@ALL IN - The hate comes from the racist right wing red states who don't know how to disagree without throwing some moralistic or biblical BS in your face. I loved AG, but he was purely a creation of the liberals in Hollywood. LOL BTW...so when did you start liking nice guys?
@ALL IN - F'g hater! "Lock him up, correct?" "knock the crap out of em" "I'll defend you in court" "I'd like to punch em in the face" All Trump rally quotes.
I've been watching The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix lately and i get lost in it. I was born in '93 and my dad tried so hard to instill those wholesome values but they were diluted by the more modern times i was being raised in. When i watch that show i see why he tried so hard. It makes me almost teary when i finally turn it off for the day because i get so fascinated and lost in the simplicity and kindness of that era. I wish people still thought like that and treated each other like they do on the show. I try to do that. I'm in customer service and i try to make everyone in my small town leave my store smiling. I guess I'm also making a longer story than needed to just say thanks for the upload. I appreciate seeing this.
I am only 14 and I love this show. it reminds me of simpler times when everything was more simple and people were more loving towards one another and the shows on TV were family friendly. Andy Griffith is truly a gift given to the world not only for his acting and entertainment but for the spark of love laughter and family he left with us today. Andy will always be remembered for that❤
Ronald: Actually, Andy had a few episodes which were inappropriate. One was when Andy was reading a letter to Gomer or Goober from Barney who was in the city. Barney had written about the see through blouses the women wear in the city. Not wholesome.
@@williamroberts1693 really, I didn't know that, what agenda did they have going? I do sometimes notice that they tended to stray away from controversial topics at the time.
Thanks for sharing, I love that show and have them all on dvd. But I've never been there and probably never would have gotten to see it if not for you.
Passed by on our way home from Disney in 2000, passed his house , which at the time was a bed and breakfast, also drove up Pilot Mountain and stayed at the motel there. I think it was called the Mayberry Motel, loved every minute of it . It's the closest thing to going back in time, and you don't have to give up all the great things you have now to do it.
Same here. I can list off some old shows that I watch and love. Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, The Twilight Zone, Bwitched, I Dream Of Jeanie, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Happy Days (Ron Howard was on that show), The Brady Bunch, The Carol Burnett Show, Fawlty Towers (A little harder to watch 'cause it's a British sit com, it's on Netflix), Family Ties, Full House, Family Matters, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Matlock. 90's isn't old so I won't mention the 90's shows. That was 50's to 80's.
Life may have never been like that then... BUT that is Romanticism in art, that is to say, it is life as it should and ought to be. This aesthetic is not modern let alone post-modern. The important thing to consider concerning the Romanticist aesthetic is that it actually could be. It could be realized, just as any nightmare situation of the post-modern era. You might have heard someone say before 'life is what you make it.' This essentially is the artistic aesthetic of enlightenment ideals... The ideals that modernism and post-modernism torn down to be more realistic? What good has it served? Are they in actuality, more realistic? Perhaps, it's a less optimistic, not realistic and that's really all there is to it.
I know every episode by heart but I still watch them and still laugh...when Andy died I cried my heart out ...still can't think on it over much I get all teary eyed
The wife and I took a weekend and visited Mount Airy . It is easy to see where Andy got his inspiration . Some folks that were renting out his childhood home (you can stay in it) were nice enough to let us go through the house . A really simple place .You would NOT believe how small Andy's room was . Pilot Mountain and the Derby Restaurant were cool and it has an easy going feel to the area . We'll go again because we hope to see Betty Lynn .
A simpler time, a sweeter place. Here is nowhere I would rather be. Lovely video thank you so much for sharing your experience. If you had told me that I would grow to be 58 years old and an enormous fan of The Andy Griffith Show and all it stands for I never would have imagined. I'm lucky enough to have two episodes air on TV every evening have probably seen the mall dozens of times but they relieve the stress of the day.
Thank you for posting this! I have an ophthalmologist I had to see for quite a while, until I had to move back into Memphis. I couldn't resist calling him Opie! We all loved him! He took it in strde with his red hair and freckles!! He loved to fish and was a country boy at heart anyway! An excellent doctor! They call him that too at times. hahaha. I hated moving back to Memphis, but, I see the main doctor at the satellite office. So, it's all good. He laughed when I said I couldn't help calling his assoc. Opie. Yea, yea, I have heard that, too, he said. LOL. Ron Howard is so talented.
Thanks for taking the time to make your video of the museum including the entrance! I know it’s hard to stop at every single item when you’re filming a documentary and amazing you were allowed to film inside. The pause button on my iPhone allowed me to stop and read the many emblems and signs you briefly stopped at so that was not a problem at all. It made your movie last a half hour longer as I paused to read and take it all in. When I want to lower my blood pressure and desperate for a good laugh I look at TAGS! I thought maybe I was getting Alzheimer’s because I would watch it over and over again but then I wouldn’t be able to give the punch lines. Then again, Barney had problems saying the Constitution (“We The People...”) or the “Officer’s Oath”. Anyway...”It’s gooood! I appreciate it, and goodnight!” William Payne
Being From North Carolina , THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Was REQUIRED TV!! I LOVE The Show & Have The DVD Box Set!! Andy Is Also A FELLOW ALUM of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL !! GO TAR HEELS!!
