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[Pudgy Jones]

You don't see something like this every day...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Beverly-Hillbillies-original-TV-prop-Granny-statue-Peter-Engler-carving-RARE-/321069526561?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ac13c2e21

[Gilligan]

Now, that is very cool!  Good find, Pudgy!

[sanddunerider]

WOW!!!

[Junior]

This is the strangest and the coolest find on ebay re: SDC that I've ever seen!

[Gilligan]

Now, Pudgy, here is your mission:  Find us a Diving Bell video on youtube!   

[sanddunerider]

Yes Pudgy can so that or...

I challenge How-Do to find that missing video..LOL

[rubedugans]

Hmm too rich for my blood!

[How-doFolks]

Priceless find Pudgy!!

sanddune -- let me see what  i can find.

[Junior]

Got to admit, I'm surprised some diving bell home video has not popped up before. I remember dozens of people lugging those huge suitcase sized video camera units around with them all day, and being taped as me and the other Juniors did line entertainment. Some people did tape part of the ride portion of the show, too. So if anyone does stumble across diving bell footage, please let me know. I'd love to see it.

[How-doFolks]

Junior, do you have a Rube Dugan's Diving Bell Facebook page? I found one & there is a link to a video narrated by Burl Ives called America. In the video, 3 characters do a little skit about the Diving Bell, it is interesting.

I have found pictures on some web-sites, but no moving videos yet. I have tried Google & Bing. I searched YouTube for about 2 hours last night but couldnt find anything. I could almost swear i have seen an on-ride video of the Diving Bell. 

[KBCraig]

Got to admit, I'm surprised some diving bell home video has not popped up before. I remember dozens of people lugging those huge suitcase sized video camera units around with them all day, and being taped as me and the other Juniors did line entertainment.

[Junior]

The diving bell Facebook page and one for the Flooded Mine, are pages put together by someone else. I do have a Facebook page about the old Hee Haw show that was in Branson, and if you go to Facebook and type in "Hee Haw Theater, Branson, Missouri" it should pop right up.
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The "Burl Ives' America" link on the diving bell Facebook page is something I can tell you a little bit about. The half hour TV special aired in syndication in many midwest TV markets in 1978/79. The special was produced in spring of 1978, and was entirely shot at SDC. The theme of the show was how the hard work of the pioneers helped build America. The comic sub-plot was how Rube Dugan hired a big city lawyer fella to help him patient his diving bell. Zeke Hatfield and Sarie Ellen McCoy ride along when Rube takes the lawyer for a test run, and of course everything goes wrong. The geysers flood water, a leak develops in the roof of the structure, and Rube wrecks the submersible. Rube, Zeke, Sarie Ellen, and the lawyer all swim back to shore. I remember watching this special on Thanksgiving Day in 1978 on KYTV Channel 3 in Springfield. At the time, the diving bell was only a year old, and so the TV show helped promote the attraction and SDC. I wish that the PTB would release this special on DVD and sell it in the Hospitality House like they have done with the Beverly Hillbillies at SDC DVDs. Maybe someday!

[underdog]

Can I have a link to the facebook page? I'd like to watch the video.

[Junior]

Go to Facebook, type in "Rube Dugan's Diving Bell" and it should pop right up.

[Gilligan]

Go to Facebook, type in "Rube Dugan's Diving Bell" and it should pop right up.

Cool!  Thanks!