The Andy Griffith Show Filming Locations - Finding Town of Mayberry / Former Studio Backlot Tour
A visit to the filming locations of the Andy Griffith Show.
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here have
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my clipboard
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full of itemized screen captures
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today's adventure i will be roaming
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around to three different locations the
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first
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starting here on kohanga
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you see the street sign located right up
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there and there is a studio
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just across the way here on this cross
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street
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that used to house the interior sets of
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the andy griffith show i will show
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this and then i will make my way to all
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the exterior spots or at least
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as many as i can procure and
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figure out based on watching from the
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first episode all the way through
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season five which is when don knotts
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left the show he came back as a couple
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guest appearances but season one through
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five
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are arguably the best of the entire
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series i have put i put a lot of time
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into watching
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researching and we'll see if it we'll
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see if it helps
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with the production of this episode i'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you what is now red studios used
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to be owned by desi lou
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productions all the interiors
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were inside this property as well as
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some a few exteriors walking through
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there
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in the later years there was a hollywood
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episode
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that took place them walking through
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these gates but also gomer pyle before
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the spin-off
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and there is that iconic sign up there
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on top of the mountain
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gotta love that hollywood trickery it
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was not in
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north carolina nope it was all
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filmed in los angeles
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they pulled a wool over our eyes now i'm
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not gonna be able to get on site
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but i'm walking around the back here to
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lillian
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way you can see it there
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kind of protruding out of the shade into
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the sun there is the
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sign the 800 north block and if you
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follow
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around this corner some other television
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history i don't want to
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i don't want to dive into any other
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any other shows but it should be noted
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these were some of the audience doors
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right down there
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where i love lucy where guests would
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would kind of line up to go in and watch
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the show take place a little side note
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in fact i do believe that this bracket
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right up here is where
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the signage from way back then used to
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kind of
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kind of dangle
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another speaker up there but i digress
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across
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the way there is where the exteriors
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of thelma lew's house would have sat
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it's been they've been torn down they
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were not sets they were real homes that
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they would use they would utilize they
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would rent
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there were two or three and a couple
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different episodes of sat right there
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in fact i think there might even be some
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telephone poles in the background we
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could match up
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for a brief moment you see the address
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830
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830 here on lillian way
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let me just if i flip this around you
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can see a
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wider angle now the house is gone
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however you'll see up here there is
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a pole there and a pole there
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this one looks the same this has been
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the bottom portion
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has been removed but both of those poles
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are still
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up there in the distance meaning
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that 830 was right about there
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and there was another home that they
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utilized here
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and another one off to its other side
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but thelma loose her driveway would have
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been right around here
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a little bit of a closer angle there on
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the one pole
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that is prominent and the other pole
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just past the newer one that has been
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created
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typed in the address to maps and it
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shows
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right there that little blue dot is
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where i'm standing
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the home would have been here
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driveway there and barney came to visit
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and those poles
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right there
