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I've been watching Hogan's Heroes lately. It brings back great memories I have as a child watching it with my sister and my Dad. And he didn't watch much TV but he loved this show especially Sargeant Schultz. On this one show the ****'s had a truck carrying gold bars that looks like a 48-50 bread delivery truck before Ford in America made such a truck.
That is similar to the 54 B-600 bus the MASH unit used even though the Korean War had ended before 1954.
Hey they are even missing the D. They painted over the letters and the side emblem, but it's hard to miss that monkey face.
Back when they made these shows they never though folks like us would pause the show just to look at the trucks.
WAIT: Is that a steering wheel on the left side of the picture. The FORD is the right direction, so is that a right hand drive?
It's amazing how much these vehicles look like props in photographs but seem so real in a movie. I had a friend who built stage backdrops for Sea World and theaters in Branson and he showed me props that looked so hokey up close but so real at a distance in the right lighting.
I've never seen those pictures before. Thanks for sharing.
Not long ago I got to visit the Hanford Nuclear Reactor site in eastern Washington. Amazing stuff in history!
Not long ago I got to visit the Hanford Nuclear Reactor site in eastern Washington. Amazing stuff in history!
The B Reactor plant is an amazing feat of engineering in a time when everything about nuclear energy was mostly theory, built by thousands of people in a matter of months who literally had no idea what they were doing.
One show I like to watch are the old Adam-12 reruns on ME TV. I love mainly to see the old cars that Pete and Jim drive by or chase. And it's not unusual to see a few of our Ford trucks driving around or are parked in scenes on that show.
Not to swerve the topic to TV trivia but a number of years ago when I think TV Land first brought back the show to run on cable, I heard an interview with Werner Klemperer who played Klink. He was saying when they were first working on the show, He was going to play Sgt Schultz, and John Banner was going to be Klink. Working through some of the early scripts someone thought something wasn't quite right, so they tried reversing the roles and the the characters developed from there. I believe he also mentioned that with all the great comedy talent on that shoe, while they were trying to film, the creativity would start to flow, there was always ideas popping up that would make the scenes even better. I imagine that happens on most shows though.
Werner von Klemperer (Klink) and John Bannon (Schultz) were German and Austrian Jews . Bannon had relatives killed in the Holocaust. Robert Clary, LeBeau, the French POW, spent time in a camp in Poland. He had 10 older siblings killed in the Holocaust.