I live here in Mount Airy NC and it's unreal the number or tourist we get daily to this day over the show. I walk my 🐕 along main Street and every one is taking pictures and it's amazing to see. Cause to me it's normal town with not much going on. Lol but guess that's what's liked about it. I grew up watching this show with my dad and still to this day enjoy it with him.
Thank you for sharing this video of the Andy Griffith Museum . That old side car, that Barney rode in, the uniform , mayors suit, desk with phone and all of it was just wonderful , I enjoyed it so much. I dont see Andys show much anymore, will have to look here on YTube. Anyway thanks again !
I remember back in the mid seventies watching re - runs with my Dad and rolling on the floor laughing at all of Barney's antics, and his funny facial expressions he would make when he got busted by Andy. Those were the days. Life was good and wholesome when you were in Mayberry!
Rick thanks so much for posting this. My favorite show as a kid and until this day I’ve seen every episode 150-200 times and still watch everytime I have the chance. I did not know this museum existed and I live in East Tennessee so I will be going there. Seasons 1-5 with Barney made it. Can’t watch the seasons after he left, just wasn’t the same. Thank you again for this opportunity !!!
Wow!!!!!! Just saw this video!! The Andy Griffith Show is one of my ABSOLUTE faves. Lol, my friends harass me all the time about it. I'm 43 and of course all I've seen is the reruns. This is right up my alley. Thank uuuuuuu for this tour👍🏻
First time I saw this, but if you look close at Andy's high school photo, he bears a resemblance to Ron Howard during early Happy Days! Now that's kind of haunting!
Been to this little town couple of times on our way to Florida where we now live. Neat little town with very nice people. Took the tour in the squad car. You can actually stay in Andy's childhood home
It's a blessing to be loved and thought of and this is a show of love at its best, i didn't even know there was a Andy Griffith Museum until this very day, thank you for this post i enjoyed it very much.
We've been wanting to spend a weekend in Mount Aire. Drove through the town one time. Even up in the hills everyone is prospering. I love how this town has repurposed itself just like Helen Georgia. Thanks for sharing..
WOW!! GOOD STUFF!! With our country divided like nothing I ever seen before (im 54) along with great memories of days of staying home sick from school and getting excited to watch I Love Lucy at 8am (2 episodes) than Andy Griffith at 9am (2 episodes) and then i'd watch Bonanza for an hour. So now it's 11am i'm gonna have a bowl of soup/broth because i'm sick :) mind you, back to t.v, at 11am i would have to wait for the midday news to end. Than at 12 noon it was time for Twilight Zone (2 episodes) Yes at 54 I don't promote truancy, but hot damn; growing up in the 70s was still so different than today. And being that Andy was filmed in the 60s, I felt like I related to the same era of Andy and all of Mayberry RFD. Back to current time; Even though I don't watch much of anything on tv today, is because it has long lost that wholesome Golden Era because now it's no longer tv, it's called TEL/A/VISION...... I WISH ALL WELL, IF YOUR FAR RIGHT, IF YOUR FAR LEFT, IF YOUR LIBERTARIAN OR YOUR A CONSERVATIVE, GOD BLESS YOU ALL...
Cliff Arquette, ( if anyone remembers him) alias Charlie Weaver was also from Mt. Airy. He would refer to it as Mt. Ida in his routine i.e. his letters from his Mama. His children and grandchildren are the Arquettes that are popular Hollywood items now ( or were)!
Great video..thanks for sharing it. I'm a big, HUGE fan of Andy Griffith. Still watch reruns, never tire of them. Our 3 brothers were too, they're deceased now, one of them even had the recording on his answering machine to say : " I can't come to the phone now,I'm either out in the yard or I'm watching Andy Griffith" Which meant he wouldn't talk while the show was on...lol Another brother, I checked the clock before calling him, if Andy Griffith, Judge Judy or Archie Bunker was on, I waited..lol
I agree, some of the episodes in color were good, but most of it wasn't good at all. I'm on season 7 episode 13. The show definitely wasn't the same when Don Knotts left. Warren drove me up the wall.
I watch them every day, but not so much the color episodes. Especially with Warren, he wasn't a good fit at all. And it kills me to see Floyd go down hill with each passing episode. I truly would love to live in that simpler, honest, and pure time.
Im single too. Been there done that. Relatioships are good for some but real bad for most. Its just the way it really is. Be happy be single thats why most in Mayberry were just happy to mingle!
that would be a fun place to visit. always loved that show still watch it a lot. " learn to love em" thanks for sharing it. I know I will never get there with all the critters we have and no one to take care of them for a day or two.
Great vid. Thanks for sharing these great memories. Any sign of "the Fun Girls" from Mt Pilot? Lots and lots of great characters who were funny without being vulgar or implied sexual innuendo. I miss those classic TV shows. Thanks for reruns.
that suit of goobers was supposed to be the burial suit for Floyd the barber but his wife already had another suit picked out so goober kept the suit. a little trivia for u.
