RIP Andy Griffith. I swear, half of what I know in my heart I learned 'in Mayberry.'

[Gidney N Cloyd]

[DrDan]

1. oh no . . . RIP Andy . . . . <sniff>

[LiberalLoner]

2. I really thought the deep south was just like Mayberry because of that show.

I learned different when I lived in Northern Florida and Georgia.

Andy Griffith was a real gentleman and he will be greatly missed.

Many don't know he did a lot of work for the Guillain-Barre Syndrome groups, trying to raise awareness (he had that disease but recovered very well from it)

[snooper2]

5. Well, the set and all taping was done in California

[antigone382]

7. Mayberry was located in the mountainous south...

Which is much more like what you saw on the show (or at least parts of it are).

[patrice]

3. I used to live in "Mayberry". It's gone too.

Replaced by a plastic simulacrum purchased from WalMart.

[think]

4. You said it well. TY

[2pooped2pop]

6. like "don't go picking your peaches before

they's fuzzed up good" or something like that. It was in one of the earliest shows when he was more hicklike. I remember cracking up hearing this on a more recent rerun.

[eShirl]

9. lol

[pamela]

8. I gasped when I saw this thread.

I'm a huge Andy Griffith fan. I've even made the "pilgrimage" to Mount Airy twice. This is so sad.

RIP Andy.