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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 18:43:27 GMT -5
Interesting. They never said if it was the fan grandpa left on or John boy pipe. I thought it was Professor Plum in the Conservatory with knife... Are you serious!!! It was me, Miss Scarlett in the stable with a hay hook...
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Post by carol on Dec 30, 2020 14:56:44 GMT -5
John said the cause of the fire could have been old electrical wiring. How old could the wiring be? It wasn't until the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 that rural areas even had electricity. wow. That is great point. I never even thought of that
Though if you really think about it when the show started it was 1933 and the house had full electricity and even a water heater and it shouldn't have had any of that at least for another 3 years.
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Post by patriciaanne on Dec 30, 2020 15:37:45 GMT -5
wow. That is great point. I never even thought of that
Though if you really think about it when the show started it was 1933 and the house had full electricity and even a water heater and it shouldn't have had any of that at least for another 3 years. Yep...I thought of that when I read your first comment.
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Post by jason88cubss on Dec 30, 2020 17:12:17 GMT -5
wow. That is great point. I never even thought of that
Though if you really think about it when the show started it was 1933 and the house had full electricity and even a water heater and it shouldn't have had any of that at least for another 3 years. True but you know TV wouldnt let that happen
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Post by Brenda on Dec 30, 2020 17:42:32 GMT -5
I remember Earl Hamner saying that their house in Schuyler did have electricity long before many rural areas in the country did. Schuyler was home to the Alberene Soapstone Factory. Its hydroelectric power plant furnished electricity to homes in Schuyler.
That wouldn’t explain why the house had “old” wiring though. I don’t think it could have been very old.
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Post by dayton3 on Dec 31, 2020 11:32:41 GMT -5
I remember Earl Hamner saying that their house in Schuyler did have electricity long before many rural areas in the country did. Schuyler was home to the Alberene Soapstone Factory. Its hydroelectric power plant furnished electricity to homes in Schuyler. That wouldn’t explain why the house had “old” wiring though. I don’t think it could have been very old. That's interesting to know. There are a couple of reasonable possibilities that would explain John's comment about "old wiring" though. 1) While John Walton was a very skilled craftsman, given the times it is possible he wasn't very familiar with electrical wiring and was simply wrong. 2) The Walton's being not particularly well off might've installed much older wiring in the house and thus John's "old wiring" comment might've been accurate.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Dec 31, 2020 17:25:51 GMT -5
I remember Earl Hamner saying that their house in Schuyler did have electricity long before many rural areas in the country did. Schuyler was home to the Alberene Soapstone Factory. Its hydroelectric power plant furnished electricity to homes in Schuyler. That wouldn’t explain why the house had “old” wiring though. I don’t think it could have been very old. That's interesting to know. There are a couple of reasonable possibilities that would explain John's comment about "old wiring" though. 1) While John Walton was a very skilled craftsman, given the times it is possible he wasn't very familiar with electrical wiring and was simply wrong. 2) The Walton's being not particularly well off might've installed much older wiring in the house and thus John's "old wiring" comment might've been accurate. Just how much would it cost to put wiring in the house? It was during the depression.
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Post by dayton3 on Dec 31, 2020 22:07:51 GMT -5
That's interesting to know. There are a couple of reasonable possibilities that would explain John's comment about "old wiring" though. 1) While John Walton was a very skilled craftsman, given the times it is possible he wasn't very familiar with electrical wiring and was simply wrong. 2) The Walton's being not particularly well off might've installed much older wiring in the house and thus John's "old wiring" comment might've been accurate. Just how much would it cost to put wiring in the house? It was during the depression. If it's was anything like my parents house which was largely built in several sections over the course of a decade the wiring was added at various times and came from various sources.
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Post by gammatammi on Jul 5, 2021 23:22:36 GMT -5
My husband and I always questioned everyone or almost everyone going back in the house without something on the feet and John saying to be careful and it's still hot. I get they lost their shoes and the boys had mismatched shoes but how odd to go back inside when it's still smoldering.
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Post by carol on Jul 6, 2021 0:16:47 GMT -5
4) By the way, any house fire as shown in the episode would've effectively utterly destroyed the Walton home. As someone once told me "when you have flames shooting through the roof that normally means everything inside is a complete loss" I thought that too especially since there was no fire department to help put out the fire. All they had was their garden hose and buckets.
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Post by dayton3 on Jul 6, 2021 8:24:13 GMT -5
They did have the volunteer fire department that included Ike, the Reverend and various others.
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Post by Kyle on Jul 6, 2021 16:39:48 GMT -5
The top floor was fully engulfed - with flames shooting out all the windows and through the roof. Realistically, there’s no way anything would have been left on the second floor - the whole thing would have collapsed into the first floor, and the house would have been a total loss. But hey - dramatic license. And this way they didn’t have to build new sets or a new facade.
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Post by Easton on Jul 6, 2021 17:09:37 GMT -5
^ And the attic and contents survived. Grandma's phonograph wasn't even scorched.
We just have to believe that there were enough people to make enough bucket brigades to quell the flames. And, as Kyle said, it's easier and cheaper to stretch viewers' imaginations and sensibilities and to clean up and repaint the sets than to build new sets and façade.
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