Green Acres Filming Location
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- Go on a journey to find the Green Acres farmhouse. See a small slice of the real-life Hooterville.
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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 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.
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.
I loved how Lisa pronounced it "Hootersville"! 😂
And "Hotscakes".
Also electricical. lol
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.
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"?
The most brilliant comedy series ever in my opinion, thanks for taking us with you
Glad you enjoyed it
I watched Green Acres back then and I still watch the re-runs now ! Thanks for the Memories......... ❤
Thanks to MeTV!🙂
Green Acres was and still is one of my favorite sit coms…the comedy was genius.
It wasn't a Sitcom
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!
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.
I always wondered about that first house. Thanks so much for taking us along!
Glad you found this video!
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.
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.
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.
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 👍🏻 😁
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.
Great job of detective work! It's amazing that the home and farm still exist among the massive suburban sprawl around it.
That is a brilliant and televilogically sturdy piece of work there thank you young man.
🙏🏻 thanks so much! Glad you liked it!
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 👍🏻
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 👍🏻
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. 😔
Growing up with all these wonderful sitcoms of the 60s it is indeed interesting to see!
Thank you! I loved Green Acre 1st run as a kid. And still watch it as an adult.😊
It's so good!
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!
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!
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!
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!
Excellent work, Kind Sir! Super Awesome to see this and another video from you, buddy!🤘👏😁
Thank you! This one was fun to make 👍🏻👍🏻
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.
That was very reminiscent and enjoyable! Thanks.
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 , Eb & Ralph have done a great job taking care of the Farm House !
Then it couldn't have been them.
@@bradleymiller437 😆
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 !!!!
Thanks for taking time to make this video.
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! 😱
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....
I loved watching all those shows!!
This was a great video. I loved Green acres
Thank you! 😊
Good job putting this together.
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.
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!
I remember all of those shows very well!
Very interesting video! 👍🏻
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!
Great idea for a vid. Thank you for doing this!
Nostalgic Americana is always a good subject.
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 👍🏻
Thank you for bringing my best memories from childhood.❤
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 .
Thanks for the memories !
Always loved that show and the opening always made me want to buy a farm!!!
Wow. Thanks for the memory.
Awesome video! Thank you!!!
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 🚂
Nice job fun to see the house.
Glad you enjoyed it
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!
I love green acres!! Didn't know paso played a roll in it. Great video...!!
Yeah pretty cool 👍🏻
Great job Stan👍🏻😎
This was fun Stanley. Well done!
One of my favorite shows! Great work! I just subscribed!
Thanks so much! Glad you found this video!
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.
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)
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!
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 enjoyed this Stanley. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
Great video!
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
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.
I loved and watched all of these shows, in their first runs
I LOVE Green Acres! 💚💚💚
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.
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!
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
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
That was Awesome Thanks!!!
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!
one of the best comedies ever, Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat were Geniuses, Awesome video thank you
VERY VERY cool production!
Thanks so much!
Whoa you just made my whole week. Thanks Stan
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this. I bet your right on the windmill. I missed it when I was there. I grew up on a farm in a NJ version of Hooverville, Delanco. Our house even looked a bit too close to the old Haney place back then. My dad was a farmer but by the time of the show rented out our farm and had a regular job. When on travel I went where you were and the porch had been added to the house in the opening sequence. I also went to Pixley to photograph the water tower once.
So cool you got to check out all that stuff. I need to make my way to Pixley also.
Hello from Canada - Well done and thank you!
Greetings! Glad you found this video in Canada!
"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! :)
Fun video. Thanks!
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 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
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
Love that show..im o!d and watched it when it was on TV...thank u
Thanks for watching! I made second Green Acres video where I found the Barn location. You might enjoy that one also. Cheers!
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.
I started watching this year I love Green Acres
Fantastic! Amazing how much of the land around the house is still undeveloped after all these years.
This was cool. Ty!
Loved those old simple comedies.
OMG!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!!
Thanks 😊 good work.
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!!
Nice Job.😊
Thanks 😁