What in are heck are u driving 480 miles on 1 tank? A go cart with a Mac truck fuel tank? Thanks for the video. You can actually rent Andy’s child hood home from the hotel down the road. I stayed there years ago and toured the town. The museum was closed for some reason when I was there. Hope to go back soon.
great tv show lot of great memories watching it with my dad and saying i want to go to mayberry great times when a mans word is all u need and a hand shack wish it was that way today
Great video! I am one of the youngsters that likes and watches The Andy Griffith Show pretty often, it was such a funny show. One of my favorite episodes is "The Loaded Goat" and "The Bank Job" any of the episodes where Barney discharged his gun, I loved, "Citizens Arrest" is another really funny one. I also liked all the episodes with Otis in it, couldn't stand The Darlings though although Earnest T. Bass was crazy, I still laugh so hard when he was on the show. One of the lines that cracks me up from an episode where Earnest T.'s there and Barney a few times mentions he'd take him out back behind the court house and give him a beating and Andy all episode long says "He'd kill ya." and at the end Helen says with this real serious face "He'd kill you."
I loved how Earnest T would say that too. I forgot to add, how it's pretty cool that 2 actors from M*A*S*H were guest stars on The Andy Griffith Show. Jamie Farr and William Christopher, which is obviously before M*A*S*H so I'd imagine the people who watched both shows back then if they remembered probably thought, how cool was this.
Remember the show where Barney had to wear a different suit to a dance and he fumed and worried because the salt and pepper was the only one he could "dip" in when he danced.
I will add my repeat...one of my favorite shows. I still watch them. Great shows, good scripts, funny casting.... no worries if children may be in the house. ahhh.... nostalgia. thanks for taking us along.
I auditioned there for something; don't remember what. All the names on that show were taken from nearby areas. Mayberry was inspired by nearby Danbury. Floyd Lawson's name came from Lawsonville and Floyd. Howard Sprague from Sprague St. Nelson's Funeral Home, where Gomer learned the Marine Corps Hymn was real. I have a pen from their secondary location in Danbury. In fact, I bought a lot of the acreage from Jones Nelson's funeral home. Pilot Mountain spawned the name of Mt. Pilot, which was really Mt. Airy. There are a ton of names from the area that most people don't know about. The name of Mayberry itself, was a bastardization of Danbury and Mabry Mill. Myers Lake was supposed to be just over the county line in Stokes County, which is real. It's where Danbury , Lawsonville and the funeral home are/were located.
Awwwww, I loved Andy Griffith! You never heard any scandals about him or Don Knotts. They were both funny without being vulgar. I got teary when you read the plaque in front of the statue. He was a great man. Regarding Cheng and Eng, in Philadelphia, at the Mutter Museum, there is a post-mortem plaster body cast of the twins on display, along with their original, double-seat wicker chair on display. Now THAT is a museum you would live. It's all human oddities! My husband and I toured it a few years ago. Really interesting place. Thanks for sharing! Take care and God bless! Hugggggs!
Howard Morris directed many of the episodes... Howard also played Ernest T. Bass! Earl Hagan wrote the theme song and other music for the show, did the whistling on opening
Thanks for video taping & sharing. I love watching Andy Griffith Show during the late 70s shown in Malaysia. Missed the crew and congratulations to Ron Howard for his success.
@@RickMammana Thank you. I was watching Andy Griffith @Sundance 3 weeks ago and noted the scene of a grocery stores in Mayberry of the low pricing those days. Incidentally, l commented to my group members of MacEddy Film Club in US and many members mentioned to me of the good old carefree days & low pricing as compare 60 years later. Oh Wow!! A pound (Ib) of Potatoes @only 2cents, Coke@1 cents and many others of yesteryears pricing. Hey Rick, l thought l saw Barney Fife standing there with his cute bow tie! Shazam!!!
Mount Airy is Andy Griffith’s hometown. People say that TAGS was based on Mt. Airy, but Andy said in interviews that it wasn’t. He said Mayberry was a fictional town where all problems were solved in 30 minutes, but Mt. Airy is a real town with real problems that aren’t so easily solved. Eventually, though, Andy quit fighting it. He said that if people want to believe and say that Mayberry was based on Mt. Airy, then let them. The building that houses The Andy Griffith Playhouse and The Andy Griffith Museum used to be an elementary school. That’s where Andy went to school.
you are so right Rick, about TV LAND. they air trash at any time of night,while mutilating shows like this one and GUNSMOKE to make room for commercials. the episode where Barney is suspicious of a local farmer (played by the actor who was Patty Duke's dad)whose wife is expecting .Fife mentioned Marihuana in that episode, until they had to slash it out. also in the Christmas episode of GUNSMOKE ,they cut out the priceless ending which dares to have a verse of 'tidings of comfort and joy' to end the episode.they only care about their own trashy shows,and selling products at the expense of classic TV.
Hey Rick, this picture of Barnie's side car looks like this may be water retained in the bottom of it. If it is, It makes me wonder why they would display it like that, Wouldn't that Rust out the bottom. Cool Pictures. I love watching Andy Griffith.
Connie That is a replica. It used to sit inside. There was info near it that named the craftsman. They use to allow folks to climb inside to have your picture taken for a small fee. They may still allow that.
