Remshaw house
Trivia time! Who really lived in the Remshaw house? What I mean is, the same house was used, in a different episode as the home of one of the main characters. Who was it? Paul Mulik That would be Mayor Stoner. It's about a voter. Laughing Face Hurst, TX ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
party lines
In the 70s in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, TX, my friend's family had a party line phone. I had to call home once and kept interrupting someone's conversation. Even in this century my Grandparents had a similar type phone. They lived out in the country and their phone would ring two shorts and a long for them. Any other types of rings were calls for other people in the area. I don't know if that was a true party line as I don't think you could hear other people's conversations. Too bad, I think my Grandparents might have liked to. Kim - Wylie, TX ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
The Farmer Takes A Wife
Hello, I checked out the episode A Farmer Takes A Wife and wondered how I could have missed Thelma Lou's magic trick, in the past. I noticed something else in that episode that I had always missed before. After Jeff Pruet and Barney leave the court house, Andy is seated and Opie enters the court house. Opie tells Andy that Jeff is standing on the corner picking up girls. After Andy goes out to check on Jeff, Opie turns to face the door. If you look closely at Opie's upper left arm, just below his shirt sleeve, you can see a band-aid sticking out. The band-aid is in the spot where it's likely Ron Howard might have just had a vaccination. You trained noticers most likely had already noticed this, but I never had. You All Have A Mayberry Day! Danna In Indiana ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
a simpler time
Seriously though, I don't think Mayberry started out to be in a particular year. I think it was generically set in a simpler time, and the phone thing with Sarah was a good way to establish that simpler time. Exactly right. Andy freely admits that even though The Show was produced in the 1960s, they were trying to make it feel more like the 1930s. Everybody who watches today feels nostalgic, but not everyone realizes it felt nostalgic from day one. That's one reason I've never been crazy about Mayberry RFD. All of a sudden, the town seemed to jump from 1930-something right smack into 1970. Paul ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
more about phones
I was just thinking how convenient a cell phone would have been for Barney. When Andy and Helen had their day, instead of repeatedly going to the lake Barney could have just repeatedly called them. But after Andy threw his phone in the lake, I guess Barney would have had to come out to find out why he didn't answer his call. Kim - Wylie, TX ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Remshaw house
Trivia time! Who really lived in the Remshaw house? What I mean is, the same house was used, in a different episode, as the home of one of the main characters. Who was it? Paul Mulik Wasn't it Mrs. Wiley's house in My Fair Ernest T. Bass, the brick house that sat next to the Taylor home? Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Anachronisms
You know there were some things out of place on Andy, like the coors beer truck, the train Barney came in on with Tina Andrews had never gone any where near North Carolina, a gold truck coming from Denver and heading to Fort Knox Ky. via way out of the way of Mayberry but as for other things like the medicine hawker, yes Wakipedia may say that the last was in 51 but I know for a fact we had one come through here in the early 70,s, at the same time we had a butter and egg man coming to the house and a company named jewel t that carried open accounts on items such as soaps and home good items going door to door on a weekly basis. My grandma and my aunt both had party lines, I remember as a kid staying all night at their homes and my brother and I lifting the receiever and playing spy listening to the conversations. It was also common see horses and buggies going down the roads in our town in fact we still have the law on the books saying that you can't tie your horse up on the main street on sundays. The point behind this post is just to point out while some towns may have been advanced at that time, not all were and weren't for sometime after the show even went off air. I live on the out skirts of Cincinnati and they had many advancements yet our small town didn't see them until the 70's. Outrageous! Sheer idiocy! I can't believe this is happening to me!! A public utility being tied up like this, You people are living in another world!!! This is the 20th century, don't you know that? The whole world is living in a desperate space age, Men are orbiting the earth, International television has been developed And here, a whole town is standing still because two old women's feet fall asleep I wonder what causes that Yes some of us were living in another world, and what I wouldn't give to have it back... Mike CJ Becker / Ernest T Bass where AMSOM is the http://amayberrystateofmind.com http://amayberrystateofmind.org _ Search from any Web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows Live Toolbar Today! http://get.live.com/toolbar/overview ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
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