DID the inside of the hotel on Beverly Hillibillies reflect the interior design of the ice cream parlor at the time? Well, not really. The room on TV appears to be roughly the same size, but it was not decorated like that, it really was not too much different than the main room is today, although decoration is different. The interior of the hotel on TV was shot at the regular CBS TV set in California. Only the exterior of the hotel was shot at SDC.
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The medicine wagon in Beverly Hillbillies is the same one that was at SDC during that time. Prior to Rainmaker, the Medicine Show featured a "huckster" professor who made wild claims about the benefits of his home made drug. At the time, candy "medicine" was sold after the show to the kids. Of course, nowadays you could not be politically correct selling candy "medicine" to kids. The funny little medicine show was shipped to SDC in Tennessee, and was also utilitzed for a time during the Dollywood days in some fashion or another. I was surprised in my August, 2010 visit to the park to see what I think is the original medicine wagon set up next to Carrie's Candle Shop. All "medicine wagon" signs have been removed from it, and it has been painted differently...but it appears to me to be the real medicine wagon from long ago. We would have to check with Zephon or Copper or any other current citizens who participate her to verify that. I think the medicine wagon is simply used as a stage nowadays for some of the specialty acts that pass through town, or maybe by some of the resident musicians and entertainers for occasional shows.
