Have updated my Email address 3 times to _CTMIDWAY58@AOL.COM_
(mailto:ctmidwa...@aol.com) but mail still goes to CTMIDWAY57.
Can you correct this please??
Thanks!!
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Just one place I would want to photographthe switchboard with Sarah
sitting at the controls!!
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Was watching an oldreally old...episode of The Rifleman last night and
it was called the Hangman. And who else was it than Denver Pyle, shoring up
his gallows to hang another guilty party. The townsfolk were all up in
arms and ready to hang the guilty man without even a trial until Lucas
Just thinkjust over 7 months until Mayberry Days again!! The most fun
time you can have in your life, so make plans to attend NOW. If you need
hotel/motel reservations, do it NOWa month from now may be too late, but
you can still get rooms in Winston Salem or Hillsville Va, each
Only one answer.and I am sorry, Barney, but I would have to choose
Thelma Lou!! Beautiful, witty, intelligent, has a good job, likes outdoors,
nice lady, dresses nice. What more could you ask for? And where would we go?
To the Bluebird of course, and stop at Snappy Lunch for a snack!
I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year, but I don't have time.
Otis just called and said he had a fresh batch from an unnamed source and
wanted me to come over, so I better go over to help Otis with this problem.
Don't want him riding my newest cow down the street. Gotta run. Catch
Christmas greetings to the entire Mayberry community!!
Sometime tomorrow, stop for just a few minutes and remember the Person
whose life we celebrate! Make it a Mayberry time, which is remembering the
Reason for the Season, a change of heart, sharing of bounty, and forgiveness.
Also
Bee may not be the way to spell Beatrice but on Frances Bavier's stone in
Siler City it has 'Aunt Bee' engraved in stoneso that ends any
controversy!
Welford TheCameraNuttand I gots a photo of it!!
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While watching The Outlaw Josie Wales last night I see Olan Soule with a
bit part, and he was not directing the choir this time!
Have never seen the move all the way thru, but have seen bits and pieces
enough to know what it is! Great movie, right, Mr. Wilson?
Welford the CameraNut
You may have Praying on your mind, but on the other hand, something is
Preying on your mind.
Praying is talking to God.
Preying is more or less stalking or going after something stealthily.
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My wishes for the Mayberry community is to have a wonderful day, and to not
forget the reason for the day. This is NOT Turkey dayit is
THANKSGIVING day. A day for giving thanks to God for our many blessings, one
of which
is the Andy Griffith Show's lessons on living.
Thank you to each
The one thing from the show I would rather have than anything is the
candlestick phone!!
I guess it is too late to ask for Thelma Lou??? What a lady!!
And Andy's old pickupthe one Aunt Bea was about to leave in??
So many things!!
Welford TheCameraNuttt!!!
We went by Crabtree Mall for lunch today, and as we started to go under the
parking deck, we noticed the outside of a place called Andy's. On a pole
over the restaurant was a car! A real car! Now what kind of car would be
good to put over Andy's? And Edsel, of course!! And there it was, a
Howdy and welcome to the new members of the digest.
And for any who think they know the show really well, come to Mayberry Days
and get in the trivia contest. THAT will test your knowledge of the show!
The one this year was the toughest I have ever seen, with the past
champions, who always
Howard Morris died in Sept. 2005. He had been to Mayberry Days in '03 and
we had looked forward to seeing him again, but he got sick and didn't make
it back, then died in '05. Sad day in the neighborhood!
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My post was in errorhe was born in September but died May 21.
2005sorry for the misinformation...
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Head Goober Jim Clark Email me for info on photo processing!!
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Maybe my eyes deceived me, and I need to look again. When Opie the Birdman
played, and Andy walked over to open the window so Opie could hear the
orphan birds, the camera went back to Opie and the nightstand and it looked
like a .45 pistol on the table??? What was it? I know my eyes aren't
Sorry, Scamp!! My brain was tired when I was posting my report and it just
didn't come to me right away!! I congratulate you on a fantastical win on
some really hard questions!
I see my report was shortened on the latest digest...but the original
version went thru with no problems, and the
The Postal Service announced it was no longer requiring a waiting period of
5 years to make a stamp of a person and would make stamps for living
persons, so why not ANDY??? Why not the whole cast of The Andy Griffith Show?
