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Hi Steve, welcome aboard. I'm glad you're enjoying the Hazzard Square thread. I'm nearly the same age as you, so I was wondering: does your screen name have anything to do with the Russ Abbot character from his '80s TV show, or is it just based on your surname? Like MaryAnne, I look forward to seeing the pictures of your Charger.

You could use this one from 'Cool Hands, Luke & Bo' for the exit:

Welcome to HNet FMoore. Here's the sign that appeared at the start of the 'Reunion' TV movie. I'll keep an eye out for ones that appeared in the regular series.

My mistake Roger, the three-wheelers were in 'Twin Trouble'. I was pretty tired last night when I decided to add the episode name in brackets to make things clearer. It was the same episode as the picture above, so I cut and pasted the name from the text with that picture, forgetting there were two episodes mentioned - and I picked the wrong one . I remember thinking that at the time I posted the original Hatchapee pictures. I've just watched 'Days of Shine and Roses' again and looked carefully at Sheriff 'Spike' Loomis's cars. The decals certainly appear silver in some shots, but they are made from the mirror finish material, so it's hard to tell. I have personal experience of working with this material and it's quite possible for the silver to look gold, and vice versa, depending on the lighting. The scenes with the Hatchapee cars were filmed in bright sunlight, and I judged that the decals were actually gold despite appearing lighter (I've seen the Hazzard decals appear silver in some shots). Gold would also match better with the 'shine jugs on the fender. I think the only silver decals up to this point are those of the Finchburg Sheriff and the Capitol City Police. To sum up, I can see your point, and you may be right, but my opinion is that they were gold. It wasn't an oversight, and I don't plan to change the Fan Art versions.

The number of non-Hazzard patrol cars seems to have tailed off compared to earlier seasons, and I didn't spot any more new patrol cars or government vehicles in season 5, so it's on to season 6. I'm going to need some help identifying these. Taken from 'A Baby for the Dukes', they appear to have silmilar brown liveries, although one has a white hood stripe. They also have the older 'bubble gum' style lights instead of a lightbar. From what I've been able to find, they perform well off-road despite only being rated at one horse power! We've seen Sheriff Little's patrol car in this thread before, but I'm including this picture from 'The Boar's Nest Bears' because it shows the car has now lost its front 'fangs'. It was probably one less job to do when his cars were being built. In 'Twin Trouble' we get to see another Plymouth Fury from Hatchapee County. For some reason the car is older than the ones in 'Days of Shine and Roses', has the AeroDynic lightbar instead of the squarer variety, and is now blue and white instead of black and white. There's no mention of Sheriff 'Spike' Loomis in this episode, so maybe his replacement, Sheriff Floyd, has made the changes. Once again the repair bills on the Hazzard patrol cars cause Boss to employ extreme measures. For this episode ('Days of Shine and Roses') they are replaced with three-wheelers. From what I could find online these appear to be 1983 Honda 250R ATCs, but I know very little about vehicles with less than four wheels, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Just listened to this song, and suddenly it's 1992 again .

This one may be something that only an ex-signmaker would spot. In 'The Rustlers' the bad guys try to disguise the pale blue van by removing the signs from the sides. The signs come off really easily as if they are made of the static cling material usually used for window signs. Whatever they're made of, they come off cleanly. A bit later Cooter spots adhesive residue on the van. There is no way this could happen when the sign had a solid rectangular backing. If any glue had been left behind it would not be in the shape of letters. Moving on to 'Undercover Dukes', here's the close-up of JJ Carver's map of crime bosses and their regions: Yet, when Luke removes the picture that hides it, and when JJ Carver looks at it earlier, the names of the crime bosses have disappeared.

Hey you, don't watch that, watch this! This is the heavy heavy monster sound, the nuttiest sound around ...

To curb the sales of illegal knives, although it seems a bit over-the-top. It was the result of popular BBC consumer show 'Watchdog' buying knives that are illegal in the UK through the site. The BBC News article is here.

Daney, I think CDoherty's away for a couple of days, so let me put your mind at rest. Unlike some parts of mainland Europe, there are no compulsory or voluntary ID cards for the general population of either the UK or Ireland. What Ireland does have is a voluntary system called the "National Age Card Scheme" which is a proof of age card and not an identity card. Legal drinking age is 18, so most people with these cards are in their late teens or early 20s. They cost €10 - more info here. For the rest of the population there are alternative forms of identification. In Ireland you are legally required to carry your driver's license if you're driving (not the case in the UK). There is also a higher proportion of the country that holds a passport: about 70% in Ireland (similar in the UK), compared to 35% in the US. CD's friend may also have a student card, so if the worst happens, there should still be ways to identify him.

I've said this before, but people don't routinely own these sort of knives over here. After reading the last post I went to check on something that I vaguely remembered, and I was right: in the UK and Ireland eBay banned the sale of all knives and swords except cutlery back in 2009. Just thought I'd include this FYI: Change to policy regarding sale of knives on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie I don't think this affects other internet sites, and you could buy one from a store if you are over 18. It is, however, illegal to sell flick knives, butterfly knives and disguised knives to any age.