I'm heading to Mt.Airy July, 13 on my birthday and I can't wait to get there, I am a huge Andy Griffith show fan, Priceless and classic!! My all-time favorite episode is "The Clubmen" Great video!
Young Andy Griffith looked a great deal like Opie or Ron Howard. I learned about Chang and Eng when I was 10. You would think they could cut that strip between them where that was found at autopsy neither of them had enough of their own organs to survive on their own.
Thanks so much for posting this! One of my all time favorite shows!! I just got done doing a Netflix Binge watch of all 8 seasons. laugh and cry at almost every episode. Wonderful show....wonderful memories...thanks again for sharing this with us! God Bless! *also love the t shirt you were wearing!
Good video. I was just there a couple months back. Then I went down and to rode in one of the actual police cars used in the show and saw Andy's boyhood home. It was awesome! I recommend all Andy Fans to visit!
I watch Andy Griffith show every single night before I go to bed. It help me unwind from the day and takes me to a simpler time.
Thank you for posting this video. I've enjoyed this show for many, many years and still watch it in reruns. I'll never get tired of it.
+Ramona Hand You're welcome! I watch it often too. The good old days!
I've got the DVD collection, but still watch it on ME-TV every week night. Yes, those were the good old days!
The Andy Griffith show taught lifes best lessons. Now Hollywood is the gutter with filth and trash.
The gutter is your ignorant fake moral bullsh*t.
@ALL IN - The hate comes from the racist right wing red states who don't know how to disagree without throwing some moralistic or biblical BS in your face. I loved AG, but he was purely a creation of the liberals in Hollywood. LOL BTW...so when did you start liking nice guys?
ALL IN - i’m a college educated my 60s. FU. Try getting an education and read something once in a while. Shut off Fox fake news.
@ALL IN - You're the hater. You just called me a liar. NOT TRUE. I can back up every point I make on you tube with FACTS.
@ALL IN - F'g hater! "Lock him up, correct?" "knock the crap out of em" "I'll defend you in court" "I'd like to punch em in the face" All Trump rally quotes.
I’m 15 and I literally grew up with this show man it’s definitely my favorite
I've been watching The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix lately and i get lost in it. I was born in '93 and my dad tried so hard to instill those wholesome values but they were diluted by the more modern times i was being raised in. When i watch that show i see why he tried so hard. It makes me almost teary when i finally turn it off for the day because i get so fascinated and lost in the simplicity and kindness of that era. I wish people still thought like that and treated each other like they do on the show. I try to do that. I'm in customer service and i try to make everyone in my small town leave my store smiling.
I guess I'm also making a longer story than needed to just say thanks for the upload. I appreciate seeing this.
best show ever !!! good clean and funnier than ANYTHING raunchy Hollywood Has today!
+draintheswamp Yes! Too bad they don't make them like this anymore! The good old days!
I agree with both if you.
Trudygirl T you know it was placed in North Carolina I live there
Tell me about it!!! Very few times are you ever going to find something clean like TAGS on TV nowadays!
@Trudygirl T - AGREE 100%!!
I am only 14 and I love this show. it reminds me of simpler times when everything was more simple and people were more loving towards one another and the shows on TV were family friendly. Andy Griffith is truly a gift given to the world not only for his acting and entertainment but for the spark of love laughter and family he left with us today. Andy will always be remembered for that❤
What a good show. Depicting the old days, when a kid could come home and watch a really wholesome show on tv. Those were the good old days indeed...
Ronald: Actually, Andy had a few episodes which were inappropriate. One was when Andy was reading a letter to Gomer or Goober from Barney who was in the city. Barney had written about the see through blouses the women wear in the city. Not wholesome.
Ronald Bowman: They had a few bad episodes on the Andy Griffith show, they had their agenda going.
@@williamroberts1693 really, I didn't know that, what agenda did they have going? I do sometimes notice that they tended to stray away from controversial topics at the time.
@@DK0523 Then I can't help you. To help yourself, start with this: THE TRANNY AGENDA
@@williamroberts1693 yes I remember but it was G rated compared to the smut on TV these days.
Thanks for sharing, I love that show and have them all on dvd. But I've never been there and probably never would have gotten to see it if not for you.
Thankyou for taking the time to make this. I still enjoy The Andy Griffith Show and delighted in seeing what the museum looks like.
If the town of Mayberry was real just like the show with the same people I would move there tomorrow
+lucky43113 Me Too!
Me too, In a split second.
lucky43113 millions of people would move there. So we have to build a town like that and just let a certain number move in.
If only the whole world were like that, and stayed that way!!
Ive said the same thing many, many times.
Passed by on our way home from Disney in 2000, passed his house , which at the time was a bed and breakfast, also drove up Pilot Mountain and stayed at the motel there. I think it was called the Mayberry Motel, loved every minute of it . It's the closest thing to going back in time, and you don't have to give up all the great things you have now to do it.
Andy said once in an interview that the crew could hardly finish a scene when Floyd the Barber was a part of it they could not stop laughing
I am pretty young and do not recall any old shows but I love the classic tv shows like Andy and Donna Reed Show. I wish life was like that today.
