Luke Snead (Ike Godsey)

[dderrick2007]

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I came across this on newspapers.com.    This is from a 1937 Times Dispatch in Richmond.  I believe
this is the man who Ike Godsey's character was based on.  

[Easton]

Apparently it is true. I found this:

Back when ``The Waltons' was high in the Neilsen ratings, two or three busloads of tourists would roll in every day to see the true-life versions of John-Boy's house and Ike Godsey's Store and other fictionalized Walton's Mountain landmarks.

There was never an Ike Godsey's Store, of course, but its inspiration - Luke Snead's Store - did a brisk business. Strangers would march right up past the hydrangea bushes and knock on the ``Waltons' front door.

``My mother used to invite tourists in,' recalled Earl Hamner. ``She kept a guest book that eventually had 4,000 names in it. She would even serve tea. But some tourists started stealing flower pots so she had to stop. I think she had some large tea bills, too.'

Luke Snead's Store burned down. Harry Hamilton, who helps his son and daughter-in-law operate its replacement, said a good day now brings in two or three tourist cars.

greensboro.com/waltons-real-and-tv-folk-to-gather-in-virginia-hamlet/article_2c536b2d-98be-58bf-b010-358547a0c227.html

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Didn't a Charlie Snead call JohnBoy, Sprocket on the Hunt episode? 

[Brenda]

May 30, 2021 12:50:40 GMT -5 @tankeryanker said:

Didn't a Charlie Snead call JohnBoy, Sprocket on the Hunt episode? 

I think you are correct. Charlie Snead started calling John Boy “Sprocket” when he was just a wee little baby, according to John.

Also, Charlie Snead (played by William Windom) was the “Robin Hood Bandit” in The Homecoming. He stole hams and turkeys and gave them to needy people. He also let John Boy borrow his car.

[nedandres]

The first time I visited Schuyler in 1988, prior to the Walton's Mountain Museum, I stopped at the Snead's Store.

[patriciaanne]

I believe many local Schuyler names found their way into The Waltons. I know that when I went to the museum, I was looking at pictures of people who had graduated from the school. I recognized many names as Waltons characters. Of course I can't remember them now. 🙄 But I think one of them was Verdie.