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same angle if you recall one punch opie
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where they break the light that
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that pole was right here and of course
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andy pulls up and then later later on
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opie has to confront
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his bully right there now over here what
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is now
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stage three right inside this very
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structure
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is where all uh every single episode of
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the interiors took place
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for a while this place kind of set
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desolate and
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and empty it's gone through a different
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couple different incarnations different
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studios have taken place
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but there are interviews with andy
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saying how it was in such bad shape that
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between scenes the rain would when rainy
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days
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would pour down through the roof line
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here it's now been converted into a
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couple different sound stages but they
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would just walk right
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out of this south gate and then turn
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to these homes here not a long commute
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at all to thelma loose it's kind of
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tough to wrap your head around just
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think of any moments
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from the show that are your favorites
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you know some most of them were right
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inside of that
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that domed building that sound stage
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just think of any of those
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from one of you know one of the most
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popular television shows of all time
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right inside there i was approached by a
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gentleman at the end of the block who's
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he was watching over
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the area kind of shared some of the info
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with him as well he didn't even realize
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you know the houses that had been taken
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down on the other side so that pretty
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much
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that's pretty much the end of showing
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the interior areas now it's time to
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really
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get into the exteriors got a little
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traveling so not too far
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but a little traveling even though it's
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only about eight miles gonna take about
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a half hour
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give or take let's get moving i totally
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agree big the foot it is very scenic
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through here
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these windy roads
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we're almost there in some ways it
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doesn't even feel like we're in the
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greater los angeles area anymore
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upper franklin canyon reservoir
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listen closely you can hear some water
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something very notable the intro to
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every single show right around this
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corner
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straight ahead this very pathway
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headed in this direction is where opie
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and andy
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director would have said action
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walked along this path
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just about where that picnic table is
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over there
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that's where opie threw the rock into
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the water
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pretty dang cool huh quite
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a bit of foliage growth over the years
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and decades can't really see down
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into the waterway like you could back
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then
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a couple of different occasions they
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utilize this in the early years
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and then the last couple of seasons as
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well
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short sweet to the point nice theme song
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whistled out everyone knows the tune
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in your head right now you're hearing it
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there's a pretty famous photograph of
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behind the scenes
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angle where they have the the camera
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camera crew right here
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and there was a big stump right about
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right there and it's not just that this
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area was used
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pretty much for any sort of fishing
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scene
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or if any of the escapees
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were kind of on the run the sheriff and
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deputy would
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always come out here to look for them
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i'm gonna try to match up some of those
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those spots now if you take this incline
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path up these stairs
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fairly certain something took place
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right up here next to these poles as a
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good frame of reference here's these
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wood pieces that make up the railing
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here are kind of panned back
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you can see they're looking over towards
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the lake for the guy in the boat
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that's paddling across now this railing
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seems to be pretty dated i don't think
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that is the one in frame
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i think it's more around this angle
