@@StanleyFoss I’ve downloaded Pluto and it has all episodes of all those sitcoms for free! Even Dennis the Menace, Car 54 Where are You and the Adams family. I Love Lucy is coming this week too! There are also 70s and 80s sitcoms like Family Ties, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Threes Company. There are even more than that but just check it out for yourself since you also love the old sitcoms.
@@StanleyFoss do it and come back on here and let me know what you think. Tubi is another one my daughter showed me. It’s got some good ones too. It had one of my favorites, “The Rockford Files” but they recently removed it. But Sanford and Son, The Jefferson’s and Maude are some they have. I think All in the Family is or at least was on there too.
@Grampa-Grump Nope those kind of shows will never exist again, especially Petticoat Junction. I used to watch them in reruns as a kid, Green Acres was my favorite!
I'm old enough to remember the family getting together every week to watch Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and other great sitcoms of the 1960's and early 70's on our black and white console TV. It was a great time to grow up, with lots of good, funny and wholesome TV shows.
amen sista. i was born in 1961 so i also remember watching them with my late brother mickey at our grandma and grandpa's.. Dragnet, The Glen Campbell comedy hour. Saturday Morning Cartoons At 5.00 Am Sharp. Till 12.00 Pm Noon, Then The Monkees came on. july 22nd. 5.48 Pmcst USA..
@@tonyfriend7413 And don't forget HEE HAW! and the Red Skelton show ...and Carol Burnett and Flip Wilson. And Bewitched and the Munsters. OH MY what good times!🥰 Poor kids today have to watch the Kardashians and stupid stuff on tiktok. 😝
A hundred miles to the east of "Green Acres" is the little town of Pixley, CA. "Pixley" was mentioned often in Petticoat Junction and Green Acres for both of their runs. The Hooverville Cannonball train ran between Hooverville and Pixley in both of the series. The Hooverville Cannonball was about two hundred miles north in Jamestown, CA. in a railroad museum. It was also Secret Service agent James West's train in the series, "The Wild, Wild West", which was being produced at the same time as these series.
I really want to check out Pixley and see what it is like, and also the Hooterville Cannonball. I believe it’s the same engine they used in Back to the Future part 3?
@@StanleyFoss Yes, part of Back to the Future 3 was filmed in Jamestown, using the train. Good 'ole autocorrect. I just noticed that it turned "Hooterville" into "Hooverville" when I wrote it above, lol! "Hooverville" is what they called shanty towns in the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Let's see, we have Pixley, Crabwell Corners, Budtussle, Sibly, Snyder's Swamp, Mayberry, Syler City and Greendale. All places I've never been but boy, one day, I'm gonna get there.
Several episodes of the Wild Wild West used the house set from The Big Valley also filming at the same time as each other. Trivia and reminiscing is a lot of fun.
A little history Eddie Albert was in the Navy in WWll. He was at the battle of Tarwawa. He would drive his Higgins boat around plucking wounded Marines out of the water under fire. A real hero. Semper fi
Hi Stan, we can't thank you enough for all the effort and research you put into your videos! It is also fascinating to see parts of California I would never otherwise experience here in New England
It looks urban sprawl has pushed right up to the farm . This is what happens because the land becomes so valuable for development that farmers cannot afford the taxes and have to sell. Thank you for documenting this little piece of tv history.
There is one thing that Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and the Andy Griffith show all had in common. And that is, all three shows had the same telephone operator named Sarah.
I always wondered what made them pick Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas. I had never seen him in anything other than serious roles. He was great as the straight man on Green Acres. I think his most common line was "Oh for the love of..." 1:281:28
How fantastic that you found that house AND with that tree still intact! CBS became infamous for their "Rural Purge", cancelling the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Mayberry RFD. Pat Buttram (aka Mister Haney) has been quoted as bitterly saying "CBS cancelled every show that had a tree in it".
At that point, all of the rural series had gotten stale. Mayberry RFD was a shadow of the original series, and the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres had lost their creative spark. The move paid off for CBS as many of the the replacements, led by "All in the Family", "M*A*S*H", and "Mary Tyler Moore" became huge hits attracting younger audiences.
Thank you for finding this “Green Acres” location also! So cool that the farmhouse still looks pretty similar to how it did in the 1960s. I had forgotten that this was identified as Newt Kiley’s farm in the show’s pilot episode. Kay E. Kuter did a great job playing Newt. Thanks again!
I have the whole series on DVD. It was my favorite of all of those rural comedies that CBS unfairly canceled in one fell swoop. All these years later, my kids, especially my 11 year old son love it. The absurdist humor still holds up. Thanks for posting this and the one where you found the location of where the barn from the opening sequence was located!
The Thanksgiving episode was an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, and it was probably the biggest crossover episode for the 3 shows. Few characters were in all 3 shows. Oliver, Lisa, Jed, Granny, Eb Dawson, and Sam Drucker were among those. The guy who played Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) was in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, but as "Alvin" a studio exec at Mammoth Pictures.
