While going thru some pictures last night and came across these. I had almost forgotten this part of our "Man Trip" to play golf in North Carolina this past spring.As we did on our first trip there, we stopped on the way home to see Mayberry (Mt. Pilot, NC). It was another disappointment -- no Sheriff Taylor, no Barney, no Opie or Aunt Bea. We did, however, stop at the jail again and spent some time there...the tourist jail, not the real one. The old Sergeant Major (shown on the right) was the one in our
group who may have had more of a chance to be in here than any of us as we were growing up. Dave liked fast cars back then! Chuck (left) is pretty much at home behind these bars too, but that's because he knows every line, scene, character that ever appeared on Mayberry.Goober's gas station was closed. S'posed to open at 9:00 and it was 9:15. I guess that's how it was back then. Anyhow, it was raining and the gal who was to work that morning was just running late.
We hit the shops up town to find that perfect T-shirt to take home, and then went to the movie house (the old school house where Andy Griffith went to school when he was growing up there). There were some pretty cool statues out front, so we got our picture taken by some young couple who stopped by there, probably looking for the Sheriff or Opie too. From the way the young gal went on when she was taking our picture, she nay have thought maybe we were some of the characters from the original shows. I guess if you look closely, you can see some likenesses!
The "Good Old Days" aren't times marked precisely by a calendar, rather they are a state of mind fringed by the fog of passing time. Hooah
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