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and the railing on the other side
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appears to be a little newer
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so you can see really you can see the
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age
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and the wear on these pieces in fact
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there's even some cobwebs
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and some newer bolts but right
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right about there there's don knotts
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looking for their man from here you
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wouldn't even realize there's a lake
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down there
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they eventually caught him in the end
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and standing right here
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looking back the other direction they
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were at the base of a hill
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and that hill is
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that slight descent which means their
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cruiser was there the three of them
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standing right there next to it
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i kind of backtracked just a bit around
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this item
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the rock skipping section is right over
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and look at the formation of the
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hillside of the mountains
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now obviously grown up quite a bit
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but there it is the same type of angle
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downward and there he is going across
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doing some paddling i'll get a little
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closer i'm going to walk i'll walk
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through the shrubs
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to get to the what is now the shoreline
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this would have all been submerged
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i can hear some some ripples right
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right over there that's as far as i can
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go however now if i could go back in
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time
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i would be pegged in the noggin
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by opie's pebble she would have been
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punk you hear the water
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the water's right there under those
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weeds
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very very grown over around the
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shoreline just a bit
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was over there but now get a better
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perspective here
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of the main reservoir well the upper
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reservoir
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the smaller of the two here in franklin
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canyon
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discovering that it is really difficult
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to line up
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trees and
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where the water level was 50 over 50
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plus years
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after production but it was along
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this edge where andy needed to get away
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for a while had a little camping spot
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also where the boys were re-enacting
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robin hood and met the
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met the gentleman who was staying away
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from town
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right over in there also the picnic
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took place right on the corner down
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gosh it is really tough though because
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you can't even really
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can't even go rooting around down in
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there too much
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a lot of those episodes you can see over
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here in the background
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you can kind of see the little
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formations and the dirt paths
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because the camera was usually set up
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that way looking across the water
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with these hills in the distance
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in the hills behind me during the meal
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when she decided to run for public
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office
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and andy disagreed she got up from the
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little picnic area
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and walked that direction
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wouldn't be able to do that now lots of
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lots of
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thorns and prickly items down there
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but off over there
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is that opposite opposite shore
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kind of scene there
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where time changes a lot of things i had
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been hoping to find these particular
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trees
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this was used on more than one occasion
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a number of episodes
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where they walked up they walked up a
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hill
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and you can kind of look over there the
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way that formation is
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is more or less that now
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trees could have been you know in a
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storm blown down a fire
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this seems to be the spot the only other
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option would be
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right over here there are a few but it
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seems to be a
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larger cluster i was also thinking
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that maybe they were up there on the
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side of that looking downward
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but there is nowhere to really get
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camera gear up there
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and if they were using that in a number
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of different
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different episodes in the series would
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be
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very difficult which means the road i am
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on
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here would have to be below where his
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campfire was
