They went to Hollywood but never went hollywood. They had a career spanning almost 25 years in radio, movies and TV.
The museum contains "Lum & Abner" radio and movie memorabilia, museum; old-time small town atmosphere in two general stores that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places; built in the early 1900s Their worst vices were golf and crunchy peanut butter. In addition, they also did a series of popular movies based on the colorful characters. Their humor was clean and honest, reflecting small town life and human nature. The act was memorable enough that they were invited to perform on radio (KTHS in Hot Springs) for a flood relief benefit in April of the following year.At the last minute the boys (Everybody called them "the boys." LUM AND ABNER MUSEUM AND JOT 'EM DOWN STORE Somewhere in the shadows of the folds of the American subconscious are two gentlemen from the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas who were contemporaries of Abbot and Costello and who would have shared top billing with them when they appeared on the same stage.
4562 W Highway 88, Pine Ridge, AR 71961-8056. You've been exposed to their influence on popular culture whether you know it or not. In fairness to messers Lauck and Goff, the stereotype they portrayed was much more sympathetic than the one it replaced.Here's the story of their rise to stardom. United States ; Arkansas (AR) Pine Ridge ; Pine Ridge - Things to Do ; Lum and Abner Museum; Search.
Review … Points of Interest & Landmarks, Historic Sites. Much of the entertainment value lay in the fact that these two performers were portraying an entire town full of characters. invented the names Lum Eddards and Abner Peabody and they did their show as hillbilly characters instead of Amos and Andy. © Copyright 2020 Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism The Lum and Abner show was set in the Jot ‘Em Down Store in Pine Ridge. The smaller A.A. McKenzie Store that was built in 1904 and was originally across the street, just as the fictional Jot 'Em Down Store was on the program, has been moved next door and displays the many pieces of Lum 'N' Abner history, preserving an important era in American life. Lum and Abner's Jot 'Em Down Store and Museum Lum and Abner were radio personalities and actors in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, with a long-running comedy radio program. In addition, they also did a series of popular movies based on the colorful characters. Brochure advertising the Lum and Abner Museum and Jot ‘Em Down Store in Pine Ridge (Montgomery County). Given their relative obscurity today, it's hard to convey just how popular they were back in the thirties and forties.
I'd go so far as to say that much of what people think they know about Arkansas comes indirectly from Lum and Abner. Is this your business?
The hillbilly stereotype that Arkansans love and hate was firmly set in the national consciousness by this radio show. Save. For one thing, their act was a thing of radio. Arkansas natives Chet Lauck and Tuffy Goff were two of the most popular radio personalities in America during the 30s and 40s.
When you watch reruns of Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, the Andy Griffith Show or Hee Haw, you're seeing characters based on Lum and Abner characters. In order to make a Lum and Abner Movie, they had to get Lum and Abner away from Pine Ridge, thus away from all their numerous quirky alter egos which were the essence of the act.
They were natives of the Mena, Arkansas area (the nearby county seat), and the Jot 'Em Down store is located a east of Mena.
They performed behind a curtain while a dummy radio ostensibly played for the audience in the hall. Eddie Murphy can do that on screen today, thanks to advances in movie technology, but such effects were impossible sixty years ago.
On April 26, 1936, the citizens of Waters changed the town’s name to Pine Ridge in honor of Lum and Abner. So their movies never really recreated the success of the radio show.Another possible reason for them fading from the public consciousness is that their private lives were not interesting enough to be recounted by scandal mongers. What to know. 8 Reviews #1 of 1 things to do in Pine Ridge. Campbell Arnoux, the director of KTHS, signed them up for a weekly quarter hour on Sundays at 7:00 pm.
By this time they were both married and had college degrees.) The old store's now a museum and tourist stop. They were talented amateur mimics, and in 1930 they staged a fake radio broadcast of the Amos and Andy Show for the Elks Club in Mena. At the end of the show, the curtain opened and the audience would see that they'd been had by a couple of local boys.
By the end of July they were in Chicago doing Lum and Abner for NBC.So why aren't they as famous today as their contemporaries like Martin and Lewis or Abbott and Costello or Hope and Crosby?
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