>>>there were 2 very large holes (one in each cell) open to the outside weather >>>without any barrier to keep the cold outside. I guess, for the prisoners >>>sake, it is a good thing it never got cold in Mayberry.
Orville Hendricks>>> That's a good observation, however there is glass in the window of cell number one at least part of the time. In Deputy Otis, Andy has forgotten his keys so he reaches through the cell bars and knocks on the window glass to wake Otis. Seems to me it would have been better for Andy to just walk back home and get his keys (it's just half a block, after all). It seems likely he would need them often during the course of a working day. In other episodes, though, there is evidently no glass in the cell windows. See The Christmas Story, The Barbershop Quartet, and Tape Recorder for example. How there can even be a place for Ben Weaver to stand and look through the cell window seems impossible on the face of it, since Floyd's Barber Shop is directly behind that cell wall – but that's another matter. Lastly, Andy says to Barney in Andy and the Gentleman Crook, "This place ain't been so clean since the boiler busted and flooded the place." This implies some sort of hot water or steam heating. Paul Mulik _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