I wish life was like that again too. :)
Same here. I can list off some old shows that I watch and love. Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, The Twilight Zone, Bwitched, I Dream Of Jeanie, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Happy Days (Ron Howard was on that show), The Brady Bunch, The Carol Burnett Show, Fawlty Towers (A little harder to watch 'cause it's a British sit com, it's on Netflix), Family Ties, Full House, Family Matters, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Matlock. 90's isn't old so I won't mention the 90's shows. That was 50's to 80's.
Life wasn't even like that then!
Life may have never been like that then... BUT that is Romanticism in art, that is to say, it is life as it should and ought to be. This aesthetic is not modern let alone post-modern. The important thing to consider concerning the Romanticist aesthetic is that it actually could be. It could be realized, just as any nightmare situation of the post-modern era. You might have heard someone say before 'life is what you make it.' This essentially is the artistic aesthetic of enlightenment ideals... The ideals that modernism and post-modernism torn down to be more realistic? What good has it served? Are they in actuality, more realistic? Perhaps, it's a less optimistic, not realistic and that's really all there is to it.
I agree that life was NOT like that then. Like June Cleaved doing house work in a dress and heels???
I know every episode by heart but I still watch them and still laugh...when Andy died I cried my heart out ...still can't think on it over much I get all teary eyed
I cried when I found out Andy died as well. Always have loved him. :-)
The wife and I took a weekend and visited Mount Airy . It is easy to see where Andy got his inspiration . Some folks that were renting out his childhood home (you can stay in it) were nice enough to let us go through the house . A really simple place .You would NOT believe how small Andy's room was . Pilot Mountain and the Derby Restaurant were cool and it has an easy going feel to the area . We'll go again because we hope to see Betty Lynn .
A simpler time, a sweeter place. Here is nowhere I would rather be. Lovely video thank you so much for sharing your experience. If you had told me that I would grow to be 58 years old and an enormous fan of The Andy Griffith Show and all it stands for I never would have imagined. I'm lucky enough to have two episodes air on TV every evening have probably seen the mall dozens of times but they relieve the stress of the day.
Aw I loved Andy ... we used to watch all their shows. How fun to stop there and get to see all the props. Thanks for bringing along.
+T G Yes this was a fun stop. I love Andy too, I try to watch at least once a day. :)
Thank you for posting this! I have an ophthalmologist I had to see for quite a while, until I had to move back into Memphis. I couldn't resist calling him Opie! We all loved him! He took it in strde with his red hair and freckles!! He loved to fish and was a country boy at heart anyway! An excellent doctor! They call him that too at times. hahaha. I hated moving back to Memphis, but, I see the main doctor at the satellite office. So, it's all good. He laughed when I said I couldn't help calling his assoc. Opie. Yea, yea, I have heard that, too, he said. LOL. Ron Howard is so talented.
I love "Angel in my pocket" a favorite movie of my childhood. Andy was really a natural at acting.
Hi Rick! Thank you for posting this video. I love Andy. I am still watch it now.😃
+neal loving I love watching Andy too. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for taking the time to make your video of the museum including the entrance! I know it’s hard to stop at every single item when you’re filming a documentary and amazing you were allowed to film inside. The pause button on my iPhone allowed me to stop and read the many emblems and signs you briefly stopped at so that was not a problem at all. It made your movie last a half hour longer as I paused to read and take it all in. When I want to lower my blood pressure and desperate for a good laugh I look at TAGS! I thought maybe I was getting Alzheimer’s because I would watch it over and over again but then I wouldn’t be able to give the punch lines. Then again, Barney had problems saying the Constitution (“We The People...”) or the “Officer’s Oath”.
Anyway...”It’s gooood! I appreciate it, and goodnight!”
William Payne
Being From North Carolina , THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Was REQUIRED TV!! I LOVE The Show & Have The DVD Box Set!! Andy Is Also A FELLOW ALUM of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL !! GO TAR HEELS!!
Go Heels!!!! From Indy 👍👍☝️
My favorites were with Ernest t. Bass and the Darlins . I still watch the Andy Griffith show and Gomer Pyle USMC.
+Stacy Hightower I love them all and watch all the time. 😁
I live here in Mount Airy NC and it's unreal the number or tourist we get daily to this day over the show. I walk my 🐕 along main Street and every one is taking pictures and it's amazing to see. Cause to me it's normal town with not much going on. Lol but guess that's what's liked about it. I grew up watching this show with my dad and still to this day enjoy it with him.
Thank you for sharing this video of the Andy Griffith Museum . That old side car, that Barney rode in, the uniform , mayors suit, desk with phone and all of it was just wonderful , I enjoyed it so much. I dont see Andys show much anymore, will have to look here on YTube. Anyway thanks again !
I remember back in the mid seventies watching re - runs with my Dad and rolling on the floor laughing at all of Barney's antics, and his funny facial expressions he would make when he got busted by Andy. Those were the days. Life was good and wholesome when you were in Mayberry!
I need to see this museum, I'm missing out. Even though I was born in 1967 I love seeing this show in reruns, great series.
