Old Indy Bookends

In the original network broadcast of the show, each episode was opened and closed with a short piece starring George Hall as "Old Indy." These segments were all filmed in and around Wilmington, NC - which stood in for multiple different places (New York, New Jersey, etc.). These "bookends" were edited out of the VHS and later DVD releases of the show.

The "Staten Island" gas station from the Princeton 1916 bookend is now Dr. G's Car Wash N Custom at 2039 Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington. This was also Charlie Matlock's Service Station in Matlock.

The bookend where Indy goes to the hospital for a stubbed toe (in the original Oganga episode) was filmed at New Hanover Regional Medical Center at 2131 South 17th Street in Wilmington (thanks to Stoo).

The shopping mall parking lot where Indy steals a parking spot from 2 men as they argue about it (in the original Northern Italy episode) was outside the Sears store of the Independence Mall, at 3500 Oleander Drive, Wilmington.

In the Austria 1917 bookend, we find Indy with his hand stuck in a mailbox. A postal worker accuses him of trying to steal mail and he begins the narration of the episode. The mailbox was on Princess Street at the corner of 2nd Street in downtown Wilmington. The old courthouse is visible in the background.

In the bookend for the original Benares episode, Indy stops by "Mike's Roadhouse" and has a chat at the bar. This was filmed at the Big Dog Cafe at 1632 Castle Hayne Road outside Wilmington.

In the bookend for Paris 1916, Indy begins his tale after discussing tabloids with a woman in a grocery store checkout line. If you look closely in one shot you can see the logo of "Hill's Food Stores," of which there are two branches near Wilmington. I am guessing it is the one at 5001 Main Street in Shallotte, NC.

In the New York bookend, Indy sees a show in Wilmington's Thalian Hall at 310 Chestnut Street.