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Old 04-08-2017, 07:26 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON View Post
As the crooks in an "OLD" Western Movie, were racin' to hide behind a HUGE rock, one Guy touched it & it JIGGLED--LOL---"Maybe" it wuz FIBERGLASS STUCCO??? I've seen them manufactured for YARD DECOR!
Once saw an Old Western, with an airplane vapor trail in the distance---LOL, AGAIN!
When watchin' movies, I often tell the Dog, "THEY CAIN'T DO THAT"!!!
Bill W. & Buster T.

Bill, back in the late 70s I was on recruiting duty in New Orleans. I used the weekends to visit plantation homes and a few during the week travelling to and from high schools in other towns. One place I had a personal tour through was the Ashland Belle-Helen Plantation. It has been used in many movies including The Beguiled. They made the back look like the front because the front faced the highway. The prop master built two fake gate post with 2X4s and stucco. The plastic gates they used were gone. Those fake gate post were as hollow as a coons home.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland_Plantation

In popular culture
The mansion was shown in several movies, including, Band of Angels (1957) where it also appeared on the movie poster; The Beguiled (1971), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), Mandingo (1975), The Long, Hot Summer (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989).

BTW, the structure had no nails in it, all built will pegs and wedges, that's not FAKE information.
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