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You'd better take some pictures and upload them to Instagram while you're there. Wrigley Field is currently in fourth place in the table of most pictures of a ballpark posted online: How Instagram Is Taking Over Major League Baseball Enjoy the game .

Not as smoothly as they'd have liked. I found a video on YouTube showing an unintentional crash before the jump (the jump is also included): NB. Dukesfest 2012 was the name given by the uploader of the video.

Song For Whoever - The Beautiful South Oh Shirley, Oh Deborah, Oh Julie, Oh Jane, I wrote so many songs about you, I forget your name...

If the box looks like the one below then it dates from around 1981. A quick look an Ebay shows four of them for sale ranging from a starting bid of $0.99 to a buy-it-now price of $56.99. You may get more if it's still unopened. Enjoy it, but I don't think you'll be able to retire early .

I'll look that up tomorrow and pretend I was saving it for another post . I don't seem to give myself time to watch whole episodes these days, so I tend to grab pictures out of sequence and don't necessarily watch every episode. This means that I accumulate images until I think I have enough to make a whole post about a certain area worthwhile or until the area is identified. Some of the pictures I posted last week had been hanging around for ages because I didn't know where they were, then several others fell into place when I rewatched other episodes. The last picture I posted (Placerita Chaparral) was only grabbed during the week when I was looking at 'The Ghost of General Lee' for another thread. I figured I'd stick it on the end because it was pretty close to the other locations, and I don't currently have any more that are nearby. Anyway, thanks for the extra info. I think the next post will be heading back toward Lake Sherwood when I figure out what I want to show.

While we're at the Golden Oaks Ranch I'll cover another recognizable structure that's only a couple of hundred yards north of the barn. Originally spotted by MeadowMufn in another thread, it's the covered bridge (#23 on Disney's location plan). This is Bo jumping into the lake while Luke drives Cooter's tow truck across the bridge in 'Follow That Still' Here's another angle as Miss Leona runs away from Bubba in 'Find Loretta Lynn'. The bridge appears in several other episodes including when it was used as the exchange point in 'The Runaway'. It's not the easiest structure to spot from the air, unless you know where to look, so I've included this aerial shot. As you can see, using the bridge isn't much quicker than driving around the end of the lake. The large building that's visible at the right end of the bridge on Google Maps seems to have been built since Dukes was filmed. For a non-Dukes aside, if you stay on Google's 45 degree view and go south-east you can see the new "Urban Business District" set at various stages of construction (change the orientation to see other views). Google must have updated their aerial views, because when I first looked at this area there was an old Wild West set at this location. This last picture isn't on Golden Oaks Ranch, but it is only a short distance to the east on Placerita Canyon Road. The scene appears very briefly in 'The Ghost of General Lee'. The wall in the middle, on the corner of Running Horse Road, seems to have been rebuilt since Dukes was filmed, and is now surrounded by several bushes. The text on the wall isn't readable in Dukes, but it now says "Placerita Chaparral". If you check out the Street View you'll see that this particular view hasn't changed much over the years.

The buildings we've been looking at are part of Disney's Golden Oaks Ranch on Placerita Canyon Road. Here's how the buildings look today. Apart from a different side roof on the barn, they still look pretty similar. According to Disney's location plan (PDF) this is the "Central Region" of the ranch, and now sits between two recently-built street sets. The barn itself is simply labelled "Main Barn", but the area off to the right of this picture is appropriately named "Moonshine Meadow/Woods". To see it on Google Maps, click here. One of the reasons that I included the picture of Squirt in the previous post is that it ties in nicely with these pictures from 'The Ghost of General Lee'. Although you can't see the white buildings in this picture (they're just off to the left), the roof that overhangs the barn doors can clearly be seen. The Feed & Grain sign is right there in the middle. In another scene from 'The Ghost of General Lee' we see the bad guys in front of the same barn (the small bush must have been a prop because it moves along the barn wall between scenes!). This picture, however, also shows that this was the season 2 location of the Boar's Nest: the entrance is visible on the right. Once you know what you're looking for, you can see the barn and the white buildings in the background of several other Boar's Nest scenes in season 2.

I'm going to use this post to show some scene-setting pictures from 'Find Loretta Lynn' before explaining their location in the next. The first is the entrance to the Hazzard County Stockyards with the large barn at the back. The barn was used to hide Loretta's RV. Here's the same area as seen from the front of the barn as Miss Leona escapes. The distinctive stepped roofline of the white buildings is visible in both of these pictures. When Bo and Luke arrive at the stockyards they park to the left of sign in the first picture. If you watch this scene carefully you'll see that the little black blob above Bo's head is actually a small animal scampering to safety! Here's Squirt walking along the side of the barn, ready to ambush the Dukes. I've included it because it gives a good close-up of the "Feed & Grain" sign.

Welcome to HNet General. You're right, it is a fun site .

I'll use the "the" from Garrett's track to get back on the "song" songs theme: The gnu: the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo. Although I'd normally recommend the original of any Flanders and Swann song, is pretty good .

Hi Richard, welcome to HNet. Like Brian, I am also looking forward to seeing your photos.