Bobbie Jo Bradley

Bobbie Jo Bradley is a main fictional character on the 1960s CBS sitcom, Petticoat Junction. Like her older sister, Billie Jo, she was played by more than one actress.

Fictional character overview

Roberta Josephine, in the show always called just Bobbie Jo, lives with her mother Kate Bradley, her great-Uncle Joe, her older sister Billie Jo, and her younger sister Betty Jo, at her mother's Shady Rest Hotel. At the start of the series, she and younger sister Betty Jo attend Hooterville High School, and, as seen in the opening credits, she enjoys swimming in the Hooterville Cannonball's water tower.

When the series begins, Bobbie Jo is a studious, book-loving, well-educated girl who'd rather stay home and read than go out with boys. According to her sister Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo is known as "the walking encyclopedia" at school. This was Petticoat Junction creator Paul Henning's original conception of the character. Midway through the series, however, Bobbie Jo becomes more of a bubble head and more boy-crazy. This change in the character's persona is never explained on the show. The real-life reason for the change is explained in the book Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door by Herbie J. Pilato. When actress Lori Saunders took over the role from Pat Woodell in season three, she played Bobbie Jo differently. Saunders at times gave her lines a "slightly daffy delivery." The show writers picked up on this and gradually revamped the character from a brainy introvert to a "delightfully ditzy extrovert."

Bradley

Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad clearing" in Old English.

Like many English surnames Bradley can also be used as a given name and as such has become popular.

It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic name O’Brolachán (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork, and England.

Surname

Bradley is the surname of the following notable people:

Bradley (ward)

Bradley is one of the 20 electoral wards that form the Parliamentary constituency of Pendle, Lancashire, England. The ward elects three councillors to represent the Bradley area, the north-west part of Nelson, on Pendle Borough Council. As of the May 2011 Council election, Bradley had an electorate of 4,581.

Demographics

Bradley has an extremely high proportion of residents from ethnic minorities; 38.5 per cent of the population are of Pakistani origin.

Election results

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Bradley (automobile)

The Bradley was an automobile manufactured in Cicero, Illinois, USA, by the Bradley Motor Car Company. Production commenced in 1920 with the Model H tourer, which was powered by a 4 cylinder Lycoming engine, had a 116-inch wheelbase, and a selling price of $1295.

In 1921 the Model H continued in production, but was joined by the 6 cylinder powered Model F, also available as a tourer for $1500.

In November 1920, the company went into involuntary receivership, with liabilities of approximately $100,000. Although the assets held by the company were greater, including finished and party-assembled vehicles, along with a large inventory, the company was bankrupt by the end of 1921. Total production of the Bradley automobile was 263 cars.

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