A
whole sheet of stamps to commemorate the characters on the show,
Thursday, Sept. 22:
Car had been mostly loaded the evening before, so finished loading what was
left and got under way about 0750. Traffic was heavy on I-540 so turned
off on US-70 to I-85 and headed on to Mayberry!
We made one rest stop outside Greensboro and made it the rest of the way
I was going through my old Navy diary and listed on Sunday, January 19,
1958, I found this entry:
Off Midwatch. [Midnight to 0800] Went back over [To Sand Island] to
church. Went to matinee, Scaramouche. Went at night saw Face In The Crowd.
[stars Andy Griffith]
That was while I was with
As any good choir member knows, it is good ole FOURTEEN A
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Just to give you a heads up, I have two Andy Griffith records I am donating
to the silent auction, unless I forget and leave them home!!
First:
Destry Rides Again with Andy, Delores Gray and Jack Prince
Second:
Andy Griffith - Just For Laughs...contains
What it Was Was Football
Make
Thanks for the old 1993 synopsis of Mayberry Days, Allan!! It sounded
just like the first time we went in 1998 and got hooked on ithaven't missed
a year since! And I miss Phil Lee as Ernest T...he was so good at it. He
lives about ten miles from us but we never see him any more, so
I am amazed no one has yetor if they have I missed it...named the all
time best song on TAGS
Good old 14AWelcome Sweet Springtime We greet thee in
song...Classic!!!
Mr. Sims TheCameraNuttt!!!
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In the top 10 list of characters for Don Knotts one was omitted:
The nervous little man on the Steve Allen Show!! That was his big break
into comedy as far as I am concerned, and it only went on to bigger and better
from there!!
Barney was just an extension of that nervous little man!!
Atta
Mayberry On Main will get the Barney Fife cookie jar!
Sorry to all the ones who missed out. Will keep my eyes peeled for any more
items.
I have some items for the Silent Auction in September, including 4 Jim
Nabors albums and one cassette tape, double album, plus a large 11x14 photo of
Went to a consignment shop today and they have a Barney Fife cookie
jar...his cap is the lid...stands probably a foot high or so$45. Any
takers,
quickly? It may be gone soon!! If it is still there I can get it and ship it
to you
Mr. Sims TheCameraNuttt!!!
Thanks, David and Patty for such a vivid description of what you went
through. I am glad the Mayberry contingent came through it by the power of
God's
grace!
I can not imagine how it is there, even when I go to our daughter and son
in laws neighborhood where one street was damaged from end
I will beg to differ on the countdown to Mayberry Days not starting yet
Countdown to the next Mayberry Days starts the day the present one ends!!
Haven't done much lately on the groupand now Carol is down with
pneumonia.
Welford TheCameraNu!!!
Watching the 1945 version of State Fair last night, starring Dick Haymes
and Jeanne Crainethe announcer in the hog judging pavilion was John
Dehner, the Colonel, and he didn't have any elixir with him! And the judge who
gave Mr. Frake the Blue Ribbon? Have mercy, it was Ben Weaver!!
Watching the old 1995 movie Last of The Dogmen with Tom Berengersaw
an old guy in it who looked kind of familiar and sounded even more familiar.
Found out shortly it was none other than Mayor PikeHarley Baer!!
Or for the real old timers like me, Chester on the radio version of
Gunsmoke
The Newsome card is ANewsome!! That's a new word nowcross of A.
Newsome and Awesome!!
Wish I had been born smart instead of so daggone good lookin'!!!
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I would be Mr. Schwamp!!! Man of few words, always smiling, friendly,
must have had lots of friends the way he got around! And later everyone would
wonder who in the world I was!!
WelfordTheCameraNu!!!
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To Ernest T, Alan Melville, Andy and Barney, Dud Wash, and all the others
who served.
Happy Veterans Day!!
Ernest T, Howard Morris, noticed the cap I was wearing at Mayberry Days in
2003, which is NavComU43 Midway Is, and he asked if I was on Midway, I
told him I was and he told me he
Well, Aunt Bea's tombstone, if I remember k'rectly, it says Aunt Bea and
To Live In The Hearts of Those You Love is To Never Die
As long as we p'rnounce it k'rectly way I look at 'er, don't make no
difference how we spells it!!
Call an apple pie an appul pie, it still tastes the same!!