Yup, my home town. I grew up there and also watched the show. My older brother used to talk about the house on the show but being so young at the time I wasn't too interested. Good show.
Stanley, thank you so much for this video. When Green Acres began in 1965 I was 5 years old and growing up in a small town in PA. The opening shots always made me feel at home. My parents loved this show and I know they felt comfortable with the settings as well. I'm not real happy finding out that the farm is in California having always imagined it was Iowa or Maybe Kansas. But I still think it's a beautiful unassuming country home. Thanks for the ride!
But wait, there's more! Hooterville's neighboring town is Pixley, and that's also a town on Highway 99 several miles north of Bakersfield. I'm pretty sure Bakersfield also has a neighborhood named Greenacres. And rumor has it that "GREEN ACRES" was painted on the roof of a barn near Tulare so that it could serve as the show's title card.
There is strong indication toward the end of the series that their farm was in Kentucky. Sam Drucker read a zipcode that was suppose to attach to Hooterville. I always thought Green Acres was set in Oregon.
@@ThomasJanik-nf5vi One of the things that was a running theme in all "Hooterville" shows was the actual state in which Hooterville was located, they carefully never mentioned a state, but also gave many conflicting "clues". For example, one time they indicated that Hooterville was in the Mountain Time Zone (two hours difference between Washington, DC), which could indicate Western Kansas or Nebraska (plus the episode where Lisa was accused of bombing Denver via a hot air balloon), Also, there was an episode where towns in New York State were given in reference. There have also been mentions that would have indicated that the town was in Illinois. However, I cannot think of an episode that would confirm California.
Wow! How interesting that you found that house! The rest of the show was filmed on a sound stage which meant that they were eventually scrapped to make room for different projects. Great video! One of my favorite shows growing up!
@@StanleyFoss Thanks for your response! Looking forward to seeing what you dig up! Maybe you can track down the train that was used in GA and PJ. I heard it was some kind of tourist attraction at one point. Thanks!
Location filming with the real train took place on the Sierra Railroad in California, between Jamestown and just west of Chinese Camp. The railroad and the locomotive and cars are still in existence.
Australian here. Watched Green Acres as a kid. I've since visited the houses of The Nanny, King of Queens, The Brady Bunch, the Ponderossa, as well as Rydell High and Thunder Rd, the cake shop of The Cake Boss, the park in Billy Jack, and I recently learned where the bat cave is for next trip. My daughter has also been to the 4077th.
Like seeing you point out those landmarks. If I ever make it to California will want to see it for myself. Just discovering there are people like I am accustomed that live in the state. Showing simpler realities really do make a difference. Add to it all those Sumo orchards and I am ready to go!
LOVE this! Funny thing is, when I was little when this show first came on, this farmhouse looks EXACTLY like one in rural NY state where I grew up - a house down from my grandparents and aunt and uncle on Pumpkin Swamp Road! :P! TRUE name! When we were little we would say that to our mom and she would say it sure does look like the house by Aunt Lela's! AMAZING!
Thanks for sharing the location of the house that was shown on the opening of every episode of Green Acres. I love watching that show when it first aired in the 60's.
Paso Robles? Who would have ever thunk that was the house featured on every opening credits of Green Acres was located! I'll tell you, nobody is craftier than TV show producers. I would have bet my bottom dollar that was filmed in rual Indiana. Thank you, Stanley. More, please!
This was very enjoyable to watch. I have a still shot of the opening of the show on my TV right now. No doubt it is the same house and that was certainly a good catch for you to notice and find it. I think you're right about the windmill location also. Too much of a coincidence not to be the same place. Sure would be neat if you could stop and visit and they would let you inside. Bet that would cause kind of a surreal feeling.
Thank you! Yes that would be cool to take a look inside. I made another video about the location of the green acres barn, that is on my channel also. Thanks!
This was a very sad video all of these fine Actors have passed on and there shows bring back great memories but their show still lives on today and Thanks to videos like yours Thank you.
For me..what got my interest in green acres was the illusion of small town rural life.very believable in that respect and it doesn't take much effort to get into that mindset.great show and i thought Eddie Albert was great as Oliver.
Thank you for finding that! I figured it was somewhere in California but never guessed it was Paso Robles. All I remember about Paso Robles is it was the hottest place in the world when we went camping when I was a kid. I'm looking forward to your other videos.
Alvy Moore, who played Hank Kimball, is buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. I know Tom Lester, who played Eb, died in 2020, and was buried in his native state of Mississippi. I'm trying to find this house on a map. I'm guessing you didn't include the name of the road for privacy reasons?