Rick thanks so much for posting this. My favorite show as a kid and until this day I’ve seen every episode 150-200 times and still watch everytime I have the chance. I did not know this museum existed and I live in East Tennessee so I will be going there. Seasons 1-5 with Barney made it. Can’t watch the seasons after he left, just wasn’t the same. Thank you again for this opportunity !!!
Wow!!!!!! Just saw this video!! The Andy Griffith Show is one of my ABSOLUTE faves. Lol, my friends harass me all the time about it. I'm 43 and of course all I've seen is the reruns. This is right up my alley. Thank uuuuuuu for this tour👍🏻
Thanks for the walk down memory lane 🤗
First time I saw this, but if you look close at Andy's high school photo, he bears a resemblance to Ron Howard during early Happy Days! Now that's kind of haunting!
Been to this little town couple of times on our way to Florida where we now live. Neat little town with very nice people. Took the tour in the squad car. You can actually stay in Andy's childhood home
It's a blessing to be loved and thought of and this is a show of love at its best, i didn't even know there was a Andy Griffith Museum until this very day, thank you for this post i enjoyed it very much.
I love this show...I still watch it right before I leave to work! It's funny clean 😊👏❤
Thanks so much for posting this!! I grew up on the Andy Griffith Show - what a great video!
We've been wanting to spend a weekend in Mount Aire. Drove through the town one time. Even up in the hills everyone is prospering. I love how this town has repurposed itself just like Helen Georgia. Thanks for sharing..
I would love to go and Visit the Museum. I have loved that Show ever since I was little and still watch it to this day.
WOW!! GOOD STUFF!! With our country divided like nothing I ever seen before (im 54) along with great memories of days of staying home sick from school and getting excited to watch I Love Lucy at 8am (2 episodes) than Andy Griffith at 9am (2 episodes) and then i'd watch Bonanza for an hour. So now it's 11am i'm gonna have a bowl of soup/broth because i'm sick :) mind you, back to t.v, at 11am i would have to wait for the midday news to end. Than at 12 noon it was time for Twilight Zone (2 episodes) Yes at 54 I don't promote truancy, but hot damn; growing up in the 70s was still so different than today. And being that Andy was filmed in the 60s, I felt like I related to the same era of Andy and all of Mayberry RFD. Back to current time; Even though I don't watch much of anything on tv today, is because it has long lost that wholesome Golden Era because now it's no longer tv, it's called TEL/A/VISION......
I WISH ALL WELL, IF YOUR FAR RIGHT, IF YOUR FAR LEFT, IF YOUR LIBERTARIAN OR YOUR A CONSERVATIVE, GOD BLESS YOU ALL...
Cliff Arquette, ( if anyone remembers him) alias Charlie Weaver was also from Mt. Airy. He would refer to it as Mt. Ida in his routine i.e. his letters from his Mama. His children and grandchildren are the Arquettes that are popular Hollywood items now ( or were)!
Nice work! Thanks for sharing this video with us!
Great video..thanks for sharing it.
I'm a big, HUGE fan of Andy Griffith. Still watch reruns, never tire of them.
Our 3 brothers were too, they're deceased now, one of them even had the recording on his answering machine to say : " I can't come to the phone now,I'm either out in the yard or I'm watching Andy Griffith"
Which meant he wouldn't talk while the show was on...lol
Another brother, I checked the clock before calling him, if Andy Griffith, Judge Judy or Archie Bunker was on, I waited..lol
TFS, Rick I loved Andy Griffith Show and I still watch it today. I don't care to much for the episodes in color.
I watch everyday too. :)
I agree, some of the episodes in color were good, but most of it wasn't good at all. I'm on season 7 episode 13. The show definitely wasn't the same when Don Knotts left. Warren drove me up the wall.
I watch them every day, but not so much the color episodes. Especially with Warren, he wasn't a good fit at all. And it kills me to see Floyd go down hill with each passing episode.
I truly would love to live in that simpler, honest, and pure time.
@@redneckbarbie That time never existed.
I agree.The old black and white episodes were better/funnier. Just my opinion.
In a 1993 reunion show Andy said the town of Mayberry was not based on his home town.
I love watching the reruns of the Andy Griffith show was five years before I was born love the statue
Thankyou so so much.
Do you know why everyone in Mayberry in Andy's world was always so happy? They were all single. The only person married was Otis. LOL
Im single too. Been there done that. Relatioships are good for some but real bad for most. Its just the way it really is. Be happy be single thats why most in Mayberry were just happy to mingle!
I wish I could go here. My fav show of all time!!
+TheDavePhan I love it too!
that would be a fun place to visit. always loved that show still watch it a lot. " learn to love em"
thanks for sharing it. I know I will never get there with all the critters we have and no one to take care of them for a day or two.
That was awesome thanks for the tour hope to make it there real soon
I watched , and loved, every episode during my childhood
Me too! Still do! :)
I watch my Andy Griffith Show dvds almost every day! Love Andy and the bunch!
Great vid. Thanks for sharing these great memories. Any sign of "the Fun Girls" from Mt Pilot? Lots and lots of great characters who were funny without being vulgar or implied sexual innuendo. I miss those classic TV shows. Thanks for reruns.
+Larry Geary I remember the fun girls! :) No sign of them there. I miss those shows too. Thanks for watching!
