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I'm going to agree with BL and say 1872 - it definitely wasn't 1901.

The section of Main street south of the intersection also got used for filming. On the right you can see the post office, while on the left you can just see the white house (mentioned above) where the guy with the binoculars and walkie-talkie watched the race from in 'Luke's Love Story'. Here's the aforementioned guy in the aforementioned house as seen from Center Street. The staircase that's visible in the picture on the left is now on the south side of the house (it's just off the left of the picture above). When you know the layout of Piru, the guy looks in some strange directions as he follows the action! The Piru United Methodist Church on Center Street features very briefly during the race in 'Luke's Love Story'. As promised, here's the road bridge across the creek. This shot is another one from 'Luke's Love Story', but it's also where the Dukes drop off Dewey Stovall at the end of 'Route 7-11'. As you can see from the "now" picture, the bridge is still there, but has been bypassed with a new bridge. Probably due to the abandonment of the railroad, there wasn't a station building in Piru when Dukes was filmed. The scene in 'Luke's Love Story' where the cars slalom through the trees was filmed at the row of trees between Market Street and the current site of the station. The scenes where Enos's car flips, and the remaining three cars jump the hay bales were both filmed between Market street and the railroad, pretty much where the station is now. I didn't take any screengrabs of these scenes because it's impossible to get "now" pictures from anything like the right angles. About six miles north of Piru is Lake Piru which also featured as a filming location in later seasons. I may post some pictures of that area in the future.

This shot from 'Officer Daisy Duke' was taken just west of the garage on Center Street. At the far end of the street you can just see the road bridge which I'll cover below. Nearer the camera are the barriers where the Fillmore to Saugus railroad crossed the road. I found this site that says the line served local orange groves and farms, but became disused after the Santa Clara River trestle was washed out during a flood in 1976. Piru is now at the eastern end of the track owned by the Fillmore & Western Railway Co., but I don't think they currently run trains on this section. The track itself only extends about 100 yards north of the aerial view in the previous post. Moving west on Center Street we get to the intersection with Main Street. This store (handily labeled "Store" on the aerial view) was seen from several angles in 'Officer Daisy Duke'. The sign at the front proclaimed "Groceries, Cold Beer, Ammo" - what more could you want? The "now" picture suggests that the store has be closed for some time. This is what the same intersection looks like when you approach it heading south on Main Steet. I'll come to the white house on the right of the "now" picture in the next post. Here's a close-up of the building on the corner opposite the general store. It's now an ice cream parlor, although when Dukes was filmed it was a bank. I like the way that the props department went to the trouble of making a "Bank of Hazzard" sign for one side of the building, but did nothing to obscure the "Bank of America" sign on the other!

Today I've decided to cover the town of Piru. I've mentioned it before, but only with a passing reference. My decision was based on three things: I've recently re-watched the episodes where it featured; Wekke's pictures of Piru on cglfc.com are no longer available; Google has hugely improved its coverage of the area with Street View. When I originally looked at Piru, Street View could only offer some blurry images of Main Street. It now covers the whole town (the images are dated April 2012). NB. I've taken my street names from Google Maps; a couple of the streets have different names on Bing Maps. Piru is a small town about 10 miles west of the Indian Dunes landing strip that I covered in post #224. It featured in several episodes in season 1 and 2. I'll start with a aerial view that covers most of the filming locations. The majority of the buildings are still recognizable, even if some of them have changed color. The same can't be said for the trees and telegraph poles, both of which have changed considerably. With this in mind I thought it would be a good idea to do the "then and now" pictures again. Sadly, I have to work with Street View for the now pictures (unlike Wekke who actually visited the locations), so I couldn't always get the angle I wanted. Piru must have been very accommodating to the film crew because about half of the town is used for the race in 'Luke's Love Story'. Explore it for yourself on Google Maps. The first picture is of Enos waiting outside the garage in 'Route 7-11'. This is another side of garage as it appeared through the General's windshield in 'Luke's Love Story'. The race actually passes under the porch where Enos was parked in the previous picture. Y'all might remember that "No spectators were allowed. That way they couldn't signal the drivers on what might be coming up". The group of spectators to the left of the orange truck appear on-screen before Waylon finishes that line! If you spin around 180 degrees from the previous shot you get this view. The picture on the left shows Boss's Cadillac just before he reaches the stopped gambling truck in 'Route 7-11'.

I'll try to give a definitive answer, but please excuse me if I leave anything out. The original telephone operator was played by Lindsay Bloom. Her character's name seems to vary from one episode to another. In 'The Meeting' she is called "Maybelle" in the dialog, but credited as "Myrtle". In 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough' she is revealed to be Boss's "cousin Maybelle", which is confirmed in 'Mason Dixon's Girls'. In both episodes she is credited "Myrtle Tillingham". The only time I can find her refered to as "Myrtle" in the dialog is when Jesse answers the phone in 'The Runaway'. By 'The Late J.D. Hogg' in season 3 her name still sounds like "Maybelle" but the spelling has become "Mabel" and she is named as "Mabel Tillingham" in the credits. They did seem to be fond of the name; you're right about the "Mobile Madame" of 'Daisy's Song' being "Ms. Mabel", and Emery Potter married a girl called "Mabel Wooster". The telephone operator in season 5 was "Gussie Peabody", played by Annie O'Donnell.

