Did you know the Dixie Boy Truck Stop was real?

[Bojangles]

Fact #1: The "Dixie Boy" truck stop was a set constructed 10 miles outside of Wilmington, North Carolina. It was convincing enough that several truckers tried to stop in, and eventually the producers had to put announcements in local papers saying that the "Dixie Boy" was just a movie set.

Fact #2: The Dixie Boy Truck Stop was indeed a real Truck Stop in Columbus County, North Carolina. The Truck Stop was torn down in the late-1980s

[Friday The 13th]

Huh... nice info.

[FreddysFingers]

I actually did know that... I look into this stuff when it's late out, but that would have been cool to actually own it. But, I think they tore it down.

[Friday The 13th]

I didn't know it, but now I do! lol

[Bojangles]

Yeah, they did tear it down. That unfortunate because I would have visited the place.

[Friday The 13th]

[dmihatmttl]

A local rumor here in my hometown is that the producers asked to film on-location at the Skyway Truckstop just 2 minutes from where I sit. But supposedly the owner turned them down.

Don't know if it's true or not, but it's a cool story (I tell ya something that is true, though, coincidentally enough: I'm distantly related to the late Pat Hingle, who played the owner of the Dixie Boy in MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE). And now the Skyway's gone anyway -- a combination gas-station/Bojangles sits there.



J.N.

[Friday The 13th]

Dang! ur kin to him?