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TheLittleFaerie · 06-16-2021, 10:25 AM

They thought the Billiard room was the dining room, so I wonder what they thought the ACTUAL dining room was for? Surely a house like that would have had a big formal dining room, even though we never see it. In a book of tv floorplans I had, it has the dining room as being right beside the parlor, you enter it through big double doors on the other side of the parlor that we don't see, and you can also enter it from the pantry.

PracTz · 06-16-2021, 10:29 AM

With its presumably very large table and multiple chairs, I guess the Clampetts would have thought that the actual dining room would have been only been used for large scale family reunions.

TheLittleFaerie · 06-17-2021, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by PracTz

With its presumably very large table and multiple chairs, I guess the Clampetts would have thought that the actual dining room would have been only been used for large scale family reunions.

I was wondering if maybe they used it for a slaughter room. Granny had to skin and clean all those opossums and other things she cooked SOMEWHERE lol

PracTz · 06-17-2021, 01:16 PM

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I was wondering if maybe they used it for a slaughter room. Granny had to skin and clean all those opossums and other things she cooked SOMEWHERE lol

I vote against that one since having blood, guts, gore, etc. all over those tables and chairs would have stunk up the entire house in no time flat AND brought in all kinds of vermin and critters that even Elly May would have had no use for! Even in the countryside, folks know that one has to slaughter and clean up hunting quarry OUTSIDE so I think Granny may have done it in the far corner of the back patio on the opposite side of the 'cement pond'.

Maybe they used the dining room to store supplies (and perhaps moonshine still parts). BTW, due to carbon-monoxide poisoning,etc. (and not wanting to chance revenooers being able to link the owners) , moonshine was always made in outdoor stills NOT inside (unlike in 'Beverly Hillbillies' and 'The Waltons').

06-16-2021, 10:25 AM	#1
TheLittleFaerie Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 15, 2017 Posts: 1,948	So, what did the Clampetts think of the actual dining room? They thought the Billiard room was the dining room, so I wonder what they thought the ACTUAL dining room was for? Surely a house like that would have had a big formal dining room, even though we never see it. In a book of tv floorplans I had, it has the dining room as being right beside the parlor, you enter it through big double doors on the other side of the parlor that we don't see, and you can also enter it from the pantry.

06-16-2021, 10:29 AM	#2
PracTz Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2002 Location: United States of America [Happily Living in the 20th Century] Posts: 2,711	With its presumably very large table and multiple chairs, I guess the Clampetts would have thought that the actual dining room would have been only been used for large scale family reunions.