The Andy Griffith Show: Gone With the Wind?

The late Jack Dodson, who played Howard Sprague, tells a story of something interesting he found when he was first cast on The Andy Griffith Show.

He says that the first time he was on the back lot, which was known as the Forty Acres, he went wandering around. “I had nothing to do for a couple of hours,” he said, “and I turned a corner and thought, ‘God, that building looks familiar.’ So I went inside and I saw all these burlap packs with shovels and cooking pots made out of rubber, and I thought, ‘Wait a minute. This is the train station form Gone with the Wind. It had never been used since then because there were still props left inside. Shovels, rifles with rubber bayonets on the end, and even the dummies they used for the bodies.”

Fascinating!