Living on Waltons Mountain

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I really loved the show "The Waltons". I loved their house with the big front porch and the big kitchen where everyone would sit and talk. I loved how they had 3 generations living in the same house, and even though times were tough and they didn't have much money, they always made do and were happy. I want to have a big Walton house and live like the the Waltons. Such a nice dream....

Oh no, wait a minute.... If I lived like the Waltons, I wouldn't be sharing my house with sweet and kindly Grandma and Grandpa Walton. I'd be sharing my house with MY parents, or worse yet, with Keith's parents!!! Yipes, that won't do at all! I want to have a big Walton house and live with Diane and her hubby. Ah, that's much better! We won't know much about running the sawmill, but we'll have a lovely herd of goats.

I think that we need a few more people living up here on the mountain with me and Diane. I was thinking that Jim might like to be Ike Godsey and run the general store. Remember those two crazy old sisters, what were their names? They were always taking a little drink from "Father's Secret Recipe"...sounds like the perfect job for Joy and Julie! I"m not quite sure what we'll do with Wildman, but I'm sure we can think of something. :)

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

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O.K. Sherri, you must be channeling me!!! When I walked along the brook yesterday I was thinking of you and walking with you and wishing that you lived here with us. How strange is that!!! I love you mountain and I loved the Waltons also. Thanks for the lift this morning, such a gray, dismal day needs a little light. hugs and love

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

Oh Sherri, I absolutely love the Waltons, they are my all time favorite show. If life could only be like that! If people could only be like that. My favorite character is Grandpa, I want to be grandpa! If we can go into this pretend world and make things just like we could make it then I want to apply to be Grandpa!

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

Oh, yes, I loved the Walton's too. The way times seemed hard, but yet so simple. I too wish we could live like that. Families just don't sit and get to know each other any more. It's a shame! I am always telling the kids that they can stay with me forever. But on the other hand, my husband says they are out of here when they turn 18, I think he's kidding or at least I hope so. I think I liked Elizabeth, alway curious, and full of spirit. Phyllis

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

I want the swamp in Shrek (complete with the "flush" outhouse ) and a dial up ISP connection :>)

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

The Baldwin sisters....I liked those ladies. Guess we're a bit like them. Two women at the end of the road, my beer brewing in the kitchen.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


Remember those two crazy old sisters, what were their names?

The Baldwin sisters!

Man, does THAT bring back memories! I LOVED that show! I was only about 7 years old when the Waltons first started airing on TV but I still remember it - it was one of those shows I watched with my parents (that and All in the Family).

So, are diane and her husband going to play the part of Zeb and Esther Walton? Who's John Boy?

BTW, I'm *more* than happy to play the part of Ike. :-D

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


Looks like Anne and I posted at the same time. :-)

Here are a couple links I found on the Waltons through Google:

Syn opis and Cast List

The Official Waltons Homepage

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


I was not a fan, but did see parts of it from time to time. If I remember correctly, my mother liked to watch it. I was 20 when the show began, in college, and we all considered it really cornball. However, I always liked Will Geer and Ellen Corby (Grandpa and Grandma). I knew who Ike was and the Baldwin sisters (think they're related to the Baldwin brothers?), so I must have seen more of it than I thought!

Did you know that there was a movie predating the show? Called Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and James McArthur. I remember liking it when I saw it, probably ten years before the TV show came out.

So you think Julie and I are candidates for the Baldwin sisters? I remember them as being nice old ladies -- I don't think WE qualify! WE are the rat-headed sisters! [smug grin]

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


I remember seeing that movie "Spencer's Mountain" also, Joy. I was in jr. high. Guess that sorta dates us!! Count me in as a member of the Walton's Mt. fan club. Loved the way they all lived and loved, but never wanted to live on a mountain. The ocean runs deep in my veins :-)! I do detect a pattern here though. All of us seem to crave that lifestyle...a simple, hardworking lifestyle. They had "less", but really had "more"!!

