While traveling the past few weeks, I was sad to be away from my cable TV broadcasts of TAGS live, and my Tape/DVD collection as well, but I did enjoy a Mayberry type experience during our travels. While out in the wide open West we visited a place call "Rawhide" on the south side of Phoenix AZ.
This place set up like a Western Town made me feel like I would see Clarence Earp and his manager round the corner at just any time. The "town" itself had wide open streets like Mayberry, with businesses such as a General Store, a Candy store, and of course a Sheriff's Office and Jail...with the old Sheriff sitting out front. Now he was like a sheriff from the old west, but the one-cell Jail in his small building bore a strange resemblance to Mayberry. Oh and back to Clarence..they had a real for-sure Wild West Show with fancy gun-slingin', whip-cracking and other cowboys talents (don't know about the arm-wrestling though) . In one of the shows they even did some wrastling in a nice soft pile of sand or sawdust (just like Opie and his friends and Clarence Earp and Goober) . The town also prominently featured a nice Cannon. I'm glad they voted to keep it. The restaurant had those nice red and white checkered table cloths. Well I had never been to a Wild West Show, but I think this came pretty close to the legend that was Clarence Earp. I know a few of you live out there so you may have been there as well. I could have gotten my picture taken in jail, but I was too cheap to part with the $10 to get arrested and then get my picture took. ---------------------------------------- Its good to be back in the saddle at home, and seeing this Digest each day. I just watched with delight Barney's fit about Andy and the Apricot Queen. (this is during Andy and Opie's Pal--the episode about "Tre"). One thing I wondered about is this. Barney's tells the story as if he and Andy were young boys (maybe I just misunderstood that part) but he goes on with this list of where Andy took the Apricot Queen ...Furniture factory, Beaver Dam, and the Diner...and then he says something to that affect that Juanita verified that they went to the Diner. ...so did Juanita start working at the Diner as a teenager??? Or did I just misunderstand this story?? ...be interested in someone's thoughts on that..what age were Andy and Barney during the big Apricot Queen escorting mishap??? The Untrained Voice _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
