Do any remember this made for TV Movie which became a TV series? The Father comes home from a WPA work project to anounce that hw was going to stay home and start up his saw mill. John boy goes off to UVA. They have a mountain. It's the "Great Depression" . I wonder if it could be remade in some way right here in Fairfax County?

The movie was called "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story" and just like "a very Brady Christmas" will be shown on cable tv (TBS and others) on Thanksgiving day or very shortly there after.

Since "Walton's Mountain" was the name of the mountain the family's ancestors settled on, I do not think it could be re-made in Fairfax County. Unless there is a montain here I am unaware of.

That Being said, Gen and Trickie here could play the Baldwin Sisters and drink "fathers medicine". Gravis could play the shopkeeper, Cary the town Marshall, and Spunky could play the deranged mountain man who showed up every now and then. I know Spunky is (theoretically) a woman, but if Cate Blanchett can play Bob Dylan.....

I know I could die my hair gray and play grandpa Walton. And I would probably spend too much time partying with the Baldwin sisters.



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I remember it. I remember when Elizabeth had the broken doll and how disturbing and sad it was. Patricia Neal played the mom.

Earl Hamner, Jr. based the Walton's and the movie "Spencer's Mountain" with Henry Fonda on his family, which lived near Charlottesville. I once saw the actual house Hamner grew up in in a documentary. It was actually a very small house near a road, not at all like the one in the TV series.

WashingToneLocian Wrote:
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> I remember it. I remember when Elizabeth had the
> broken doll and how disturbing and sad it was.
> Patricia Neal played the mom.
>
> Earl Hamner, Jr. based the Walton's and the movie
> "Spencer's Mountain" with Henry Fonda on his
> family, which lived near Charlottesville. I once
> saw the actual house Hamner grew up in in a
> documentary. It was actually a very small house
> near a road, not at all like the one in the TV
> series.

WTL does this mean you are willing to play dad Walton?

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> WTL does this mean you are willing to play dad
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Only if Michael Learned was back to being 30-something again.

If I remember correctly - Ike the shopkeepers wife was the hottie. And Ike was so ugly - it amazed me.



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One of the greatest TV show openings ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk6CfpFR9NM

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> Since "Walton's Mountain" was the name of the
> mountain the family's ancestors settled on, I do
> not think it could be re-made in Fairfax County.
> Unless there is a montain here I am unaware of.
>

What about Mount Trashmore? We could submit a script based on current conditions.

Johnboy mis invested his earnings from his screenplays and inheritance and has come on hard times. He has been out working on the infrastructure but yearns for something like he had back on Walton's Mountain. He's not afraid of hard work like he used to do growing up. It would be like the Walton's but something right here in Fairfax County. Something more could relate to. He would be folksy and wise and contemporary too.....

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> What about Mount Trashmore? We could submit a
> script based on current conditions.
>

Or, you could go the sleazy way and cast Fairfax County's own Amanda Wenk in "Walton's Mountin'"...

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?40,file=28,filename=asdd.jpg

There would be a core group a sort of pseudo family. they are living in a old bus and like All situation comedy families have the villain who might come and evict them at any moment. Maybe that could be the board of supervisors who might make appearances on the show. Anyway the core group consist of various displaced excentris nomadic's who never the less bond and create unity which is a component of almost all TV shows. There exists this kind of great unity on TV maybe lacking in many peoples lives. Anyway John boy occasionally has flash backs back to his rural Virginia roots. There would be a young man coming of age in high school and doing well despite his precarious home life. Instead of the recipe there are two old spinster hippie types cookie but lovable. Each episode could revolve around some kind of crisis that is resolved by the families cohesiveness despite thier precarious leasehold on life. I think we'd have a great series and there would even be spin offs.

I have been in Ike Godsey's Country Store (the new one, and the old one). Once you cross the bridge into Nelson Couty, it is on the right after the curve. There is a billboard for Walton's Mountain facing the other direction accross the road from the the Country Store.

Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) the youngest daughter from the show relocated to Nelson Counny (Home of the Waltons) after visiting in the late 80's. She became an elementary school teacher, taught in Nelson County for over 10 years, and was their local celebrity. She moved back to California about five years ago.



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> Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) the youngest daughter from
> the show relocated to Nelson Counny (Home of the
> Waltons) after visiting in the late 80's. She
> became an elementary school teacher, taught in
> Nelson County for over 10 years, and was their
> local celebrity. She moved back to California
> about five years ago.

That's kind of sad, when you think about it. It was like she was trying to live the life of the fictional character she portrayed as a child. I wonder if she identifies more with Elizabeth than herself?

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> Or, you could go the sleazy way and cast Fairfax
> County's own Amanda Wenk in "Walton's
> Mountin'"...

Now that she's definitely older than 18, I have a much more personal role that I would like to cast her in.

Does she have an agent I can contact?

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> > Mountin'"...
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> Now that she's definitely older than 18, I have a
> much more personal role that I would like to cast
> her in.
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> Does she have an agent I can contact?


I am sure she is represented. you can write her at 7425 ARIZONA AVE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045

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> > > County's own Amanda Wenk in "Walton's
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> > Now that she's definitely older than 18, I have
> a
> > much more personal role that I would like to
> cast
> > her in.
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> > Does she have an agent I can contact?
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> I am sure she is represented. you can write her at
> 7425 ARIZONA AVE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045

Sweet. Do you wanna be the key grip in my movie?

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> Sweet. Do you wanna be the key grip in my movie?

I am not exactly sure what a key grip does, but if she signs on, I am interested.

Oh, it's an awesome job. You're the grip foreman, and you also frequently double as the safety supervisor for the movie crew.

Granted, the only movie crew is going to be me with a camcorder and her, so you'll probably have a lot of free time on your hands.

Remember the Waltons episode where they thought there was a ghost in the house and it turned out it was excess energy being admitted from Elizabeth? Yeah, it was in one of the last seasons when virtually none of the original cast was still on the show and yeah it sucked.

remember when john boy said, "dad you have a super mullet?" and daddy walton said "john boy im gonna take you out to the woodshed and give you a super whoopin you lil perezhilton lovin wussy boy?" sigh I love foamy the squirrel.

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> remember when john boy said, "dad you have a super
> mullet?" and daddy walton said "john boy im gonna
> take you out to the woodshed and give you a super
> whoopin you lil perezhilton lovin wussy boy?"
> sigh I love foamy the squirrel.


I think I do remember that. And then I thought - "wow, they just jumped the shark".

After spending Thanksgiving down in Nelson county, I think I may have just encountered the re-incarnation of the Waltons.... If you want to learn about "the rest of the world", you really should spend some time outside of the city environment... (further out than Winchester!)

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> After spending Thanksgiving down in Nelson county,
> I think I may have just encountered the
> re-incarnation of the Waltons.... If you want to
> learn about "the rest of the world", you really
> should spend some time outside of the city
> environment... (further out than Winchester!)

It seems everyone in the county goes to that gas station/rest stop/restaurant to just "hang" until like 2:0 AM every Friday and Saturday night. Nothing else to do, I guess.

or they hang out at http://www.rapunzelscoffee.com/index.htm Rapunzels.

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> > After spending Thanksgiving down in Nelson
> county,
> > I think I may have just encountered the
> > re-incarnation of the Waltons.... If you want
> to
> > learn about "the rest of the world", you really
> > should spend some time outside of the city
> > environment... (further out than Winchester!)
>
> It seems everyone in the county goes to that gas
> station/rest stop/restaurant to just "hang" until
> like 2:0 AM every Friday and Saturday night.
> Nothing else to do, I guess.


"Hangin at the DQ" is a long traditional in small towns and rural areas. The DQ is THE HAPPENIN' place and teenagers to grandparents all flock to the DQ and spend hours on the benches outside or just loitering around the parking lot waving to old friends and soon to be new ones.