As fer
The surprise guest was someone who started going to Mayberry Days at age 8
and is now 19, is confined to a wheelchair, basically, and has made a ton
of friends at the Days! For everyone who has met Kyle Butler we are so
proud to say he received the Key to Our Hearts award and Plaque last
Hit the downtown about 7:45 and got a parking spot on Main st., ate our
breakfast and got ready for the parade. It started right on time and what a
parade it was! Longest so far at just over an hour! I think our first one back
in '98 was about 20 minutes. After the parade we roamed in a few
Surprise and no surprise!!
Dennis Beale won the trivia contest again...but only got what...17 correct?
they were tough!!! I mean Really tough!! Pat Bullins, champ for 6 consecutive
years got only 15 of the 22 right. It has been a miserably hot and humid day
today but we all had a great time.
We arrived in time to have our pork chop sandwich and for the first time in 13
years we saw a line for Snappy Lunch on Thursday! I hope they all enjoyed
theirs as much as we did!
Got checked in at 1:30 and unloaded the luggage, went to hospitality room and
had some hot chok-lit and read the
Has anyone decided which place we will meet for lunch after Church services
Sunday AM?
Last year half went to Golden Corral and the other half went to Sagebrush.
Hope we can all go to the same place this year!! Too much fun to be had
and don't want to miss one sniglet or giggle, much less a
Are you sure Dooley wasn't his first name? Y'know in the Loretta Lynn
movie her husband was nicknamed Dooley Lynn so maybe they were singing about
him?
But 'round about Mayberry it could have been Beasley or Bass, or maybe
Brendlemightor Lesch.
Take yer choice!
TheCameraNuttier
Could be Mayberry Squad Cars in North Carolina get away with having red
lights on them is because NC police use blue lights. Red lights are for fire
engines and EMS and a Mayberry car does not resemble either of them!!
That's my story and I'm a'stickin' with 'er!!
Weford
I know this has been mentioned b4 but let's give it another go for the
newcomers.
Bonnie and Clyde, the movie from 1967 or 68 starring Warren Beatty and Faye
Dunaway also had several TAGS characters in it.
Cousin Virgil found what he could dohe could work on cars and drive
getaway
Was watching the old movie from 1968 called Firecreek and poor James
Besthe done got shot in the back!! What an awful way to go, but evidently
he
survived and has done very well for hisself!! Understand he even followed
in the footsteps of his friend Sheriff Andy Taylor and became a
Does anyone know where Ernest T Bass got the sack he carried his rocks in?
Simple.
FROM 5TH AVENUE SACKS!!!
Welford theCameraNuttt and getting nuttier!!
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While on a recent trip to Alaska, we visited a Sea museum. They have a
touch tank where you can handle the starfish, etc. One of the people there to
assist and answer questionswill, I did a double take. All he needed
was a 5 gallon can and start singing Old Aunt Mariah or heave a rock!
Larry in Lincolntonif you're from NC you should know when you see the
governor you can not shake his hand. Him is a her..didja forget
Beverly Perdue?
We went to Mt. Airy Thursday...took a couple from our church who had never
been. He is 81 and has health issues, but did pretty good
On Turner Classics last night I caught a bit of They Walk By Night and who
in that old movie was driving intoxicated? Well, they actually said Are
you driving DRUNK??
Poor old Ben Weaver been sipping in his back room again! Yep, one and
only Old Ben, driving drunk!
The movie was from
In tonight's episode of High Noon in Mayberry Barney received an
investment check for 27 cents. Just wondered what that might be in 2010
money.
Anybody know?
Of coursein 2010 money it would be worth a dime!!!
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Was just watching the old 1949 movie All The King's Men and one of the
members of the city council was a cigar chewing Ben Weaver!! Never knew he
liked cigars...maybe he was too tight to buy any while on TAGS!!
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According to the urban dictionary, the phrase comes from the old days when
a lock was a plate mounted below the doorknob. When you turned the key, it
gave a definite Click or Tick when the lock closed.
So, to tick a lock meant you had turned the key so the door (mouth) was
locked.
But,
I have a great idea for Andy and a TV special:
Andy has played a sheriff and also a lawyer, as well as the bad guys.
So...now, lets have Andy play the part of a Judge, with some big name
players as the lawyers and criminals. That's redundant...big name players to
play the part of the crooks
John Dehner, the medicine man who got all the ladies smashed with his
tonic, was killed by Gary Cooper in a movie a couple days ago. It was a western
so I don't think they used real bullets since there was no blood.
