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Almost exactly as long as The Ponderosa did after BONANZA bit Dan Blocker's dust.
Southfork under contract for sale.
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Almost exactly as long as The Ponderosa did after BONANZA bit Dan Blocker's dust.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Has there been any more news as regards Southfork being sold?
Just wondering if there's any updates to what's going on with the ranch?
Just wondering if there's any updates to what's going on with the ranch?
pete lashmar
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Southfork Ranch has been saved. According to Ultimate Dallas It has been bought by Refined Hospitality Concepts and will remain open.
Fantastic news.
EDITED TO ADD...Dallas Fanzine reported the following on Twitter....
After months of uncertainty Southfork Ranch will remain open (for now). A new young management team are currently mapping out its future, which includes a hotel on the grounds plus a new wing added to the mansion. However it's early days but Southfork lives on!
**** Interesting that the ranch will get a new wing, I wonder if they are contemplating turning the inside into the the TV version. Wishful thinking I know, but you never know.
Fantastic news.
EDITED TO ADD...Dallas Fanzine reported the following on Twitter....
After months of uncertainty Southfork Ranch will remain open (for now). A new young management team are currently mapping out its future, which includes a hotel on the grounds plus a new wing added to the mansion. However it's early days but Southfork lives on!
**** Interesting that the ranch will get a new wing, I wonder if they are contemplating turning the inside into the the TV version. Wishful thinking I know, but you never know.
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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Just as long as any new wing doesn't ruin or alter the look of the ranch house from the front.
Apart from that it's great news that Southfork is safe. The house is truly iconic and is just as much a character in itself on Dallas.
Snarky Oracle!
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I've always assumed they were afraid of Victoria's legal team.
pete lashmar
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Laurie!
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Nahhh, her pic is in the other buildings and I believe hidden on a shelf in the mansion. It's definitely to pretend she wasn't Bobby's important wife and one of the actual "big three"...a carryover from TNT's version.
Anyway, it's good that Southfork continues for now
Barbara Fan
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oh she is in good company, Miss Ellie has also been erradicated from SF! No more Miss Ellies room (which was tacky like all the others but nothing beats Bobbys aged 8 3/4 s - I was like - WHAAAAAT??) The outides of SF is fab, the inside is tacky with a capitol T and so small.
Now where is that shotgun again Ray ???
Snarky Oracle!
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Maybe it's time for the HGTV treatment after all...
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Rove
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Yes. Time to gut the lower floor and transform Southfork into what we know and grew up with. Having HGTV with input from the likes of Patrick, Linda, Steve and Charlene would be icing on the cake and give Southfork much needed tourist promotion.
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You could indeed reproduce all the downstairs rooms inside the house -- the length of the house would easily accommodate it. Depthwise, it could be done, too -- although the den/study behind the living room would have to be overly narrow (we never saw the den after 1981 anyway, other than as redressed offices around town). Logically, the den/study should have been placed where the parlor in the real-life house is located, because the fireplace surrounded by the two sets of door would match.
I guess you could keep the real-life kitchen where it is, as it's adjacent to the breakfast terrace outside. But then that puts the dining room (the one consistent with the show) on the other end of the house... How to remedy this? Well, one supposes that you could eliminate that "Miss Ellie's room" downstairs (where they killed JR in the 2012 show) and turn it into a kitchen mostly consistent to BBG's (which places in close proximity to -- just behind -- the dining room). And you could maintain the real-life kitchen and make it "the butler's pantry" for the terrace.
Yes?
I'd turn the single car part of the garage into the exercise room, which is kind of where I picture it anyway.
Upstairs is trickier, obviously. The real house is about 42 to 44 feet in its midsection, while the studio set there was probably close to 65' to 70'... Miss Ellie's room at the front of the house would have to be shallower, and John Ross's room (and that guest room directly across the hall from him which housed Jenna and, later, Christopher) would have to be eliminated entirely. But JR's room (in the back of the house over the sliding-glass door they all used) could be done just like the one on the show (as could the guest room across the hall from him which usually possessed either Sue Ellen or Lady Jessica)... Bobby's room (over the show's dining room) would have a slanted roof, a dormer window, and considerably shallower... Lucy's room I've always pictured over the show's living room, but we never knew for sure.
Too confusing??
I guess Paco, Theresa and Raul all got it on in the basement (where Jock, as we assumed, had hidden the part of that Nazi treasure that wouldn't fit in those footlockers he had buried out in Section 40.
"Dammit Dusty, I have to dig up the yard every time you want your allowance..."
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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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It'll be interesting to see where they're putting the new wing.
As I said earlier I just really hope that it doesn't ruin the look of the house from the front.
The new owners could always gut the inside of the house out and remodel it more on the Southfork studio sets. That would be great for the show's many fans. It would make the house seem more real if the interior resembled what we saw on the show. Hopefully that's part of their strategy by adding a new wing.
As I said earlier I just really hope that it doesn't ruin the look of the house from the front.
The new owners could always gut the inside of the house out and remodel it more on the Southfork studio sets. That would be great for the show's many fans. It would make the house seem more real if the interior resembled what we saw on the show. Hopefully that's part of their strategy by adding a new wing.
Julia's Gun
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I hear from trusted sources that the new wing will be for Valentine Lingerie, who are determined to keep Southfork running and preserve the link to Dallas for another 100 years. A spokesperson for Linda Gray says there will be a giant flashing blue neon sign on top of the new annex, based on her classic poster for the movie The Graduate.
It will all be really tastefully done, Linda's management have reassuringly confirmed and won't make Southfork look like a dodgy Las Vegas shopping mall.....
It will all be really tastefully done, Linda's management have reassuringly confirmed and won't make Southfork look like a dodgy Las Vegas shopping mall.....
Ultimate Dallas has just posted on facebook a message from the marketing director at Southfork and she said that there won't be any new wing or hotel. Southfork will remain open as usual and the visitors will barely even notice that they've changed owner.
So Southfork has been saved!
So Southfork has been saved!
Garry
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For now Karin. The managment company are not the new owner.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Let's take a good long look at the most famous ranch in TV history.
Isn't she beautiful?
Southfork.
God Bless Joe Duncan for building her.
Isn't she beautiful?
Southfork.
God Bless Joe Duncan for building her.
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Rove
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I've been informed those lucky enough to have visited say how small the house actually is. I don't care. To me Southfork is majestic and I still promise myself if I win a big lottery I'm going to build an exact replica of it with the interior based on 4800 Park Lane, Dallas.
I don't give a flying fig if people think I'm nuts. It's my money and I'll do with it what I please. It's my dream.
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Taylor Bennett Jr.
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if I had enough money, I'd do what you said above and also hire a bunch of actors to walk around pretending to be the Ewings, drinking bourbon and arguing and pretending to work on the ranch and have important meetings in town and all that.