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Cooter’s
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After the Sperryville store is closed, the couple hopes to spend more time in Tennessee where they own another Cooter’s Place.
They plan to merge the two stores into one, explained Viator while hurrying Jones outside to have his picture taken with fans in front of the General Lee, the legendary 1969 Dodge Charger parked in front of Cooter’s.
“We’ll be going down there some and Ben will continue to perform with the band,” said Viator.
Jones, the actor who played Cooter on the show and the former two-term congressman from Georgia, works the sales counter at Cooter’s like a man running for office.
Shaking hands and kissing babies, Jones seems right in his element among his and the show’s many adoring fans.
On this particularly warm fall day, Cooter’s was packed with fans wanting to see the store and Cooter himself one more time.
His wife, Viator, saw the huge crowd as an indication that folks sense the end of something special in the county.
“People are coming out one last time to see the place,” she said. “And people who have never been here want to see it for the first time before it closes.”
Fans of the show and of the couple themselves agreed.
“We had to come up here one more time,” said Chris Routh who drove up to Sperryville from Burlington, N.C. with his family to see the store and meet Jones.
“We’ve been here before,” his wife Sue added. “We’re just real big fans.”
Viator said she expects a big turn-out for the store’s final weekend at the end of
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