Did you know the Dixie Boy Truck Stop was real?

[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.