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Once again the fellers’ from Pine Ridge mess it up!!
The creation of co-stars Chester Lauck (who played Columbus “Lum” Edwards) and Norris Goff (Abner Peabody), Lum and Abner was as low-keyed as Easy Aces, as cheerfully absurdist as Vic and Sade, and raised The Goldbergs ethnic focus by amplifying the protagonists’ regional identities. As the [...]

Lum and Abner, an American radio comedy which aired as a network program from 1932 to 1954, became an American institution in its low-keyed, arch rural wit. One of a series of 15-minute serial comedies that dotted American radio at its height as America’s number one home entertainment?others included Amos ‘n’ Andy, Easy Aces, The [...]

This is the first Lum n Abner movie made in 1940 by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff.  It was a spin off of their famous radio show of the 1930′s.  This movie is set in the Jot em’ Down store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas.  The local postmistress Alice wants to marry the local Doctors son, [...]

Pine Ridge has never forgotten the comic pair that made the town famous enough to provoke an official town name change. The town is host to the Lum n Abner Museum. Adjacent to the Museum is a replica of the legendary “Jot ‘em Down Store,” the central setting of the radio programs. And Lum and [...]