know much about him. I thought he was mainly a blues musician, but, according to Wikipedia, "Cale was one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences." After hearing and enjoying some of his music earlier today, I thought I'd post a track as a tribute: Clyde - JJ Cale Cale impressed and influenced a lot of people with his style. Some of them include Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits), Eric Clapton (who covered two of his songs) and Neil Young (who remarked that of all the musicians he had ever heard, J.J. Cale and Jimi Hendrix were the two best electric guitar players). The song above was also covered by someone we're all familiar with: Clyde - Waylon Jennings R.I.P. John Weldon Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013)

Now there's a name I remember. Max raced in F1, but I hadn't realized it was as far back as 1995 until I checked his Wikipedia page. He only competed in seven races, but brought money via sponsorship to the team - I wonder whether he still does. After his time in F1, he left for the USA, and has since competed in CART, IndyCar, Indy 500, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He's also competed seven times in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France, picking up two second places and three third places. Garrett, I can understand why you'd want to see other drivers in Tony's car, but Max seems to have a reasonable racing pedigree.

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I'm going for these: A) Milo A) Tennessee A) their dirty beat up Ford truck A) "more than 50 miles" ultralight aircraft Those people would be me . I must have another look for their shack one day. I think that post pre-dates the Hazzard Square thread, so I now have much better knowledge of the area. Additionally, I now know about Historic Aerials, and Google Maps/Google Earth/Bing Maps have greater coverage than a few years ago.

I'm aware of the maintenance message, but that was posted before the previous weekend, and has now been up for about two weeks. In the past, MeadowMufn has normally given more details of the downtime nearer the event. The suspected site reboots have occurred at random times through the week.

You're not alone, Roger. I still haven't found out what's calling my Adobe Flash Player problem. It works fine for ages and then crashes. I then have to leave it for about 10 minutes before I reload the page. As for HNet, I think there have been problems recently. It was down for about four hours at the weekend (I tested it with a couple of websites that make sure it's not just my problem). I've also clicked on "Who's online" several times in the last two weeks and been given a single digit number of users online. This normally occurs just after the site reboots itself. I know this doesn't explain your problems with other sites, but it's not just you.

Thanks for the Family Feud videos, K-Duke. I've seen the one with the Waltons before, but I think the other two are new to me (I knew they existed, but have never seen them). Now I've seen Richard Dawson again it makes me want to watch some Hogan's Heroes .

About 18 months ago, Byron Cherry tried to sell his personally owned General Lee on Ebay for $150,000 (see the HNet homepage article here). The car obviously didn't sell, because it reappeared on Ebay a few months later with a "Buy it now" price of $99,000. When it didn't sell again, there was an announcement that he was donating the car to the Tim Welborne Muscle Car Museum in Alabama. You can see that thread here (along with a link to a video of Byron and his daughter with the car). Now, Byron seems to be selling the car on Ebay again (thanks to Mufn for posting the link on the HNet FB page). This time the auction doesn't include all the memorabilia in the trunk. The bids are currently just over $30,000, although the reserve hasn't been met. Two things interest me about the current Ebay listing. Firstly, there's a link to an advert from January's AutaBuy Magazine where the car was offered at a firm price of $75,000, which included the memorabilia. The second, tucked away at the side, is a link to a YouTube video called "Dukes are Back". This is described as "a test pilot (short) starring Byron Cherry for a possible spin off reboot called Coy & Vance (aka The Dukes are Back.)". The video was uploaded back in 2010, but I've never seen it before. It must've been recorded before the sad passing of Chip Mayer, but some guy named Pat Magnus plays Vance - it's all a bit strange.

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I don't know what medication you're taking, Roger, but can I have some . Roger and Roth got the correct odd-one-out, but no one got the connection. If you watch the season 6 DVD extra where Ben and Sonny revisit some of the Georgia filming locations, they mention that the original courthouse of Hazzard County is actually the Newton County courthouse in Covington, GA. Picture from Wikipedia.

Remember this question from about ten pages back? Well I've just come across the picture below which shows the filming of the 1946 movie 'The Best Years of Our Lives'. It shows the type of wheeled mic stand that I was trying to describe. The full sized original picture can be found on www.doctormacro.com.

I ended up missing the last part of the race today, so thanks for the re-cap. I saw enough to see Ricky back out on track and making up places. In fact I saw it up to just after Danica's crash, and thought Ricky just stood a chance of beating her if her car damage proved terminal. I suppose I can't complain with 34th after being taken out on the first lap. Here's the full provisional results: 1 Kasey Kahne 2 Jeff Gordon 3 Kurt Busch 4 Ryan Newman 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr 6 Brad Keselowski 7 Joey Logano 8 Kyle Busch 9 Tony Stewart 10 Greg Biffle 11 Carl Edwards 12 Marcos Ambrose 13 Jimmie Johnson 14 Clint Bowyer 15 Martin Truex Jr 16 Jamie McMurray 17 Kevin Harvick 18 Mark Martin 19 Bobby Labonte 20 Aric Almirola 21 David Ragan 22 Matt Kenseth 23 Dave Blaney 24 Casey Mears 25 J.J. Yeley 26 Travis Kvapil 27 Timmy Hill 28 Juan Pablo Montoya 29 Landon Cassill 30 David Stremme 31 David Reutimann 32 Paul Menard 33 AJ Allmendinger 34 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 35 Danica Patrick 36 Jeff Burton 37 Joe Nemechek 38 Tony Raines 39 David Gilliland 40 Michael McDowell 41 Josh Wise 42 Alex Kennedy 43 Denny Hamlin

So, the number 42 proves to be significant for Ricky as it's the number of the car that hits him on the first lap .

I'll sneak a quick two-part question in while Roger's not looking. Easy: Which one of the counties below is not mentioned in any episode? Hard: What is the connection between the odd-one-out and the Dukes of Hazzard? Chickasaw County Choctaw County Hatchapee County Newton County Osage County Riverton County

Well, 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. (If you don't believe me, try Googling it )