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2 unusual facts about Mayberry


Home, Pennsylvania

In the episode, Home is depicted as an idyllic "Mayberry" like town clouded by a reclusive local family with a dark secret.

Oakley, Idaho

Today, many people remark that Oakley is the very last "Mayberry" left in America, and frequently visited for its Victorian homes.


Aunt Bee

In spite of Aunt Bee's propensity for affairs of the heart and her active pursuit of elderly bachelors, she was only engaged once—to a cruise-ship captain (played by Will Geer for two episodes) during season one of Mayberry RFD.

Barney Fife

Lydia Crosswaithe was one of the young ladies whom he and Thelma Lou tried to match with Mayberry's sheriff.

Betty Lynn

In 2006, Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the hometown of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based despite Griffith's repeated denials.

Claire L. Ramsey

And the last article she contributed work to was "Language acquisition by eye" written by Charlene Chamberlain, Jill Patterson Morford, Rachel I. Mayberry.

Howard Sprague

Howard soon did a backspin and became an unabashed New Yorker, replete with a loud, paisley Nehru suit and hair bangs (Mayberry RFD, "The Panel", episode 6).

John Mayberry

In the 1971 offseason, the Astros traded Mayberry, along with Dave Graangard, to the Kansas City Royals for Lance Clemons and Jim York.

KTIP

The station is currently owned by Mayberry Broadcasting Co, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Communications.

Opie Taylor

Opie is a 6-year-old when the series opens, who lives in the fictional and idealized small, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina with his widowed father, Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), the sheriff of Mayberry County, and his father's spinster aunt, Beatrice "Aunt Bee" Taylor (Frances Bavier).

Rhodes Reason

Notable starring roles were King Kong Escapes and the television series White Hunter (1958), and as Sheriff Will Mayberry in the ABC drama series Bus Stop with Marilyn Maxwell and Richard Anderson.

Sherrick

Sherrick was given his professional break by producer Raynoma Gordy Singleton (née Mayberry), former wife of Motown founder Berry Gordy.

Siler City, North Carolina

The town was the retirement home and burial location of Frances Bavier (1902–1989) an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, a television sitcom in the 1960s set in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.


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