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Yesterday in history
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 8:16 pm
by pastorables
Yesterday in history, Billy Jo McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge. Does anyone from that area of Mississippi know exactly where the original bridge was located?
Some may remember Robbie Benson in "Ode to Billy Joe" (1976).
pa
Re: Yesterday in history
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:33 pm
by Sherry
pastorables wrote:Yesterday in history, Billy Jo McCallister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge. Does anyone from that area of Mississippi know exactly where the original bridge was located?
Some may remember Robbie Benson in "Ode to Billy Joe" (1976).
pa
I had a huge crush on Robbie Benson back in the 70's! 
"Ode to Billy Joe" good movie!!
Posted: June 5th, 2008, 2:50 am
by SBW
The bridge (in the movie) is located in Leflore county.....I think. The roads and bridge in the movie are not exactly correct. In the beginning you see kids getting off of a Tallahatchie county school bus near the bridge...could not be possible the way the roads work down there. But, it all made for a great story, didn't it.
Also, I believe the historic town of Carrolton, MS was used in the movie.
Being a born and bred Tallahatchie County native, I can tell you that Billy Joe is not the only person that ended up in the Tallahatchie River. Many stories....
Posted: June 5th, 2008, 2:48 pm
by oletimer
Oooh Pleaseee tell us some of them.
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 5:37 am
by MacUser
SBW wrote:The bridge (in the movie) is located in Leflore county.....I think. The roads and bridge in the movie are not exactly correct. In the beginning you see kids getting off of a Tallahatchie county school bus near the bridge...could not be possible the way the roads work down there. But, it all made for a great story, didn't it.
Also, I believe the historic town of Carrolton, MS was used in the movie.
Being a born and bred Tallahatchie County native, I can tell you that Billy Joe is not the only person that ended up in the Tallahatchie River. Many stories....
I attend church in Leflore County and live in southern Carroll County, MS. Sadly.. this site has and will continue to be a hotbed of racial movie activity.
During the shooting of
Mississippi Masala 1991 (Denzel Washington).. they rented the Church's old parsonage. My young wife and I were living in the apartment connected to it (1990 when shot). After a few days of shooting.. these guys left a HUGE mess to clean up and guess who did it? (bags and bags of food debris, bags full of bbq related meats with flies everywhere!)
It was such a mess.. I hauled most of it in my old 66 VW to the dumpster about a block away. Add that to MS movie history!