Yes, thanks! So glad it was under two hours away from me! Yes watch out for the dogs - they came charging down and I thought they were going to jump the fence! 😱
Thanks for finding this. You should try to reach out to the folks who own it. Go to the town or the county where the real estate records are kept and reach out to them. They might even have a story. Filmways was a cheap company. Vic Mizzy (who wrote the music that you are mangling in your sound track) also wrote the music for The Addams Family (another Filmways Presentation). He was told they wouldn't pay to get a singer to sing it. So Vic himself is singing it. On three tracks. So it's likely Filmways sent some young intern out in his own car with a movie camera and said "Shoot some farm footage" and since this house is on a highway the owners probably were never contacted for permission.
Yeah I’m sure the owners or original owners her never payed or even consulted. Also, I had to use a cover version of the intro song to avail copyrighted music .
@@StanleyFoss haha! There’s always going to be a backhanded dig coming somewhere out of the woodwork! Thank you for your research and posting this. Us old baby boomers appreciate the work put into it.
Actually, if a home is filmed or photographed from a public area, no permission is required to publish or film the location unless there is a court order that forbids publication.
I'm 65 years old and always wondered where the opening was filmed at. I thought since Paul Henning spent a lot of time in Missouri he must have filmed it there. Now I finally know!! Thanks Brother!
That big lake around that area was a Oil Company exploring Drilling in 1954 and they hit Artesian that used to belong to the Franklin family and mr. Franklin was my school teacher at Georgia Brown Elementary in Paso Robles California.
There was a 1950 predecessor show on the radio called Granby's Green Acres starring Gale Gordon that was created by the same Jay Sommers that is in the floating credits for the tv show. Thanks for this video I never knew the location actually exists. I wish you had talked to the current owners.
Green Acres was one of my favorite TV shows. Everyone used Mrs.. Douglas's Pancakes to fix their leaking roofs 😃😃😃. About 2 years ago at work ,there were a few of us that were about the same age talking about TV shows. Someone mentioned Green Acres and I started singing the song. When I got to Lisa's part one of the women started singing Lisa's part and I sung Olivers. When we finished we got applause and laughter. Last time I checked only Eb ( Tom Lester) was the only surviving cast member.
Yes, Stanley, can you find out about that barn roof. Did they paint it or was it somehow added through animation, something I believe would have been possible back then.
I stumbled on your video and watched it because of your Green Acres content. I grew up watching “Acres”, “Junction” and “Hillbillies“ and your documentary is excellent. I am going to checkout more of your videos. Love your work, Stanley.
I live in Tom Lester's hometown , I've sat behind him in church and they would call on him to pray, he was real religious. He had a lot of competition when competing for this role with no notoriety, I guess luck had a lot to do with it. Must have been a lot of fun to meet all those stars while he was doing the show. RIP Tom Lester.
I never saw an Episode with the Beverly Hillbillies , Green Acres and Petticoat Junction together.. I have seen Petticoat Junction and Green Acres intermingling.
Then we can assume that Hooterville was probably located in California. Plus, there's a real-life Pixley there as well. Pixley is located between Bakersfield and Fresno. Plus the water tower where Bradley girls from Petticoat Junction swam in is located in Jamestown, CA. Otherwise, Green Acres. Petticoat Junction, and The Beverly Hillbillies were all filmed at the General Service Studios in Hollywood.
The 1939 water tower you saw on PJ burned up in one of those sweeping California wildfires about 20 years ago. It was replaced with a somewhat similar tower on the same footing using the salvageable hardware from the original. And, the girls were never actually in that tower. They were standing in a mockup of the tower, on the ground.
@@rotunda57 I saw in in 1998 and was told at the time it was the original tank. Sad to know it was destroyed, but hopefully the replica looks the same.
If not for the small rolling hill behind it, I'd be able to see that house from mine right off Beechwood Dr! Great work, excellent research on the Green Acres Barn video as well. Cheers!
Thanks for informing us about this historic home. I was surprised after all of these years( 60) that it's still standing.I always thought it was in Illinois. I live in Indiana so to me it looked like that.
Never forget, it was the network purge of all these wholesome shows about patriotic american rural life that led to all of those sneaky opinion changing " comment on the state of society by preaching liberalism isnt bad" schpiel shows that got us exactly where we are today.
Just Subscribed to your channel after watching this video 👍 This was a very cool video buddy, I enjoyed watching it. Can't believe all these years that same old house is still standing. Don't know if it has been same people back then living in it or somebody else along the way through the years, who ever lived there sure has taken very good care of the house. Thank you for sharing the story. Now remember time from time they would mention a small town called, Pixley, when I finally gotten married in November of 1989 my wife had lived in Pixley California all her 23 years of her life at that time. But the show was talking about another town called Pixley, not the one from California, but it was cool though when they would mention about the town. I pretty much lived with her and her Mom and her younger sister from time to time if I wasn't working. On days I would work I stayed home with my Dad. I was 23 and she was still 22 when we got married. Been nearly 34 years ago. No longer married to her now, in 2000 we got divorced.