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looking looking that way that's a toughy
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here's another angle just a few feet
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away this is also a possibility
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look at the very hazy mountain lion
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up at the top and that would be
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basically the same kind of angle
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but a lot of growth and
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a lot have fallen this is proving the
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point that
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things don't always stand the test of
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when barney doesn't realize that andy
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isn't the criminal he jumps
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jumps on top of him and he can't once
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again using the
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the background there of the hillside
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and you can see some of the rocks down
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there as well
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but gosh could those be those rocks
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it's a good possibility but
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no real way of knowing this is the best
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possible
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guess right there such a funny scene
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and barney finally realizes he had
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caught andy and not the crook
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even though not everything can be
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pinpointed in this day and age
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it is nice to know that the same types
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of look at the branches there
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which also leads me to wonder
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maybe maybe that's the tree maybe the
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angle was
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a little more like that running along
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that
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section
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there's even more of those even that
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might even be it after
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five plus decades of growth this
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concrete embankment was placed here in
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1940 i was reading the placard back
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and i have a nice little feeling
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that a spot up here still exists there
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was a worker
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doing some maintenance on the electrical
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poles and just so happened
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to also be climbing around in the trees
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and opie ended up befriending him
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went home and told his dad who did not
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understand he thought opie was not
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telling the truth was telling
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telling a little bit of a lie
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and then later in the episode he met the
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guy and everything worked out fine
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no longer a wooden pole that he was
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climbing up and down
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but it was in this very spot
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here replaced by a much more
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structural stability i will stand a
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little a little more of the test of time
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but here's where he was right up there
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the clear giveaway is the concrete on
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the
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right and the the wooden fence line
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over on the left hand side right there
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and even more of a definitive
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proof is the concrete here on this
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end you can see the height of it there
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and then
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the wooden fence down at the other end
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truck would have been parked in between
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the two
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with the former wooden pole which has
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been replaced
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right there so angle just about
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like that
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television history here
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even without all the tv nostalgia this
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is a very
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beautiful place to take a hike
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enjoy the day
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it's nice out here i have to admit i
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thought i was gonna have a little better
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luck with
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matching everything up it was a tough
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one but this we haven't reached the
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crescendo yet there's still one more
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location where
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most of the angles will be
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will be found it's a few well more than
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a few miles from here
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heading back to the car and going over
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there now yeah i know big the foot it's
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like you were saying earlier there's not
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a lot left and
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a big part of the challenge is finding
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something that is a remnant
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of sorts even though it's only 10 miles
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and take about 30
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31 minutes pretty wild to thank you
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gotta cruise through beverly hills
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in reality to get to the mayberry spots
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arrived in culver city near the site in
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1927 cecil b mills king of kings was
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built
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also used for the gates of king kong
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1932
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and the burning city of atlanta for gone
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with the wind
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and a number of other television
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commercials movies a variety of
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subject matters that i am not discussing
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but i am going to talk about what used
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to sit right there
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not only on that very corner but also
