Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour TV Series 1954 1971 Full Cast & Crew
Table of Content Where is dolly parton? Top cast The man who discovered Dolly Parton: The bizarre story of Cas Walker Although this is an indivisible part of his legend, Cas told me that the whole thing was “a put-up deal” that he’d faked. A lot of people think the resulting assault charge was enough to leverage him out of running for re-election to the city council, something the silk-stocking crowd had been wishing would happen for decades. The next surviving landmark was Eddie’s Auto Parts on our left, which still sits on the little stub of Walker Boulevard that survived the construction of I-640. Eddie Harvey bought a couple of lots from Cas to build his iconic store. Some years later, Eddie embellished it with a sign from the Italian Pavilion at the World’s Fair. In 1929, Walker created a variety show known as the Farm and Home Hour to help promote his cash stores. The show initially aired as a radio program on WROL-AM and later on WIVK-AM. In 1953, the show adopted a tel...