It is sort of like The Ambassadors Ball or the Kennedy Center Honors here. The goal is to "see and be seen" - only it is at the DQ and not the Capitol Hilton.

So tell me exactly where this place is. I will look at opening a DQ there.

Nelson County, just (a bit) south of Charlottesville on Rt. 29, Home to Wintergreen.

http://www.nelsoncounty.com/

http://www.wintergreenresort.com/

I remember once in Orange Virginia people hanging out was discouraged. Loitering as a problem.ting about it on Radio Orange. I wrote the paper telling them about the trend nationally to be disfamiliar and the book a Nation of Strangers by Vance Pakard. I get no sence of community by hanging around the Tysons Corner Mall.

I used to remember checker games at old country stores in Madison. Once I asked the Reston community Center if they had any checker games. They did and I was able to get a game going.

Why is it all the people who ruminate about how great small town life is do it in scripts, books and stories they write in their Malibu Beach houses, New York loft apartments, Miami condos and DuPont Circle Townhouses?

Funny. Once "small town folk" get a college degree, they get as fucking far away as possible from the "Joe the Plumbers" of the world.

or indeed of they cast them for TV cast them with midwest accents.


Though I think there is a yearning for community in modern man. We all lived in villages until the industrial revolution. In such villages everyone knew everyone from when they were born until they died. Think about that.

Immigrants and thier immigrant community bring a lot of that community with them.

I think not hot.
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Would hit (2nd picture, Im no pedo) in a pinch but looks like she already hit the wall.

WOULD NOT HIT.

Remember the episode where Jim Bob could not stop drawing pictures of dicks?

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> Nelson County, just (a bit) south of
> Charlottesville on Rt. 29, Home to Wintergreen.
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> http://www.nelsoncounty.com/
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> http://www.wintergreenresort.com/


I went to Wintergreen on a guys weekend ski trip. AKA (drink kegs of beer all day, chase women in the lodge and get laid.)

On the way back I saw a sign for Walton's mountain so I was going to swing through the mountain. The guy riding with me said oh hell no. LMAO

Didn't John Boy get his truck stuck something on the mountain in the Thanksgiving movie.

Damn the whole movie is on youtube. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEEnFtmV0I

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> > Charlottesville on Rt. 29, Home to Wintergreen.
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> > http://www.wintergreenresort.com/
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> I went to Wintergreen on a guys weekend ski trip.
> AKA (drink kegs of beer all day, chase women in
> the lodge and get laid.)
>
> On the way back I saw a sign for Walton's mountain
> so I was going to swing through the mountain. The
> guy riding with me said oh hell no. LMAO
>
> Didn't John Boy get his truck stuck something on
> the mountain in the Thanksgiving movie.

Ah and there's the answer - at 1:19:30 on the youtube link.

Ike Godsey's store is still open for business but all they sell is local wines, apple cider and tourist stuff like tee shirts and bears carved out of wood.

Jim Bob turned out to be a goofy looking fuck, yea right!! he's a pilot alright. The only piloting he does is working the kiddie airplane ride at the County Fair and Carnival as a Carny.

At least one of them would have to be transgender. That would get them a reprieve from code compliance for their shambolic house.

One of them would run for school board, but lose to an Arabic language teacher with suspected ties to ISIS. John Boy would write a short story about it.

Rod Wrote:
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> Do any remember this made for TV Movie which
> became a TV series? The Father comes home from a
> WPA work project to anounce that hw was going to
> stay home and start up his saw mill. John boy goes
> off to UVA. They have a mountain. It's the "Great
> Depression" . I wonder if it could be remade in
> some way right here in Fairfax County?


Sure they could, and instead of dealing with the Great Depression the issue could be dealing with a influx of Spics and Koreans.

Add in some violent Niggers just to round out the storyline.