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Re: OT: Where Are The Beverly Hillbillies From?

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Subject: Re: OT: Where Are The Beverly Hillbillies From?
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by: Karen Orlick - Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:37 UTC

On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 9:20:08 PM UTC-5, Randall Bart wrote:
> This is off topic for this newsgroup, but it's the sort of trivia which
> people here tend to know.
> Where do the characters on The Beverly Hillbillies hail from? I have
> found two town names and three state names, and I would like to know which
> is (are) correct. It's possible that they come from two or three places,
> one for the Clampetts (Jed and Ellie Mae) one for the Bodines (Jethro,
> Jethrine and Pearl) and a third Granny (Daisie Mae Moses). I am
> deliberately not revealing the town and state names I have accumulated so
> as not to pollute anyone's memory.
> They do not come from Hooterville. They come from somewhere back east,
> and from all evidence Hooterville is in California. There is no real
> Hooterville CA, but Pixlie CA is a real place and whenever a Hootervillian
> went to Pixlie they showed the genuine Pixlie CA water tower. There is a
> town named Porterville about 20 miles from Pixlie, and I have always
> guessed that Hooterville is a named after Porterville, but I may be wrong
> on that.
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Clampetts are from Northern Central Tennessee near the Kentucky line. I recently moved to TN and began to notice all the references in the series. Closest "big city" is Bugtussle, KY - per Jed trying to phone home.

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