The 40 Acres back lot, where the exteriors of TAGS were filmed, was bulldozed in 1976. The area is now an industrial park; I believe there is a security building on the site where the courthouse stood.
Two of the last films shot there were Switchblade Sisters and Vigilante Force. By the mid-1970s, the sets were in a terrible state of disrepair (some, like the train station, had succumbed to fire, and others were deliberately destroyed during filming). You can probably find those two movies on DVD if you want to see what "Mayberry" looked like in its final days. If you watch Vigilante Force, "Mayberry" appears only in the last few minutes of the film (as "the old ghost town"). Paul Mulik Sent from my U.S. Cellular BlackBerry® smartphone _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