Place has grown just tad. Last time there August, 1963. Lived in Union Mills, Rutherford County, right down the road.
Nice video made me miss North Carolina even more never been to that museum but travel through Mount Airy all the time thanks much
Fun vacation. Thanks for taking us along. Loved the museum!
+Jilly InCali Thanks for joining us. It was fun.
that suit of goobers was supposed to be the burial suit for Floyd the barber but his wife already had another suit picked out so goober kept the suit. a little trivia for u.
Thanks man! Wish the camera wasn't so fast
We're going camping there in a few weeks at Mayberry Campground. We dont live far from there. Glad you visited ol NC ❤️😁
+Carolyn LaFevers Great! I'm glad we were there too.
Thanks for the video 👍🏻 I love watching The Andy Griffin Show. It brings me back to a simpler time.
Glad you enjoyed it
What in are heck are u driving 480 miles on 1 tank? A go cart with a Mac truck fuel tank?
Thanks for the video. You can actually rent Andy’s child hood home from the hotel down the road.
I stayed there years ago and toured the town. The museum was closed for some reason when I was there. Hope to go back soon.
Great Job!!! Love this.... Visited there years ago but they have really upgraded since then.
I'm glad you were allowed to use your camera. They had a very strict no photo or video policy when I visited in February 2013.
Great memories! Thanks for sharing.
+Debbie Ashton Thanks for watching! ☺
great tv show lot of great memories watching it with my dad and saying i want to go to mayberry great times when a mans word is all u need and a hand shack wish it was that way today
How can people give a thumbs down to probably the best program ever on TV.
More than likely a thumbs down to this video quality.
Great video! I am one of the youngsters that likes and watches The Andy Griffith Show pretty often, it was such a funny show. One of my favorite episodes is "The Loaded Goat" and "The Bank Job" any of the episodes where Barney discharged his gun, I loved, "Citizens Arrest" is another really funny one. I also liked all the episodes with Otis in it, couldn't stand The Darlings though although Earnest T. Bass was crazy, I still laugh so hard when he was on the show. One of the lines that cracks me up from an episode where Earnest T.'s there and Barney a few times mentions he'd take him out back behind the court house and give him a beating and Andy all episode long says "He'd kill ya." and at the end Helen says with this real serious face "He'd kill you."
+sportsygirl8 Yeah cool! It's me It's me It's Earnest T! I love them all too. :)
I loved how Earnest T would say that too. I forgot to add, how it's pretty cool that 2 actors from M*A*S*H were guest stars on The Andy Griffith Show. Jamie Farr and William Christopher, which is obviously before M*A*S*H so I'd imagine the people who watched both shows back then if they remembered probably thought, how cool was this.
@@sportsygirl8 When was Jamie Farr on The Andy Gtiffith show? What episodes?
@@magikexpert Jamie Farr was only in 1 episode of The Andy Griffith Show and that was "The Gypsies" Season 6 episode 23
@@sportsygirl8 Thank You. You're right. I forgot all about that episode.
Nice tour, thank you!
Remember the show where Barney had to wear a different suit to a dance and he fumed and worried because the salt and pepper was the only one he could "dip" in when he danced.
My all time favorite episode was Aunt Bee's Pickles . If you ever get a chance to go there GO ! I'm from Cincinnati Ohio and I go once a year...
I loved this!!! Thank you so much for posting it.
That was so cool, Rick! Luckily they let you film in there! Thanks for sharing!
+bebina Thank You Very Much for watching!
Just the best thing to see this monumental scenes again
Thank you for the tour. Great job!
Loved Andy Griffith. Thanks for the visit to the museum.
+Kathy O'Gorman Me Too! Thanks for watching!
I will add my repeat...one of my favorite shows. I still watch them. Great shows, good scripts, funny casting.... no worries if children may be in the house. ahhh.... nostalgia. thanks for taking us along.
+trvlbuggy Perfect, Excellent and Classic memories. I watch most every day too.
I auditioned there for something; don't remember what. All the names on that show were taken from nearby areas. Mayberry was inspired by nearby Danbury. Floyd Lawson's name came from Lawsonville and Floyd. Howard Sprague from Sprague St. Nelson's Funeral Home, where Gomer learned the Marine Corps Hymn was real. I have a pen from their secondary location in Danbury. In fact, I bought a lot of the acreage from Jones Nelson's funeral home. Pilot Mountain spawned the name of Mt. Pilot, which was really Mt. Airy. There are a ton of names from the area that most people don't know about. The name of Mayberry itself, was a bastardization of Danbury and Mabry Mill. Myers Lake was supposed to be just over the county line in Stokes County, which is real. It's where Danbury , Lawsonville and the funeral home are/were located.
Thanks for sharing this. We've been wanting to go there for quite some time now. You have a nice channel! We subscribed. :)
Awwwww, I loved Andy Griffith! You never heard any scandals about him or Don Knotts. They were both funny without being vulgar. I got teary when you read the plaque in front of the statue. He was a great man.