Link to part 2 The Barn Location!
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I grew up watching Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Andy Griffith and Beverly Hillbillies. There will never be another time on TV like that again!
Yes, they don’t make sitcoms anywhere near like those classics anymore :/
Glad you found my video!
@@StanleyFoss I’ve downloaded Pluto and it has all episodes of all those sitcoms for free! Even Dennis the Menace, Car 54 Where are You and the Adams family. I Love Lucy is coming this week too! There are also 70s and 80s sitcoms like Family Ties, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Threes Company. There are even more than that but just check it out for yourself since you also love the old sitcoms.
@@GenX-Grampa oh cool, I will check out Pluto tv for sure , thanks 👍🏻
@@StanleyFoss do it and come back on here and let me know what you think. Tubi is another one my daughter showed me. It’s got some good ones too. It had one of my favorites, “The Rockford Files” but they recently removed it. But Sanford and Son, The Jefferson’s and Maude are some they have. I think All in the Family is or at least was on there too.
@Grampa-Grump Nope those kind of shows will never exist again, especially Petticoat Junction. I used to watch them in reruns as a kid, Green Acres was my favorite!
That’s fantastic the house is still there! Nice work, Stanley. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Yeah pretty awesome that the house is still there and surrounded by open land - no housing up against it!
@@StanleyFoss Had to be a very poor farmer 80 acres is nothing, even small farms are thousands of acres.
@@hifijohnMight of sold some of it off?
I'm old enough to remember the family getting together every week to watch Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and other great sitcoms of the 1960's and early 70's on our black and white console TV. It was a great time to grow up, with lots of good, funny and wholesome TV shows.
They don’t make shows like that at all anymore unfortunately
amen sista. i was born in 1961 so i also remember watching them with my late brother mickey at our grandma and grandpa's.. Dragnet, The Glen Campbell comedy hour. Saturday Morning Cartoons At 5.00 Am Sharp. Till 12.00 Pm Noon, Then The Monkees came on. july 22nd. 5.48 Pmcst USA..
@@tonyfriend7413 And don't forget HEE HAW! and the Red Skelton show ...and Carol Burnett and Flip Wilson. And Bewitched and the Munsters. OH MY what good times!🥰 Poor kids today have to watch the Kardashians and stupid stuff on tiktok. 😝
We did the same, great times.
A hundred miles to the east of "Green Acres" is the little town of Pixley, CA. "Pixley" was mentioned often in Petticoat Junction and Green Acres for both of their runs. The Hooverville Cannonball train ran between Hooverville and Pixley in both of the series. The Hooverville Cannonball was about two hundred miles north in Jamestown, CA. in a railroad museum. It was also Secret Service agent James West's train in the series, "The Wild, Wild West", which was being produced at the same time as these series.
I really want to check out Pixley and see what it is like, and also the Hooterville Cannonball. I believe it’s the same engine they used in Back to the Future part 3?
@@StanleyFoss Yes, part of Back to the Future 3 was filmed in Jamestown, using the train. Good 'ole autocorrect. I just noticed that it turned "Hooterville" into "Hooverville" when I wrote it above, lol! "Hooverville" is what they called shanty towns in the Great Depression of the 1930's.
I've seen the Cannonball in other shows but I can't remember which ones, besides the ones mentioned here.
Let's see, we have Pixley, Crabwell Corners, Budtussle, Sibly, Snyder's Swamp, Mayberry, Syler City and Greendale. All places I've never been but boy, one day, I'm gonna get there.
Several episodes of the Wild Wild West used the house set from The Big Valley also filming at the same time as each other. Trivia and reminiscing is a lot of fun.
A little history Eddie Albert was in the Navy in WWll. He was at the battle of Tarwawa. He would drive his Higgins boat around plucking wounded Marines out of the water under fire. A real hero. Semper fi
I have seen him in some ww2 footage doing that.
I watched Green Acres back then and I still watch the re-runs now ! Thanks for the Memories......... ❤
Thanks to MeTV!🙂
The most brilliant comedy series ever in my opinion, thanks for taking us with you
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Stan, we can't thank you enough for all the effort and research you put into your videos! It is also fascinating to see parts of California I would never otherwise experience here in New England
Hi Rusty, thanks! If you like wine you would love Paso Robles, CA. There are wineries everywhere. Thanks for the kind words!
@@StanleyFoss I thought you needed to know DavyCrocko has passed away his funeral is this weekend he was 28 years old.
It looks urban sprawl has pushed right up to the farm . This is what happens because the land becomes so valuable for development that farmers cannot afford the taxes and have to sell. Thank you for documenting this little piece of tv history.
There is one thing that Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and the Andy Griffith show all had in common. And that is, all three shows had the same telephone operator named Sarah.