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through this entire area which are now
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all buildings used for other productions
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oh things have changed you might find it
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tough to
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believe but i am standing more or less
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give or take a few feet where the
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drugstore was the church building
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would have been right over there and the
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courthouse
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and floyd's barber shop right there
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even these papers are excited they're
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clapping they cannot believe
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their ears i have all the documentation
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here
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i have with the fine-tooth comb gone
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through the
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series tried to find any kind of hints
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to to show
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andy's house front porch prominently
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used
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and a number of other of residential
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homes would have been right over there
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it's on the corner of hayden place and
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high guerra street
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that this was the main area it's almost
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set up the same way this parking lot
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if you're looking at it from an aerial
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view is more or less in the same pattern
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if we follow this along and kind of
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kind of get a good example of what
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mayberry
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where mayberry would have been
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on so many occasions they would be
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standing out
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right there on that little area you know
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in front of the barber shop
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or walking across the street to get
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ourselves a soda pop
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the back lot was maybe about 10 or 15 20
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yards
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from where normal traffic was
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it's closed off to the general public
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there's that there's that hotel the
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four-story hotel
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which you rarely saw from the second
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level up
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that was used quite a bit to pay
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attention over here across the road
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are these angled buildings which are
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still here so if you follow that road
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next to those angled buildings
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it puts you right where i'm currently
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standing still here today
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which you can use as a good you know
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point of reference
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to figure out where we're at looking
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from this angle which would be
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behind where i'm standing facing the
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opposite direction take a peek up here
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you see
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the way this building is designed with
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the the corner structure
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that's right there which means if i
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circle back around this way
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you would be looking up over the back
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end
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of that iconic courthouse this was taken
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years later when the lot was starting to
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fall into disrepair
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not looking so good you can see not
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really a place for interiors in fact
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there was a
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a boat back there wedged behind where
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they would have walked in
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andy and barney would have just
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basically walked right in
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not to the cells but to that boat set
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and there's the church and right up here
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these lights well not these lights but
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these poles
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would have been there where hayden
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now is so the angle would be
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just about like that looking down
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that was then
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this is now most likely not intentional
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but i love the fact that there is
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a barber shop set up right over there
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just on the outskirts
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of where floyd's used to be right there
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through those hedges
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just a gosh just a few feet away nearly
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impossible to pinpoint it down
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to the precise inch but more or less
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the new building back there is the same
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angle
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this is just my assumption take a look
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at this and the reason i am saying
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that it would have been just about you
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know give or take a few feet
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is based on that manhole you see down
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now i am not an expert on you know when
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it comes to
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drainage of streets and construction
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however if we look from this based on
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where i was
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and the aerial views and the episode
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of the tnt goat
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what is seen down
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here you can faintly make out
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a manhole do are manholes
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easily moved like that even though
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pavement is repaved
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will a will an area like that leading
