Well true Mount Airy is Mayberry. It's only the full identity of downtown.
Downtown keeping Mayberry alive has kept the town from dying with all the furniture factories and hosiery mills closing down that kept the town alive. Mount Airy is just Mount Airy with the theme of Mayberry as Pilot Mountain is Mount Pilot. Mount Airy High has always been that and the school on Mayberry was,
Mayberry Union High School – the high school attended by Andy and Barney (who graduated in 1945 "Class Reunion" or 1948 "The Return of Barney Fife").
Now something you did not know and I had forgotten about. Everyone knows the TV series The Andy Griffith Show and the town of Mayberry is a
fictional TV town based on many towns in and around Mount Airy. But what most don't know is it all started on the
Danny Thomas Show before Danny Thomas produced the
Andy Griffith Show because it went so well as one of his shows. There was a town of Mayberry and some of the characters like Otis and Aunt Bea I think and some others were the same names as on Mayberry but different actors on the
Danny Thomas Show that started the
Andy Griffith Show.
Real World Mayberry
Mayberry is a real community in Patrick County, Virginia, located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. The Mayberry Trading Post, is the home of what was the Mayberry, Virginia post office until it closed in 1922. Andy Griffith and his father made many trips to the Mayberry Trading Post. Andy Griffith incorporated several community places and names from his childhood home into The Andy Griffith Show.
The name "Mayberry" is mentioned many times on television series such as Cheers, House, M.D., Criminal Minds, Supernatural, How I Met Your Mother, and Scrubs.
According to the episode "The Battle of Mayberry", the town was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the town. There is a Taylortown bordering Pinehurst, North Carolina, but it has nothing to do with the fictional town of Mayberry.
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