Oh interesting, I didn’t know that 👍🏻
How bout "Mayberry RFD"?
Green Acres was and still is one of my favorite sit coms…the comedy was genius.
It wasn't a Sitcom
I loved how Lisa pronounced it "Hootersville"! 😂
And "Hotscakes".
Also electricical. lol
Another excellent video! The house looks so cute . A perfect getaway home 🏡.
Thank you! Would be cool if they Airbnb’d it for the Green Acres super fans 👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
That is a brilliant and televilogically sturdy piece of work there thank you young man.
🙏🏻 thanks so much! Glad you liked it!
I always wondered what made them pick Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas. I had never seen him in anything other than serious roles. He was great as the straight man on Green Acres.
I think his most common line was
"Oh for the love of..." 1:28 1:28
Yes a great straight man and voice of reason in Hootervile
I always wondered about that first house. Thanks so much for taking us along!
Glad you found this video!
How fantastic that you found that house AND with that tree still intact! CBS became infamous for their "Rural Purge", cancelling the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Mayberry RFD. Pat Buttram (aka Mister Haney) has been quoted as bitterly saying "CBS cancelled every show that had a tree in it".
Ahh yes, such a bummer they cancelled all those shows around the same time. I think they were still doing well in the ratings also?
Got rid of Corn Comedy.
CBS also cancelled Hee Haw during that purge...
At that point, all of the rural series had gotten stale. Mayberry RFD was a shadow of the original series, and the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres had lost their creative spark. The move paid off for CBS as many of the the replacements, led by "All in the Family", "M*A*S*H", and "Mary Tyler Moore" became huge hits attracting younger audiences.
Petticoat Junction and Green Acres are very Awesome shows! They still hold up today.
I call them epic works of intelligent stupidity.
Your chipper attitude is infectious. LOVE your videos. Can't wait to see what you have up next!
Thank you! I try to keep it upbeat 👍🏻 😁
Growing up with all these wonderful sitcoms of the 60s it is indeed interesting to see!
Unbelievable that house and land has survived , thank you for this video
Yeah the fact that that land hasn’t been developed is pretty incredible.
Thank you, those are 3 of my favorite shows ever. You can watch those with your mom, your kids, and your wife and anybody else and no CUSSING !!!!
Thank you for finding this “Green Acres” location also!
So cool that the farmhouse still looks pretty similar to how it did in the 1960s. I had forgotten that this was identified as Newt Kiley’s farm in the show’s pilot episode. Kay E. Kuter did a great job playing Newt. Thanks again!
Same here, after I rewatched the first episode , I was so glad to discover that it was Newt’s place. 😃
Thank you! I loved Green Acre 1st run as a kid. And still watch it as an adult.😊
It's so good!
this is great Stanley, I have been a fan of this show since I was a kid and I still watch it. I hope you dig up some more Green Acres locations....:)
Thanks, I have some other GA ideas in the works 👍🏻
Thank you, Stan! Loved that show back then and still do. Hard to believe they've all passed on.
Yeah it’s a really bummer. Even most of the crew, nearly all of the crew have passed also. 😔
Great job of detective work! It's amazing that the home and farm still exist among the massive suburban sprawl around it.
I have the whole series on DVD. It was my favorite of all of those rural comedies that CBS unfairly canceled in one fell swoop. All these years later, my kids, especially my 11 year old son love it. The absurdist humor still holds up. Thanks for posting this and the one where you found the location of where the barn from the opening sequence was located!
The Thanksgiving episode was an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, and it was probably the biggest crossover episode for the 3 shows.
Few characters were in all 3 shows. Oliver, Lisa, Jed, Granny, Eb Dawson, and Sam Drucker were among those.
The guy who played Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) was in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, but as "Alvin" a studio exec at Mammoth Pictures.
Yup, my home town. I grew up there and also watched the show. My older brother used to talk about the house on the show but being so young at the time I wasn't too interested. Good show.
Stanley, thank you so much for this video. When Green Acres began in 1965 I was 5 years old and growing up in a small town in PA. The opening shots always made me feel at home. My parents loved this show and I know they felt comfortable with the settings as well. I'm not real happy finding out that the farm is in California having always imagined it was Iowa or Maybe Kansas. But I still think it's a beautiful unassuming country home. Thanks for the ride!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks! I’ll have a part 2 coming out with even more GA locations
But wait, there's more! Hooterville's neighboring town is Pixley, and that's also a town on Highway 99 several miles north of Bakersfield. I'm pretty sure Bakersfield also has a neighborhood named Greenacres. And rumor has it that "GREEN ACRES" was painted on the roof of a barn near Tulare so that it could serve as the show's title card.
There is strong indication toward the end of the series that their farm was in Kentucky. Sam Drucker read a zipcode that was suppose to attach to Hooterville. I always thought Green Acres was set in Oregon.
