Real Location:
Looks like "Hooterville" was a joke; there's a question posted now about the location, and the seller says it's Hutchinson, KS. That's where "Picnic", with Kim Novak and William Holden, was filmed in 1955. I wonder if some local person, totally swept off their feet by the sight of Kim and all that glamour, hustled down to the local appliance store to buy the most futuristic, Hollywood, glamorous stove they could find? This looks to be from about that time frame.