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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.

This version comes with an animated video .

It must be about time for another post in this thread. I'll start with the 1977/78 State Police Dodge Monaco from 'Heiress Daisy Duke'. This is the only angle we see, and the badge is never visible. We've seen a black and white State Police car before, and there's at least one more still to come. I think that's season 6 finished, so if we skip on to season 7 we get to 'Happy Birthday, General Lee'. Most of the episode is set back in time when the Dukes first acquire the General. During the flashback sequence they use this 1976/76 Plymouth Fury in Hazzard colors. I think this is the first time since the first season that Hazzard has used one of the single headlight models. Just to emphasize the time difference, the older-style lights and speaker are used on the roof. Also from 'Happy Birthday, General Lee' is this 1975/76 Capitol City Plymouth Fury. The car itself looks like one of Sheriff Little's cars, right down to the A-pillar spotlights, while the badge is very similar to ones found on the State Police cars. The definition of "patrol car" has been stretched slightly over the course of this thread, and this vehicle did feature in a chase. I now present the studio security golf buggy from 'The Dukes in Hollywood'. From what I can find online this is a Taylor Dunn Tee Bird, although I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact model. You can see the rear of it in the second picture of this post in the Hazzard Square thread.

How about a tune from The Queen/First Lady of Rockabilly?: Let's Have a Party - Wanda Jackson The song was first recorded a couple of years earlier by Elvis. For those of you who like their music a little heavier, I found a live version by Led Zeppelin while I was on YouTube.

A couple of hundred yards south we get another look at the side of the Blue Barrel yard. I wasted a bit of time looking for the building with the odd-shaped roof vents above the Mustang II. It's now an open truck park, but the shadow of the vents is visible on Historic Aerials. I wonder whether the mud that covered Hazzard Square during this episode prevented much filming taking place on the backlot, because several incidental scenes were also filmed here. When the bad guys are watching Bo and Luke arrive in Springville their car is parked outside the yellow building mentioned above. Once again the yellow/gray wall of the German Auto Specialist can be seen on the "now" picture. This is the scene when Cooter and Enos first spot the Duke Boys driving the patrol car. It was filmed just north of the previous location. The tall structure behind the RV isn't there any more, and the road now has a much smoother surface, but the trees and buildings haven't changed much over the years. I'm not sure about the locations of these last pictures. The first is from when Bo and Luke first exit the Hazzard County Building in uniform and climb into the back seats of the patrol car. The long shot was filmed in Midwest Street, but the lighting suggests it was done at night. In the close-up of the passer-by (below left) there's a yellow building visible in the background that's not part of Hazzard Square. I wondered if this was the same yellow building seen above, but the window frames are a different color. The scene on the right is when Rosco, Enos, Jesse, Daisy and Cooter set off to look for Bo and Luke. The patrol car and Cooter's truck are parked outside a yellow building more similar to the one above (even though they were supposed to be leaving the County Building), but the lack of fencing and surrounding buildings mean it must have been somewhere else. I'm sorry to end on a sad note, but while I was researching this post I spotted that Norman Alden, aka. Springville's Chief Lacey, passed away about a week ago (27th July 2012) at the age of 87. His acting career started in 1957, and his last part was as recent as 2006. You can see his filmography on IMDb.