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I like reading all this pertinent info about movie locations. Wherever I was stateside or overseas, any movies that I remember as a kid that are classics today, I visited. While working in NO, I went to all the plantation homes that was in the TV movie, the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and then some, the Long Hot Summer, both original and remake (remake was far better), Mandingo with also parts filmed on NO. I got private tours where few people went like the Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, was took up into the high attic to see how the whole structure was put together with pegs and wedges, not a nail anywhere. I went to one and was taken into the old barn, filled with all the family carriages and cars. Back in the early 80s, many of the homes still in family hands. Went back to NO in 2007, Interstates going everywhere, kinda got mis-orientated. Many of the Plantation homes are now really big tourist draws. Chalmette hadn't changed though. I once talked to the great great grandson of Pakenham while in Ireland, he was on a local radio talk show and he was criticizing the conduct of the 2nd Gulf War, that this should have been done and that also!!!!! I called in and started criticizing his GGGrandfather at the Battle of New Orleans. That was the last I heard him on the radio.

If I had known then about This Property is Condemned, I would have sought out the locations.

Don't forget...King Creole.

The next year...Katrina hit. Made me real sad.