I suppose I could have posted this in the Rosco's Patrol Car thread since it's a Plymouth Fury driven by Enos, but there's no lightbar or police decals, so I'm posting it here. This is Enos's race car from 'Luke's Love Story'. It meets its fate when Turk, who everyone thinks is Cooter, barges him off the road.

I think everything's gonna sound dull compared to Roger's first job . My first regular paid job was delivering a weekly newspaper. When I was 16 I got a Saturday job in a local store selling TVs, VCRs, CDs and other abbreviations. Back then it was common for the stereos to come with a record player, but CD players were still an optional extra!

Welcome! I hope you and your son enjoy yourselves here .

It looks like TNT have ordered a second season consisting of 15 episodes of the show to air from January 2013 onward. Would you believe that I only saw the first trailer for the UK showing this week? The UK, Ireland and several other European countries have to wait until early September to see the new episodes.

Spock (assuming we're playing Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock)

Hazzard Rebels is pretty good, although if Boss had anything to do with the name I'm sure it be Hazzard Hog(g)s . Roger, I'm surprised you suggest Hazzard Pirates, or did you think that was a silly name for a sports team . Daisy seems to have a couple of Hazzard County High School pennants in her room. They're visible in 'Witness for the Persecution' just before she finds Boss in her bed, and again in 'The Runaway' when she lends Suzy Holmes some of her clothes. The picture below is from the latter:

scissors (I win )

After doing the Petey Willis car to start this thread, it seemed silly not to do Cooter's car from 'Duke vs Duke'. They're both 1968 Chevelles and share a number of other similarities. Their hoods both have the Corvette L88 scoop, although it's smoothed in and painted the same color as the body on Cooter's car. They also both have the same wheels and vents on hood. They do differ though; Cooter's car doesn't have painted headlights and the roll cages look different. I haven't bothered with a top view because there isn't anything to see. Just like with Petey Willis's car, at least two different Chevelles were used. Most of the time they used a standard model (below left), but for several of the close-ups they used one with flared wheel arches (below right). The one with the flared wheel arches has full-height seats, whereas the standard one doesn't. The spacing of the stripes and placement of the number varied from car to car and from one side to the other. Due to its rarity, I wouldn't be surprised if the car with the flared wheel arches was repainted for 'Welcome Back, Bo 'n' Luke'. I don't know how many standard cars there were, but one of them gets a pretty good hit from Rosco's car at the end of the race, so it's probably less likely that that one was reused.

How about a funky Philadelphia instrumental from 1975? I only heard this track for the first time yesterday when it came on the radio, but I've listened to it on YouTube several time since then.

Sorry, I couldn't resist : From the album 'Aperitif for Destruction'.

I think Roger is the only one who's posted a song by this artist before: The unmistakable voice of the man they called 'Gentleman Jim'. He was posthumously elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967.

I've been skipping around episodes looking for screengrabs again, and spotted a few mistakes along the way. It's clear that the props department did an excellent job, but weren't always the best spellers. If you've been reading the Patrol Cars in Pictures thread you'll know that they constantly spelled "US Marshal" as "US Marshall", and both Rosco and Jesse often had letters added to their names when they appeared on-screen. I initially took a screengrab of the competetion poster from 'High Octane' with the thought that I may reproduce it. When I looked carefully I spotted "Fuel" spelled as "Feul" in rule #2 (had someone been watching too much 'Family Feud'?) and "Detonators" spelled as "Detinators" in rule #7. In 'The Meeting' the boys break into Cooter's through an upper window. When they drop down to the garage floor there's a plain white 4-door 1977/78 Dodge Monaco parked next to the office. Seconds later when we see the other side it's changed into a 1962 Chevy Impala 2-door. The test equipment next to the office also appears from nowhere. In 'Road Pirates' the hijacked driver is asked to identify the deputy who stopped him, and the blackboard is turned into an improvized height chart. I seem to recall that Rick is over six feet tall, so the six foot line is slightly low. The other divisions are supposed to be two inches apart, but are actually three to four inches apart (there's no way that Rick's waist is 4'8" off the ground). At the beginning of 'Hazzard Connection' there's a scene where Rosco and Enos stop the General and a car transporter. Watch the top right corner of the screen carefully and you'll see the microphone bobbing in and out of shot. Its shadow is also visible moving around to the right of Rosco.

Going back to 1971 ...

All the cats can breathe a sigh of relief now that Curiousity has landed safely on Mars : Misfit - Curiosity Killed the Cat For the gamers amongst you, this is one of the tracks played by Vice City FM on GTA IV.

Seeing as I've already had a song with this name by Frankie Goes to Hollywood I'll have to go with this one:

A catchy, upbeat track from the 2007 album 'Life In Cartoon Motion'. Johnny Cash does of this song too.

A long-overdue first appearance for Stevie Wonder in this thread.