In article <1190975504.412332.188490@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Walloon <walloon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello - my first post to this group.
>
> As many of you probably know, "Hogan's Heroes" was filmed on the same
> studio backlot on which "Gone With the Wind" was filmed in 1939. This
> surveyor's map from 1940 shows where the Tara, Atlanta Depot, and
> Peachtree Street sets stood on the RKO-Pathé "Forty Acres" backlot
> that Selznick International Pictures was renting:
> http://www.retroweb.com/40acres/40acres
plot plan 1940.jpg
>
> Contrast that with this 1965 aerial photo of the same lot, now owned
> by Desilu:
> http://www.retroweb.com/40acres/40acres
aerial 1965.jpg
>
> The Tara mansion was sold and dismantled in 1959, and a few years
> later the Stalag 13 outdoor set was built where Tara had stood.
>
> My question: what is that dark structure at the lower end of Stalag 13
> in the 1965 photo? It looks like it might be the back (unfinished)
> side of a set façade. It's standing almost exactly where Tara formerly
> stood.
>
> Walloon
>
Can you give us those links again? there were spaces in there and I
can't bring them up...
--
Drew
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