There was so much cool stuff to see inside Ben ("Cooter Davenport") Jones' scale replica of Cooter's Garage from "The Dukes of Hazzard" at his Cooter's Place in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, that we just had to hit you with some more great photos from our roving reporter Jason.
Photos by Jason; please do not copy without permission.
I love it!!!! Byron ("Coy Duke") Cherry of "The Dukes of Hazzard" sends his sweet greetings from last weekend's Hazzard Fest in Newport, Tennessee. Special thanks to Jason for recording this!
Ben Jones, who portrayed Cooter Davenport on "The Dukes of Hazzard," has a mind-blowing collection of "Dukes" memorabilia, and he's always willing to share it with fans at his Cooter's Place locations in Virginia and Tennessee. Our roving reporter Jason got to stop by the Cooter's Place at Pigeon Forge to behold the to-scale garage recreation.
"I was really impressed by the garage set and the amount of detail they did," Jason says. "I recognized some of the posters and testing equipment they had on the show. ... If you look at the desk you see a pic of Cooter's daughter, and that car pic on the wall I recognize." Fantastic photos! Thanks, Jason!
Jeff Altman, who portrayed Hughie Hogg, Boss Hogg's nephew on "The Dukes of Hazzard," was there at Hazzard Fest this past weekend, complete with a convertible white Volkswagen Bug just like on the series. So cool. He was kind enough to pose with our roving reporter Jason, who offers us these additional photos from the event (see our earlier posts for more!). And there's our friend Byron ("Coy Duke") Cherry! Miss you, Byron!!!!
This author sure wishes she could still take in those "Dukes of Hazzard" events that used to be so prolific in the South, particularly in Georgia but also in Tennessee, where the latest one just occurred this past weekend. Hazzard Fest has wrapped up in Newport, Tennessee, and our roving reporter Jason has supplied us with some great glimpses from the event. We tack on a couple more photos from Jason now, of a "Fall Guy" truck owned by our buddy Kevin in Tennessee.
There were actually multiple "Fall Guy" trucks at the event, celebrating another popular show from this glorious TV era, this one starring our beloved Lee Majors. "This was a used truck from the show," Jason tells us. "The engine was set back farther so the jumps wouldn't destroy the truck. Meaning the weight of the engine in its stock location would cause the truck to land heavier and destroy it."
Photos by Jason; please do not copy without permission
This cosplayer is great -- we're thinking we really would love it if he actually was our Uncle Jesse! Thanks so much to Jason for grabbing this clip for us yesterday at Hazzard Fest in Newport, Tennessee.
We love that our buddy Jason is in Tennessee having a great time at Hazzard Fest. We also love that he's giving us a peek at the event with these great photos. There are cast members there (BRBTV has always wanted to meet Jeff Altman, who played Hughie Hogg with such great enthusiasm on the series!) and lots of other "Dukes of Hazzard" fun.
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| "That Elect Hughie poster is cool, looks period correct," Jason says. Somebody drummed this up for their General in honor of Jeff Altman, meeting and greeting fans at the event. |
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| Who is with our roving reporter Jason? Why, it's ChunkeyMonkey40, aka Derek, avid "Dukes" researcher and YouTuber! He's not chunky or a monkey, but he sure creates some awesome "Dukes" content on his channel. |
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| This awesome Uncle Jesse cosplayer recording a greeting for us -- see today's other post! |
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| Here, Jason is with the "Gingerbilly." |
Photos by Jason; please do not copy without permission.
Our roving reporter Jason is on the scene when this author can't be, at the Hazzard Fest happening this weekend in Newport, Tennessee. And now he's filing his first report, so to speak ... He spotted the first "Dukes of Hazzard"-related car at the Cracker Barrel, of course! These folks are from Canada, Jason learned. More fun to come!
The "Batman Beyond" animated series of 1999 presented a futuristic view of the Caped Crusader, set 50 years ahead of the events of the original "Batman: The Animated Series" of 1992. Besides the scary fact that we're three-fifths of the way to that "Batman Beyond" timeframe here in real life, the series still holds up as a fun alternate-universe sort of view of the Dark Knight.
In the second season of the T3 series, you saw a set of fast-food toys celebrating the series, and now we turn our attention to a 9-inch figure released by Hasbro as the show was airing, a rather Mego-esque approach years after Mego's original heyday and years before Mego rebooted and started producing all kinds of great figures again. I guess that makes this figure even more futuristic, right?
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Some of you out there will have no idea what this Superman Red and Superman Blue business is, and some of you will be like, "Oh, yeah, that's right -- I remember when they did that in the comics." And actually, this DC Comics storyline for its flagship character (well, I guess he probably shares that mantle with Batman) actually goes back further than you thought. To the 1960s. This author was surprised by that when doing the research, and you'll get a little history lesson in the latest episode of Terrific non-TV Toys.
This author was digging out the VHS-to-digital video converter a week ago to transfer a video from a rather old crime scene for the latest true-crime book project. And while I was at it, I was thinking, you know, I've got all those old VHS tapes that are deteriorating more by the year that I should probably transfer, too. I didn't necessarily want to spend the time on it, but hey, none of us have as many hours in the day as we would like, right? There's stuff in those tapes that is highly original and preservation-needy.
So on I charged, all this past week, reviewing video after video. And I decided to queue them up in my other YouTube channel, the one I've used for just playlists of other people's videos until now. (The one that nobody knows about -- five subscribers right now, LOL.) It's my author YouTube channel that's more geared to the non-BRBTV stuff. So anyway, the first one has dropped, and others will follow each Friday.
I cringe a bit. Maybe I'll go hide in a cave next Friday, because that installment will be the very first episode of the very first TV hosting gig I ever had. It's rough in parts. It's 1990s. But it's all in good fun.
This first clip is a promo interview for a book-signing I was doing for my first novel back in 2005:
Saturn’s onion rings, a black-and-white sci-fi movie playing above the counter, flying saucer lighting, and more. Somebody’s got a sense of humor. Love it. New favorite place. (And oh, yeah — the food was good!)
Photos by Billie Rae Bates / BRBTV
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Our buddy and fellow author Jon Hollard, a longtime "Dukes of Hazzard" collector and historian, has started up a new YouTube channel to share the love. You can schedule an appointment to see his "Dukes" museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. We've gotta swing out that way one of these days!
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