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down
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into the ground stay precise
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i'm thinking yes which by using that as
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coordinates follow this way would have
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gone towards the residential
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street if you looked over this way
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would have been the church building
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all very close just short walk from each
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other
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currently standing right there
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kind of panned back out
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get it from this perspective i'm gonna
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walk up there we're gonna we're gonna do
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the walk
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this is so dang cool rarely seen but i
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did
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catch one little short one or two second
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frame
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of this that shows the back alley now
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this door
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would hypothetically be the little back
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area to the courthouse
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you know where barney would sleep
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sometimes and they had their little
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office in the back of the regular office
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and that would be just a few feet up
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that way i had to go to the far end back
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here just to
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be able to show this building over here
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and what i mean by that is
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was not really supposed to be shown but
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if you look
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up here past the hedge line
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the angle of that building right there
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is the same building there now i'm going
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to zoom in a little closer it is
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obstructed a little bit by
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the leaves and limbs but that's the same
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one that's just
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noticeable for a brief moment so that
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door would have been where
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this new door now is and remember the
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gazebo they were trying to fix
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that would have been placed right around
26:47
in here gosh it was just so much
26:49
activity through the course of the
26:51
entire season that was just on the side
26:52
over here
26:54
and they also had a fake facade that
26:56
kind of went around like a
26:57
almost like a wooden partition and then
27:00
a few other buildings
27:02
that stretched along here that if you
27:05
turn
27:06
the corner and went off to the left
27:08
there you would go down the residential
27:10
another example are the items on the
27:13
outside of the back lot
27:15
behind that partition i was mentioning
27:18
now it has been repainted the
27:21
the building has been repainted back
27:22
there but as he approaches
27:25
this here which is the courthouse
27:29
which would have been in that spot
27:32
let's walk over there and see if any of
27:34
the design of that building in the
27:36
in the distance match up upon closer
27:38
inspection that's definitely it
27:40
how it goes forward towards the road
27:42
there and then
27:43
back just a little bit and then this is
27:45
kind of away
27:47
from the other it's almost like it
27:54
almost like that trying to describe it
27:54
you know it's better just to show it
27:56
makes more sense
28:07
brief moment the lights here on the
28:07
cross streets obviously have been
28:08
updated
28:10
since then but you see this corner quite
28:13
a few times
28:14
an example here looking from the
28:17
drugstore
28:18
up and over you'll see the
28:21
you see what was the old wooden style
28:24
there they tried to obscure them
28:26
with these facades you see these pop up
28:29
on more than one
28:30
occasion right here on hayden
28:34
you have to use some heavy imagination
28:40
i can picture it mostly because it's
28:40
still fresh in my mind
28:42
from years of watching it through my
28:44
youth to my adulthood and then
28:46
the last few months i went through all
28:48
five seasons in order
28:51
but yeah just right here you can just
28:54
picture the cast of characters standing
28:57
next to those pillars
28:59
gosh and then right here was where they
29:01
parked the cruiser
29:03
all the time in this very
29:06
very general vicinity right here
29:10
and then between the two was floyd's
29:12
barber shop which you know more or less
29:15
right about there he could say that that
29:17
was floyd's
29:18
very rarely did they use any interiors
29:21
looking outward onto the street
29:24
they would have on the sound stage they
29:26
would put up either paintings or
29:28
cloth behind it photos of
29:31
this area of what it looked like then
29:33
but there was a couple of occasions for
29:35
example this one right here
29:36
where andy is looking out at barney as
29:39
barney runs off with his arms extended
29:42
that was that was not a that was not a
29:45
painting behind there
29:46
he really was andy really was looking
29:49
out
29:50
from this section across and
29:54
those hills were obscured by some of the
29:56
sets but
29:57
we'll get to that a little bit later to
29:58
be able to see some of them but that is
30:01
that angle there so
30:05
andy was standing right where i am
30:07
looking across at the hotel there which
30:09
was used
30:15
on a few quite a few occasions it's so
30:15
wild
30:16
just waiting for barney to pull up in
30:19
the car
30:19
and park right here they were very they
30:22
were very strict on who could park here
30:24
yeah they were allowed to they gave many
30:27
a tickets
30:29
party gave plenty of tickets to people
30:31
right here
30:32
continuing on past the barber shop then
30:34
you get into the meat market
30:37
fruit stands there was like a
30:41
a small alley that was through here that
30:44
kind of went back
30:45
it was used for quite a few different
30:47
things and then that
30:48
big hotel which was
30:52
right there you could see them going in
30:53
and out of the hotel which would have
30:54
been
30:56
you know just past these these flowers
31:00
shrubs
31:05
wow it's like reliving it all over again
31:05
but seeing it
31:07
through a totally different perspective
31:09
secrets were not kept very well in town
31:12
kind of leaked out that all that money
31:14
was going to be rolling through
31:16
so everyone showed up
31:19
right in this very spot
31:26
this might be a little of a stretch
31:26
could or could not be
31:28
but this corner which is now currently
31:32
that corner pay attention to that
31:33
building past the cross streets
31:37
down there and you'll see
31:40
this little item protruding up over
31:43
the wooden fence line now keep in mind
31:46
this was decades ago
31:48
however that could possibly
31:51
just go in just a little closer it could
31:54
be one of those little pillars there
31:56
and they have just extended them or it
31:58
could just be an
32:00
awful coincidence
32:06
maybe had to do a lot of pausing
32:06
rewinding
32:08
back and forth in order you know to get
32:11
the clues
32:12
gotta get the clues in order they don't
32:15
they don't happen often they just pop up
32:16
when you're least expecting them you
32:18
know you could just be episode after
32:20
episode you're sitting there
32:21
snacking on some stuff having a beverage
32:26
eating some eating some food and it's
32:27
like whoa what's that in the background
32:29
rewind rewind nailed it
32:32
it's very interesting because it's
32:34
unintentional but if you follow the
32:36
the new path line of buildings along how
32:39
this etches out just a little
32:41
is similar to how the theater was next
32:44
to the hotel you can see how that kind
32:46
of
32:46
kind of angles in so you got theater
32:50
you got the hotel there you got floyds
32:53
and the rest of them over there and then