He could have used some of his magic elixir to fix hisself up again!
I too received and email from Tom K. I kinda had suspicions of it being
a scam so forwarded it to the security division of AOL for their
investigation.
If these people who are so smart would get a job they could make a lot more
money and it would be legal without jail time added on!!
Lots of you are getting snow right now and more are expecting snow. Wonder
why none of the scenes of Mayberry were filmed with snow, since it is at
the foot of the mountains! Wouldn't it have been a hoot to see Ernest T Bass
bust windows with snowballs instead of rocks? And to have one
I will be shutting down in a couple days, heading to Florida to see my
sister and bro in law, then from there will head down the Gulf Coast where I
will meet up with a guy I was stationed on Midway Island with and have not
seen since July 24, 1958! So, until we return and sign back on,
Still reeling from Mayberry Days! What a great time we had! If you don't
have a good time it is your own fault! We always show up on Thursday and
head for Snappy Lunch first thing and that gets us in a good mood and it is
on an even keel from then on!
I have been relegated to my cell where
Just watching the Barrett Jackson auction from Las Vegas and they had a '63
Ford Galaxy Squad car autographed on the driver's side door inlarge
handwriting by Don Knottssold for $110,000!!
Save your Mayberry Money, Boys, them Squad Cars gonna rise again!!
Now since Karen Knotts has visited Mayberry Days and seen all the wonderful
folks, is there a chance they may re-think their decision and allow a
statue of Don at Mt. Airy? What a great tribute to one of the comedic talents
the world ever knew! Hope they will allow it now!!
TheCameraNuttt
I am going to try to read my scribbled notes and give an account of
Mayberry Days, so here goze:
9-24: I awoke at 2:15 AM and never got back to sleep! On top of that,
instead of taking one of my Lyrica capsules I took 2, and that causes
drowsiness but I had a full power Dr. Pepper and the
The one to always make me laugh is Barney and The Choir...when he does the
solo to a really hot mike, that getz me every time!
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For those who wish to meet up, the internet group normally meets on the
hill at the amphitheater immediately after the trivia contest on Friday, and a
bunch of photos are taken!! It is always fun to see old members and to
greet new ones, so any of you going to the days, meet at the
What Mayberry really needs is a Krispy Kreme Donut shop!! Can you imagine
the bizness they would get!?!? Why Barn may even put on a pound or two of
muscle if he ate a couple!!
Tiz less than 2 months til the dayz and I can hardly wait! Now I can say it
is next month since this be the one-th
After the stroke, Floyd never walks again in the series. If you watch his
left arm, he never uses that again either. It is at his side, normally on a
chair armrest, or resting on the back of the barber chair but never again
could he use it.
What a great character actor...where are the great
Was watching the old Western Escape from Fort Bravo this AM and the
storekeeper was Howard McNear. And he wasn't wearing glasses, so wonder if he
started wearing them between this movie, 1953, and seven years later in
Mayberry, or if they were fakes.like someone else who portrays Floyd
Photos are NOT allowed in the museum any more. Seems someone took photos of
articles, printed them into larger photos and was selling them, so no more
photos! Only takes one to spoil the whole bunch!
I did have photos of the signs but in keeping with the wishes of the museum
I will not
Watched the episode with Jack Albertson as Aunt Bea's ...cousin? who was
really a con artist. Strange thing is, I just saw him on Gunsmoke a couple
days before playing the part of.a con artist!
When you got it, you got it!!
CameraNuttt.
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Someone once posted a site where you could go to and they would send the
tone to your phone for free, but after they did it, I didn't recognize the
phone number and deleted it!! On top of that, I deleted the web site as
well!! Now, I have been knowed to be not quite the sharpest knife in
Well, the Mayberry phone system may have been a little later than some
others in converting to dial, just like my hometown up in central Virginia.
When I
came to NC in 1963 I made a collect call to let my parents know I had made it
all right, so I picked up the phone and told the operator I
Don't know how many saw the bit on Fox news last night...the segment called
Hate Hannity where people can make video clips to send in. One was dressed
like and sounded like Barney Fife in civilian clothes!
I don't know if the guy was serious or not, but it was hilarious!