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

The Baldwin Sisters were Miss Emily and Miss Mamie. I identify most with Olivia. Strong and capable and feariously protective of her family. At night when I'm having trouble getting to sleep I "walk" through the Walton's house trying to remember where everything is. Last summer while visiting my family in Virginia, we went to the Walton Museum which is in the old school house where the original Hamner children actually went to school. The Hamner house is right down the road and much smaller than the one on tv. In the museum one room is set up like Ike Godsey's store, another like the Walton kitchen and another like John Boy's room plus lots of memoribilia and pictures. My favorite is a to-scale version of the tv house, yard and barn. At their gift shop I bought my grandson a tee-shirt that pictures the house and the words "good-night, John Boy" across the bottom.

Wishing you enough.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001



Keith just admitted to me that he doesn't like the Waltons or Little House on the Prairie.....I may have to call off the wedding! :)

I was looking through the cast list on one of the websites. Jonathan Frakes used to be on the show! Keith is a real Star Trek nut, but even that tidbit of information wasn't enough to change his mind about the Waltons.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


Cool. Commander Riker was on the Waltons.

To quote Dana Carvey doing his SNL Johnny Carson impression: "I did not know that. Weird, wild stuff."

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


Yeah, I loved the sappy ol Waltons too.........liked Grandpa best I guess, but may have been biased cuz I liked Will Geer in real life.......a political activist, believe he got in trouble in the McCarthy era, all the best people did!

In retrospect though I never did see those folks workin all that much, at least not the men; bothered me they had virtually no livestock either, and where was the garden?? But they were sweet, and caring, and stuck together right nice. A wonderful fantasy.

If I could be in a tv show though, I'd choose Northern Exposure, my all time favorite. Now THAT'S the kind of community I'd like to live in (in a warmer climate perhaps). Quirky, open though diversified in most every way, and yet everybody gets along and takes care of each other. I don't think I'd wanna be any of the characters from the show though, just would want to live there as liitle ol me....... Loved Sicily, Alaska.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


Yes, I was a big Northern Exposure fan, EM (are you SURE we aren't twins?). I'd move into Cicely, too. I'd go help RuthAnn at the store. I might not be able to resist telling Maggie to get over herself though. Yeah, the characters in that show were very real to me. Don't you wish Chris had a REAL morning radio program? I'd listen to that!

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001

We used to eat supper to the Waltons. Put me down as a fan too. I did see the guys working in the saw mill a few times, granny in the garden and I recall a mule, goat, some chickens and a peafowl.

Another ditto on Northern Exposure too. In fact if you have satellite you can catch it on the hallmark channel at 10PM central time.

As to Wildman How about wildman=Yancy?

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001



I always knew that I didn't fit in here (as Polly writes: "snort!") but I didn't watch the Waltons and I didn't watch Northern Exposure either! I think I might have wanted to live at Timmy's house on "Lassie" a couple of times, though (only with the dog, of course...) Both the mom and the dad were a little, well, silly.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Not to mention Timmy! Loved the dog though, too!

Gee, Sheepish, they even filmed Northern Exposure in Washington State!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001


"Lassie" was another big one for me! And how 'bout "Jeff's Collie"?? Anyone remember that one!!?? When my son was a todler we bought a collie pup for him and named her Lassie. How bad was that!! Well, that's the end of my stroll down Retro T.V. Road!!!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Joy, I think that's why I didn't watch it...so much hype out here around that show...

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Sheepish, are you actually sayin you have NEVER watched Northern Exposure?? What are ya, Amish or something?? Methinks you would have LOVED it!! Really..............honest.........should you let your allergies to the hype prevent you from seein the best show ever on television? It was truly unique. Magical and weird, and filled with love. Hey, I can send ya some tapes!!

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Gee Marcia..........you must be as old as me?? :>)

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

How'd we get this old???

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2001

Earthmama, I may be Danish, but I have a LOT of German (and Irish), too. I guess I'm just **stubborn**!!! I DID watch a few episodes in the last few years of reruns (and in fact, I think Mr. S. had a big crush on the woman with the short hair! He watched too.) My mom has become hooked and watches it on cable teevee early in the a.m. Maybe I'll have her tape some shows for me. I did cut out a picture of someone's cabin from a Sunday rotogravure section of the local paper of a log cabin that had a metal trough in it for a bathtub. We used some ideas for inspiration for the bunkhouse! I guess it was on the show (?)

Too tired to type and really tired....nothing but rain and typing, rain and transcribing, rain and typing, rain and trascribing...all week...

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001


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