Real McCoys locations

[Joe Iverson]

Does anyone know where the Real McCoys' house was located, and whether it's still around? It is a small house with a small barn, and it appears in the title sequence and shows up repeatedly in the series. Sometimes it appears to have a fake hill behind it, and other times it appears to be in a quasi-suburban (almost rural) area with telephone poles nearby. It is also sometimes seen to have a billboard in the background.

I know the first episode shows them arriving at their new house, and this sequence is shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch. The house that is seen in rundown condition in this episode appears in many old Westerns, and is sometimes called the Middle Iverson Ranch Set or the Iverson Halfway House. The house is multi-sided, and the other side is also used in this first episode, as the neighbor's house.

After that first episode, it appears that they re-created the look of the Iverson house on a different (smaller) house, adding the distinctive "rake"-shaped (V-shaped) pillar decorations to the front porch.

Is there a site where anyone has done Real McCoys location research? I haven't been able to find one. The show is pretty steadfast in sticking to the studio and the one house and barn set, but it does have some interesting locations from time to time, such as the old Air Base in Van Nuys, Calif., which appears in episode 3.9, Grandpa Fights the Air Force.

[caladon]

I've ready many times that the McCoy house and barn were on a section of the old Desilu Culver lot. It was also the location of Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show and Camp Henderson from Gomer Pyle.

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