@@ThomasJanik-nf5vi One of the things that was a running theme in all "Hooterville" shows was the actual state in which Hooterville was located, they carefully never mentioned a state, but also gave many conflicting "clues". For example, one time they indicated that Hooterville was in the Mountain Time Zone (two hours difference between Washington, DC), which could indicate Western Kansas or Nebraska (plus the episode where Lisa was accused of bombing Denver via a hot air balloon), Also, there was an episode where towns in New York State were given in reference. There have also been mentions that would have indicated that the town was in Illinois. However, I cannot think of an episode that would confirm California.
@@mrath It was Kentucky by the zip code Sam Drucker referred to.
Wow! How interesting that you found that house! The rest of the show was filmed on a sound stage which meant that they were eventually scrapped to make room for different projects. Great video! One of my favorite shows growing up!
Thanks! I’m working on another GA video … coming soon
@@StanleyFoss Thanks for your response! Looking forward to seeing what you dig up! Maybe you can track down the train that was used in GA and PJ. I heard it was some kind of tourist attraction at one point. Thanks!
@@Modeltnick I think it was up in Oregon somewhere.
Location filming with the real train took place on the Sierra Railroad in California, between Jamestown and just west of Chinese Camp. The railroad and the locomotive and cars are still in existence.
@@richierich2048 Hey thanks for the info! Maybe someone will do a video on it sometime!
Australian here. Watched Green Acres as a kid. I've since visited the houses of The Nanny, King of Queens, The Brady Bunch, the Ponderossa, as well as Rydell High and Thunder Rd, the cake shop of The Cake Boss, the park in Billy Jack, and I recently learned where the bat cave is for next trip. My daughter has also been to the 4077th.
Oh cool, you have visited a lot of locations! I hope to visit Australia someday!
Nice, I also want to visit the 4077th.
Like seeing you point out those landmarks. If I ever make it to California will want to see it for myself. Just discovering there are people like I am accustomed that live in the state. Showing simpler realities really do make a difference. Add to it all those Sumo orchards and I am ready to go!
LOVE this! Funny thing is, when I was little when this show first came on, this farmhouse looks EXACTLY like one in rural NY state where I grew up - a house down from my grandparents and aunt and uncle on Pumpkin Swamp Road! :P! TRUE name! When we were little we would say that to our mom and she would say it sure does look like the house by Aunt Lela's! AMAZING!
Thanks for sharing the location of the house that was shown on the opening of every episode of Green Acres. I love watching that show when it first aired in the 60's.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My friend lived in that house years ago! Paso, Atascadero. We love where we live! Sending her this video right now! Thanks!
That’s so cool! I love that whole area. Atascadero is amazing also
Thanks for taking time to make this video.
Paso Robles? Who would have ever thunk that was the house featured on every opening credits of Green Acres was located! I'll tell you, nobody is craftier than TV show producers. I would have bet my bottom dollar that was filmed in rual Indiana. Thank you, Stanley. More, please!
WOW , Eb & Ralph have done a great job taking care of the Farm House !
Then it couldn't have been them.
@@bradleymiller437 😆
This was very enjoyable to watch. I have a still shot of the opening of the show on my TV right now. No doubt it is the same house and that was certainly a good catch for you to notice and find it. I think you're right about the windmill location also. Too much of a coincidence not to be the same place.
Sure would be neat if you could stop and visit and they would let you inside. Bet that would cause kind of a surreal feeling.
Thank you! Yes that would be cool to take a look inside. I made another video about the location of the green acres barn, that is on my channel also. Thanks!
"It's one of those type of shows to me" - that I had been watching faithfully first run!
(You have a most pleasant presentation.)
Thank you! :)
This was a very sad video all of these fine Actors have passed on and there shows bring back great memories but their show still lives on today and Thanks to videos like yours Thank you.
one of the best comedies ever, Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat were Geniuses, Awesome video thank you
Excellent work, Kind Sir! Super Awesome to see this and another video from you, buddy!🤘👏😁
Thank you! This one was fun to make 👍🏻👍🏻
For me..what got my interest in green acres was the illusion of small town rural life.very believable in that respect and it doesn't take much effort to get into that mindset.great show and i thought Eddie Albert was great as Oliver.
Always loved that show and the opening always made me want to buy a farm!!!
Thank you for finding that! I figured it was somewhere in California but never guessed it was Paso Robles. All I remember about Paso Robles is it was the hottest place in the world when we went camping when I was a kid. I'm looking forward to your other videos.
Yes, Paso Robles still gets crazy hot in the summer - lots of great wine tasting everywhere. Cheers!
I wouldn't normally watch a video about Green Acres, but I've been hooked on Stanley Foss' videos ever since his Fuller House one.
Thank you, appreciate the support!!
Great video, Stanley. Love your enthusiasm!
Well done! I especially appreciated the cemetery spot. I love visiting the plots of celebrities.