Regarding Cheng and Eng, in Philadelphia, at the Mutter Museum, there is a post-mortem plaster body cast of the twins on display, along with their original, double-seat wicker chair on display. Now THAT is a museum you would live. It's all human oddities! My husband and I toured it a few years ago. Really interesting place.
Thanks for sharing! Take care and God bless! Hugggggs!
+Lisa Strahan Ooooooooo! Very interesting. Thank you!
Rick Mammana You can find them online at Muttermuseum.org.
2:36 The reason it's June 1st, that is his birthday. :-) I share the same date.
Howard Morris directed many of the episodes... Howard also played Ernest T. Bass! Earl Hagan wrote the theme song and other music for the show, did the whistling on opening
Thanks for video taping & sharing. I love watching Andy Griffith Show during the late 70s shown in Malaysia. Missed the crew and congratulations to Ron Howard for his success.
Thank you for watching!
@@RickMammana Thank you.
I was watching Andy Griffith @Sundance 3 weeks ago and noted the scene of a grocery stores in Mayberry of the low pricing those days. Incidentally, l commented to my group members of MacEddy Film Club in US and many members mentioned to me of the good old carefree days & low pricing as compare 60 years later.
Oh Wow!! A pound (Ib) of Potatoes @only 2cents, Coke@1 cents and many others of yesteryears pricing.
Hey Rick, l thought l saw Barney Fife standing there with his cute bow tie! Shazam!!!
@@EdChoongTF Oh they were sure the good old days.
wow theyre forever immortalised...what an honour
+jessie james 👍👍
LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE BACK THEN
+Jamie McVay It sure was!
I love Andy Griffith, but life was not simple in the 1960s. Assassinations, war, segregation - the Simple life was only ever on TV.
Not if you were Black, or gay or different
It wasn't like the show EVER!!
Did you go to the Snappy Lunch diner and have a Pork chop sandwich ? It's a real place , and it was mentioned several times over in Mt Pilot .
+Tracy Stubblèfield No but I would have liked that!
its on main street in mt.airy
I ate there...they put coleslaw on the pork sandwich....crazy....I've never seen that here in Texas.
Mount Airy is Andy Griffith’s hometown. People say that TAGS was based on Mt. Airy, but Andy said in interviews that it wasn’t. He said Mayberry was a fictional town where all problems were solved in 30 minutes, but Mt. Airy is a real town with real problems that aren’t so easily solved. Eventually, though, Andy quit fighting it. He said that if people want to believe and say that Mayberry was based on Mt. Airy, then let them.
The building that houses The Andy Griffith Playhouse and The Andy Griffith Museum used to be an elementary school. That’s where Andy went to school.
I love the Andy Griffith show
you are so right Rick, about TV LAND. they air trash at any time of night,while mutilating shows like this one and GUNSMOKE to make room for commercials. the episode where Barney is suspicious of a local farmer (played by the actor who was Patty Duke's dad)whose wife is expecting .Fife mentioned Marihuana in that episode, until they had to slash it out. also in the Christmas episode of GUNSMOKE ,they cut out the priceless ending which dares to have a verse of 'tidings of comfort and joy' to end the episode.they only care about their own trashy shows,and selling products at the expense of classic TV.
Hey Rick, this picture of Barnie's side car looks like this may be water retained in the bottom of it. If it is, It makes me wonder why they would display it like that, Wouldn't that Rust out the bottom. Cool Pictures. I love watching Andy Griffith.
Connie
That is a replica. It used to sit inside. There was info near it that named the craftsman. They use to allow folks to climb inside to have your picture taken for a small fee. They may still allow that.
I'm heading to Mt.Airy July, 13 on my birthday and I can't wait to get there, I am a huge Andy Griffith show fan, Priceless and classic!! My all-time favorite episode is "The Clubmen" Great video!
spent a nice saturday checking everything out. would definitely recommend the tour in the squad
cars. nice people in the shops too
Young Andy Griffith looked a great deal like Opie or Ron Howard. I learned about Chang and Eng when I was 10. You would think they could cut that strip between them where that was found at autopsy neither of them had enough of their own organs to survive on their own.
You just passed through Mt Airy NC- My home town dude! You were right on the other side of where the Library is! In my neck of the woods!
I'm so glad to see that my Uncle Ben has a museum dedicated to him lol!!
Thanks so much for posting this! One of my all time favorite shows!! I just got done doing a Netflix Binge watch of all 8 seasons. laugh and cry at almost every episode. Wonderful show....wonderful memories...thanks again for sharing this with us!
God Bless!
*also love the t shirt you were wearing!
I love these shows too. I'm glad you liked this video. Thank you very much!
Good video. I was just there a couple months back. Then I went down and to rode in one of the actual police cars used in the show and saw Andy's boyhood home. It was awesome! I recommend all Andy Fans to visit!
That was awesome Rick.... thank you so much for this. Happy New Year !!!
+Johnnyboy792 Thank You! I loved it there. Happy New Year to you too!
Very Cool !! The good ole days😉
+Mark Caldwelk Yes! The good old days. :)
Thanks for this. I've considered driving there for Mayberry Days.
That was cool thank you!
Love this show, found it on TV Land and ME TV.. watch it daily..
Thanks for that great tour. I love the show .
I'm glad you liked it! :)