How much longer is it
Ain't no such thing as versitis, as far as I can tell. Maybe you refer to
bursitis. 'Ats when a little sac of fluid called a bursa gives problemsit
lubricates your joints, depending on which joints you go in...and makes you
hurt! I bet if you used Otis' remedywell, it wouldn't cure
Although he never appeared on the Andy Griffith Show, I am sure Andy and the
rest of us have listened to his songs for over fifty years. I got my first
album as a gift 51 years ago and still have it and it is still played. Whose is
it? George Beverly Shea turns 100 today and still sings!
As long as the main stars of the show are still alive, no stamp can be
issued. Andy would have to be gone for 10 years before that happens, so lets
hope
it will be a long time before a stamp comes along!
If it was a fictional show with fictional characters, it could be different,
but since
I found a good use for Miracle Salve.
if your car door squeaks, put on a little Miracle Salve and the squeak is
gone!
It is also good for waterproofing your hunting boots.
Apply to your windshield and wipe off real good and it works like the higher
priced rain repellent.
I use it to coat
At the next Mayberry Days, weather permitting, we should all gather and have
the CEO of the digest give us a pep talk! Then we could present him with
the keys to a brand new Cadillac! Then it would be up to him to find the one
the keys fit!!
I did that to a preacher we had one time when he
Trains run over pennies every day, I am sure. I even tried it in my Mayberry
once. Not only a penny but a nickel as well. Never found either one! That
train must have knocked them a country mile when it hit them. I checked around
for about 50 feet in every direction and they were nowhere to
Her car was a Stoobedakerer Studebaker
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James Best was miming? NO WAY!! If Brisco could get all those sounds from a
jug, I know Jim Lindsey could get sounds from his guitar others found
impossible to get! Even at Mayberry Days he has come on stage with his guitar
but
for some reason he always gets interrupted before he can play
Jeff, you have outdone yourself!! Fantastic photos!
I wish there was one of Mr. Schwamp's face when Miss Magruder was flirting
with him during the beauty contest!! That was one of the most hilarious
skits I have seen in a long time!
But, when all is said and done, there is more said than
Many thanks for putting my '08 Mayberry Days photos on line, but I have a
problem. When I try to view them, everything freezes. I have to use
ctrl-alt-del and start over. I have tried with both the first group and
second group
with the same results. Anyone else have that problem?
And a
How many saw the Mayberry Moment on TV news when the woman ran up to Karl
Rove and yelled.
CITIZEN'S ARREST!! CITIZEN'S ARREST!
Now, who could watch that and not think of Gomer and Barney!!
Personally, I think Mayor Pike will get my vote. Stoner has been in office
long enough!
And I
Floyd, Howard McNear, after the stroke never had a part where he used his
left arm again. You can watch those parts and see his had is either propped on
the arm of the chair where he is sitting, or on the back of the barber's
chair if standing. I think a time or two he was holding a
Wow!! Looked like a TAGS reunion last night in the 1967 movie Bonnie and
Clyde!
Cousin Virgil still messing up.
Dub Taylor as is pa.
Briscoe Darlin' as the law.
If I am not mistaken, the Darlin' boys did the music for the mvie.
Now if they could'a had Ernest T and Charlene as Bonnie and
One big I forgot to add in my report about the days.the National Guard
vehicle was the last one in the line of march. As it approached us, I noticed
silence, so my wife and I started applause for these American Heroes. As the
vehicle slowly made its way down Main street, we followed
9-25..Arrived in Mayberry (Mt. Airy) about 11AM and headed to Snappy Lunch
for our pork chop sandwich. Sorry for all those who couldn't have one!! Greeted
Emmett Forrest and Jim Clark while there, as well as Charles Dowell who owns
Snappy Lunch. After eating we went across the street to
I am late with my report and will be later!! We took a few extra days and
went up on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Bluffs Lodge, for a few days. Yesterday we
took a ride down to Grandfather Mountain for the first time in 15 years and
they have done some magnificent changes! Even ran into Amy from
There were no inconsistencies on the show. This is a situation comedy, in
which the players can play different parts under different names if the show is
writ that way. Like, Howard was not always Howard. Ernest T was not always
Ernest T. Mrs. Mendlebright was also Big Maude, as those
The old movie 3:10 to Yuma was on the other day. Can't remember who was
trying to get Glen Ford to Yuma, but one of the guests in the hotel lobby
waiting
for them to come down when the train got there was the man who was not in a
hurry! He sat patiently in the hotel lobby reading his
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