I had to go once I found out the two main actors were there. That can’t be coincidence!
Alvy Moore, who played Hank Kimball, is buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. I know Tom Lester, who played Eb, died in 2020, and was buried in his native state of Mississippi.
I'm trying to find this house on a map. I'm guessing you didn't include the name of the road for privacy reasons?
I love green acres!! Didn't know paso played a roll in it. Great video...!!
Yeah pretty cool 👍🏻
Great find!! The internet said a year or so ago, that it was farmland in Thousand Oaks. All of the cast of Green Acres have passed.
Thanks! Some of it was filmed down there. Working on a second video 👍🏻
I loved watching all those shows!!
Congrats. What a good find. I live in SF so pretty excited it’s so close. Totally adding this to my list. Glad you mentioned the dogs. Haha
Yes, thanks! So glad it was under two hours away from me! Yes watch out for the dogs - they came charging down and I thought they were going to jump the fence! 😱
Thanks for finding this. You should try to reach out to the folks who own it. Go to the town or the county where the real estate records are kept and reach out to them. They might even have a story. Filmways was a cheap company. Vic Mizzy (who wrote the music that you are mangling in your sound track) also wrote the music for The Addams Family (another Filmways Presentation). He was told they wouldn't pay to get a singer to sing it. So Vic himself is singing it. On three tracks. So it's likely Filmways sent some young intern out in his own car with a movie camera and said "Shoot some farm footage" and since this house is on a highway the owners probably were never contacted for permission.
Yeah I’m sure the owners or original owners her never payed or even consulted. Also, I had to use a cover version of the intro song to avail copyrighted music .
@@StanleyFoss haha! There’s always going to be a backhanded dig coming somewhere out of the woodwork! Thank you for your research and posting this. Us old baby boomers appreciate the work put into it.
Actually, if a home is filmed or photographed from a public area, no permission is required to publish or film the location unless there is a court order that forbids publication.
I loved and watched all of these shows, in their first runs
I'm 65 years old and always wondered where the opening was filmed at. I thought since Paul Henning spent a lot of time in Missouri he must have filmed it there. Now I finally know!! Thanks Brother!
Yeah it was probably some file footage they used . But neat none the less
That big lake around that area was a Oil Company exploring Drilling in 1954 and they hit Artesian that used to belong to the Franklin family and mr. Franklin was my school teacher at Georgia Brown Elementary in Paso Robles California.
Interesting, thanks for the info!
That was very reminiscent and enjoyable! Thanks.
Good job putting this together.
I remember all of those shows very well!
Very interesting video! 👍🏻
There was a 1950 predecessor show on the radio called Granby's Green Acres starring Gale Gordon that was created by the same Jay Sommers that is in the floating credits for the tv show. Thanks for this video I never knew the location actually exists. I wish you had talked to the current owners.
I read a bit about the radio show, pretty cool. Yes, if the dogs weren’t there I would have knocked on the door .
Thank you for bringing my best memories from childhood.❤
I read online that Hooterville was based on a town called Eldon, in Missouri. I watched the Hooterville sitcoms when new, as a child.
Oh interesting, I never knew that. Thanks 👍🏻
Green Acres was one of my favorite TV shows. Everyone used Mrs.. Douglas's Pancakes to fix their leaking roofs 😃😃😃. About 2 years ago at work ,there were a few of us that were about the same age talking about TV shows. Someone mentioned Green Acres and I started singing the song. When I got to Lisa's part one of the women started singing Lisa's part and I sung Olivers. When we finished we got applause and laughter. Last time I checked only Eb ( Tom Lester) was the only surviving cast member.
That’s very cool! I was hoping you found the barn with Green Acres on the roof too.
Yes, Stanley, can you find out about that barn roof. Did they paint it or was it somehow added through animation, something I believe would have been possible back then.
@@jwr7138 --- I'm not saying this is true but I heard it was painted but it does not exist today.
@@jwr7138 It was painted, not added is post. Looking at it, I wouldn't be at all surprised if I wasn't just painted on canvas and laid on the roof.
GREAT JOB! don't forget the nearby town of Pixley, CA :)
Haha! Thanks! I need to get up to the Sacramento area and see the Hooterville cannonball 🚂
Great idea for a vid. Thank you for doing this!
Nostalgic Americana is always a good subject.
I love it. It’s so funny. I watched a lot of it. The old tractor was classic. A Hoyt Klagwell.
Fantastic! Amazing how much of the land around the house is still undeveloped after all these years.
I stumbled on your video and watched it because of your Green Acres content. I grew up watching “Acres”, “Junction” and “Hillbillies“ and your documentary is excellent. I am going to checkout more of your videos. Love your work, Stanley.
Same here!!!
Hi, thanks so much for the kind words. More videos coming soon 👍🏻
Shows as Green Acres were so stupid that they were funny.
@@HENSLEYMB That's what made them so good!!!!
