Claim: Photograph shows a "redneck mansion" composed of several linked trailers.
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Example: [Collected via e-mail, March 2008]
This pic is making the rounds on the web as "Redneck Mansion" Is it a real pic or photoshopped? If real, any idea where it's located?
Origins: An association with trailers as living spaces may be one of the more common elements of the "redneck" stereotype, but the landscape captured in the photograph displayed above is neither a redneck's idea of a mansion nor some type of low-rent apartment complex. As the additional picture shown below demonstrates, it's actually an outdoor theatre set, one used by the Theater het Amsterdam Bos for a 2005 production of the Anton Chekhov play Ivanov:
Sightings: On 7 October 2013, Jay Leno used this photograph in his Tonight Show monologue, humorously presenting it as a picture of a town built by MySpace to house its employees (in contrast to Facebook's new
Last updated: 3 February 2015