Shady Rest Hotel - Small countryside hotel in the town of Hooterville on the sitcom PETTICOAT JUNCTION/CBS/1963-70. The Shady Rest is located at the end of a railway line (C.F. & W. Railroad) that runs from Hooterville to neighboring town of Pixley. Widow Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) owned the Shady Rest Hotel and ran her humble establishment with the help of her slow moving brother Uncle Joe Carson (Edgar Buchanan) and Kate's three beautiful eligible daughters Betty Jo (Linda Kaye-Henning); Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) and Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley/Gunilla Hutton/Meredith MacRae). Other locals to visit the Shady Rest were engineers Charley Pratt (Smiley Burnette); Floyd Smoot (Rufe Davis); and Wendell Gibbs (Bryon Foulger); local physician Dr. Barton "Doc" Stuart (Regis Toomey), and later Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart); crop dusting pilot, Steve Elliot-Betty Jo's boyfriend; grocery store owner, Sam Drucker (Frank Cady); game warden, Orrin Pike (Jonathan Daly) and Kate's arch-rival Selma Plout (Virginia Sale/Elvia Allman). See also - FARMS & RANCHES - "The Douglas Farm"