I live in Tom Lester's hometown , I've sat behind him in church and they would call on him to pray, he was real religious. He had a lot of competition when competing for this role with no notoriety, I guess luck had a lot to do with it. Must have been a lot of fun to meet all those stars while he was doing the show. RIP Tom Lester.
Wow, interesting first hand knowledge. Thanks
One of my favorite shows! Great work! I just subscribed!
Thanks so much! Glad you found this video!
New subscriber here. Very impressive, I never would have noticed the house.
Welcome aboard and thank you!
This was a great video. I loved Green acres
Thank you! 😊
I started watching this year I love Green Acres
I wonder whether the current occupants are aware their home has appeared on hundreds of millions television sets around the world for many decades?
Thanks for the memories !
Hello from Canada - Well done and thank you!
Greetings! Glad you found this video in Canada!
It was definitely one of my favorites I just recently bought the box set.
VERY VERY cool production!
Thanks so much!
Fabulous! I loved this👍. Thank you so much for your research and hard work, (next time I fly down to Burbank I’m gonna check these places out)
I never saw an Episode with the Beverly Hillbillies , Green Acres and Petticoat Junction together.. I have seen Petticoat Junction and Green Acres intermingling.
I think it might have just been the holiday episode? But I could be wrong.
Then we can assume that Hooterville was probably located in California. Plus, there's a real-life Pixley there as well. Pixley is located between Bakersfield and Fresno. Plus the water tower where Bradley girls from Petticoat Junction swam in is located in Jamestown, CA. Otherwise, Green Acres. Petticoat Junction, and The Beverly Hillbillies were all filmed at the General Service Studios in Hollywood.
I definitely want to check out the real-life Pixley and explore Jamestown 👍🏻👍🏻
The 1939 water tower you saw on PJ burned up in one of those sweeping California wildfires about 20 years ago. It was replaced with a somewhat similar tower on the same footing using the salvageable hardware from the original. And, the girls were never actually in that tower. They were standing in a mockup of the tower, on the ground.
@@rotunda57 I saw in in 1998 and was told at the time it was the original tank. Sad to know it was destroyed, but hopefully the replica looks the same.
@@scvcebc Nope, the new tank is smaller and has a roof to slow algae growth. I guess they use so little water from it the roof was needed.
4:43 There is a ton of star power in that photo. Since Gomer Pyle was mention, that means Andy Griffith is in that universe as well.
So true! What a multiverse!
I can't believe the telephone pole is still in the exact same spot!
Yeah isn’t that cool :)
Good old-growth wood!!!
Pardon me for being picky, but there's a transformer on that pole, so it's a power pole 😛
@@rotunda57 They're generically called telephone poles...they carry telephone, eclectic and now cable TV....
This was fun Stanley. Well done!
Good job! I was searching You Tube not long ago wondering if anyone had done and locations on this. So glad you found it. Too cool
Glad you enjoyed it!
If not for the small rolling hill behind it, I'd be able to see that house from mine right off Beechwood Dr! Great work, excellent research on the Green Acres Barn video as well. Cheers!
Thanks! And you live in a great part of California!
Thanks for informing us about this historic home. I was surprised
after all of these years( 60) that it's still standing.I always thought it was in Illinois. I live in Indiana so to me it looked like that.
Yeah it looks like it could be in the mid west for sure
Thank you reminds me when I was just a little kid.
Very cool. I watched Green Acres as a kid because it was one of the oldies that Nickelodeon aired at the time. Don't really remember any of it though.
Glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻
Never forget, it was the network purge of all these wholesome shows about patriotic american rural life that led to all of those sneaky opinion changing " comment on the state of society by preaching liberalism isnt bad" schpiel shows that got us exactly where we are today.
Wow. Thanks for the memory.
Nice job fun to see the house.
Glad you enjoyed it
Loved those old simple comedies.
Just Subscribed to your channel after watching this video 👍
This was a very cool video buddy, I enjoyed watching it. Can't believe all these years that same old house is still standing. Don't know if it has been same people back then living in it or somebody else along the way through the years, who ever lived there sure has taken very good care of the house. Thank you for sharing the story. Now remember time from time they would mention a small town called, Pixley, when I finally gotten married in November of 1989 my wife had lived in Pixley California all her 23 years of her life at that time. But the show was talking about another town called Pixley, not the one from California, but it was cool though when they would mention about the town. I pretty much lived with her and her Mom and her younger sister from time to time if I wasn't working. On days I would work I stayed home with my Dad. I was 23 and she was still 22 when we got married. Been nearly 34 years ago. No longer married to her now, in 2000 we got divorced.
Thanks so much! Yeah , crazy that the house is still there. I hope to explore Pixley someday. Thanks for the sub and comments 👍🏻
Looks like Malph and Ralph finally got the home improvements done. LOL.
Alf and Ralph.