Re: Payphone in Mayberry
In my small hometown (Nowata, OK) as a child, we could still pick-up the receiver to speak to the operator. But, as dial phones came around, there was a payphone on the outside wall of the phone company. It had a dial, a change-slot, everything. When you picked up the receiver, before you could deposit your dime or dial a number, the operator came on to connect you. I guess it was a true transitional time in telephone technology! Ed Mease Leavenworth, KS Sent from my iPhone ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Alumni Sighting
Sunday morning on Turner Classic Movies, they showed the 1948 movie "Sitting Pretty".It was the movie that introduced Mr. Belvedere into our culture. Clifton Webb played a male baby sitter.Anyway, in the beginning of the movie, there was Thelma Lou doing some baby sitting for the main family. While the family was away, instead of baby sitting, Thelma Lou was giving a party. When the husband and wife came home, there was Thelma Lou and her boyfriend dancing just the same way that Gomer and Mary Grace danced. Orville Hendricks - Mount Pilot Butter and Egg Man ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Speech in Mayberry
For Aunt Bee and all others not used to 'southernisms', listen to Jeff Foxworthy's explanation of the way we say things. They may not be exactly what Andy says, but it is a lesson in southern speech. There is a town near where I live called Armuchee. Now you would think it is pronounced R-moo-chee. No, it is R mur-chee. If your not from around here, you ask where the extra 'r' cam from. It's the local way of talking. My Mother is from Lenoir, NC and boy do they have ways of pronouncing words all their own. I would imagine Andy and Don both threw in their native ways. Just like we do in Ga. Elizabeth ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