32:55
once you pass
32:56
by the hotel and the theater the road
32:59
continued going
33:00
on which is one of the episodes where
33:02
barney gets his man accidentally
33:04
you know trips up on the on the criminal
33:07
and became the town hero that was just
33:11
right over there they didn't use that
33:13
area a lot but you do see it
33:15
you know on occasion it was right in
33:19
right about to right about to that point
33:23
and then going back to the dumpster was
33:26
that secondary section
33:28
now this is just approximate but within
33:30
a few feet the back side of the hotel is
33:32
where the post office was
33:35
sometimes it was moved around but the
33:37
post office was shown on the
33:38
right over on the opposite side not
33:40
shown of this
33:41
on the hotel which was there and one of
33:45
my favorite moments i have a lot of
33:46
favorite moments
33:47
but barney escorts escorts the lady
33:51
across goes down does a u-turn
33:55
right here very dramatic like you turn
33:58
u-turn u-turn u-turn pulls up
34:02
to the post office right there
34:07
when the darlings were siphoning water
34:09
out of the fountain in front of the
34:10
church building
34:13
that's the section and there's the
34:17
there's the item there in the middle of
34:19
the road again
34:21
and it was getting the attention of some
34:24
of the young ladies
34:26
new to town look down there
34:39
just the little things i get excited
34:39
about
34:45
like a manhole cover that still exists
34:45
gosh i hope that is the same one
34:49
i mean unless they completely repaved
34:51
everything
34:52
shifted the manhole by just a foot or
34:56
two
34:56
either way there was there was a manhole
34:58
in this side i mean it's got to be the
34:59
same one
34:59
has to be to show how close proximity
35:02
everything was
35:03
back to the goat and then residential
35:07
this is just the next frame as they turn
35:09
towards the residential area
35:12
so right there leaving leaving the
35:16
and residential street is right here
35:19
they always said i'll give you a ride
35:21
home i'll pick you up just wait a few
35:22
minutes i'll come pick you up
35:25
you can just walk to work in like two
35:28
seconds
35:30
up on top of that hill are a couple of
35:32
towers
35:34
you can faintly see them there kind of
35:36
silhouetted
35:42
top of that roofline there's father and
35:42
son
35:49
gosh it is windy out here there's the
35:49
towers up there
35:51
going around the the large building that
35:54
was in the middle
35:55
pretty much every angle of it was used
35:57
the bus stop
35:59
would have been seen there
36:02
so if you did the 360 or i'm not gonna
36:04
do a 360 we'll do like a
36:06
almost a 360 around it you would have
36:08
followed it around
36:10
and then if you weren't around to this
36:12
side which was shown on occasion
36:18
at one point it was the franklin
36:18
pharmacy
36:20
and you would see that church right
36:25
as well you could just keep kind of
36:27
circling around if you went around that
36:30
then you would be looking back at the
36:34
and down the residential street
36:49
time to walk over to andy's
36:49
it's a short commute
36:56
a couple hundred yards maybe less
36:56
100 yards i'm not going to be able to
36:58
get in
36:59
to this section it's it's all locked up
37:08
however here's a good landmark up here
37:08
this makes it to be able to match up
37:22
offset from this road
37:22
a little short walk maybe to just about
37:25
there angling that way i can't go past
37:28
that fence
37:30
but looking back the other direction
37:32
from their porch
37:35
you could see this building in the
37:37
distance
37:38
with a very unique indentation
37:41
and some some pipes and whatnot on the
37:46
side
37:47
there a couple of times you were able to
37:49
see this and this is their backyard
37:50
fence now first indication would be
37:56
that the building is that one right
38:00
and it has been remodeled just a little
38:04
i'm not 100 sold on that first theory
38:07
though
38:08
now it very well could be could have
38:10
been repurposed extended just
38:13
a little and it looks to be a little
38:16
more lengthy
38:18
than the indentation shown there however
38:21
i was looking on
38:22
satellite view and there appeared back
38:25
in the day to be another one
38:28
of these types of buildings that was
38:30
connected and adjacent to it
38:33
that sat right here almost to where down
38:37
that little a little pull in where the
38:39
sidewalk
38:40
meets the driveway nonetheless
38:44
andy's house was right there not right
38:47
on the road
38:48
it was maybe 10 feet back set from the
38:51
road
38:53
here's another look at what is under
38:56
what is under appeal discretion
38:59
depending on what your thought process
39:02
is on that could be the one that's still
39:04
standing
39:05
but i'm thinking it was just over here
39:08
a bit
39:20
so if this if you could just go back
39:20
just a tiny bit would be where opie's
39:23
garden was
39:25
where up on the roof
39:28
and he had the handyman who could do not
39:31
right just making so many mistakes
39:33
up in the window always looking out the
39:35
window all that in here you know going
39:37
back
39:38
going back just a few feet and the
39:41
haunted house episode
39:48
would have been right there oh kind of
39:48
where kind of where this
39:50
little walkthrough is that's another
39:52
classic episode great one
39:55
seeing don knotts terrified well all of
39:58
them were
39:58
rather frightened
40:05
in fact you can see those hills behind
40:05
gomer
40:06
that might be a i might be able to line
40:07
that up too couldn't really make it
40:09
happen this big parking structure
40:11
was in the way but i did discover
40:13
another angle looking back
40:15
and you kind of see i'll just show you
40:18
totally different time frame but that is
40:22
that haunted house and that
40:25
is andy's garage and there they are
40:28
you know at a totally supposedly a
40:30
totally different spot
40:32
unbeknownst to his home or the haunted
40:36
house
40:36
but you'll notice the poles back there
40:39
that is
40:40
hayden street which are the poles off
40:44
in the distance there at those cross
40:46
streets
40:47
so if you continue down that way
40:51
take a left you're in mayberry there's
40:53
those poles
40:54
andy's house here haunted house here
40:58
and those hills i gotta line that that
41:00
that gomer shot up
41:01
yeah this is about as close as i can get
41:05
you see above his head there the
41:08
formation i should be
41:09
i should be back over that way
41:12
that this works too
41:19
he doesn't know what he's in for walking
41:19
in there running parallel to this street
41:21
was
41:21
a berm it was an elevated you know dirt
41:25
patch that went up and on the other side
41:28
you know running just right along this
41:31
was a dirt stretch which they use for
41:33
out of town
41:35
scenes for example you know so the
41:37
mayberry sets ended
41:39
right around there this street here
41:43
is that street so that's where i'm
41:46
standing at the moment and there
41:48
was that you know dirt pathway that they
41:52
actually use it a number of times more
41:53
than more than a dozen throughout the
41:55
series
41:57
right along there and it went all the
42:00
way up until the road kind of shifts
42:02
off that way now the wooden poles on
42:04
this side of the road
42:07
shown there have been removed but you
42:09
can see
42:10
on the other side of the berm there are
42:12
a couple of others
42:14
so none on this side but there are
42:17
the old-timey tele-wooden telephone
42:20
poles
42:20
still remaining that you can see
42:24
you have to look very closely but
42:26
they're over there
42:27
when barney stands up to the guy selling
42:29
the goods on the outskirts of towns he
42:31
was on that dirt road
42:32
and there's that berm and there's some
42:35
of those
42:36
some of those telephone poles right
42:38
there you know so you got the
42:40
the elevated area would have been here
42:43
and there are
42:44
some of those some of those poles right
42:47
there but
42:48
right there in the same frame as barney
42:50
if you're ever re-watching
42:51
and you see a dirt road on the outskirts
42:54
of town in the andy griffith you know in
43:00
it would have been right through here
43:10
all of them were right here up ahead
43:10
there the road veers off a little
43:12
as shown there so if we go
43:16
this way i have placed an x where
43:19
wally's was which can't get over there
43:22
either they're
43:23
they're doing something on that far in
43:25
there is a production
43:26
taking place on this end of the property
43:28
but all the way
43:34
over there was where wally's was i
43:34
really find this stuff very fascinating
43:38
maybe part of the appeal is trying to
43:41
discover
43:43
you know what what no longer exists
43:47
could be a big part of it
44:01
for those not not up to the info
44:01
it would be very easy to pass by this or
44:04
heck even show up to work here
44:08
not knowing that you've seen this you've
44:11
seen these on so many
44:12
other occasions a former
44:16
former television life the theater
44:22
the hotel
44:31
there's like a i think it was like a
44:31
vegetable stand a meat
44:33
market meat shop i think it might even
44:36
they may even sold suits
44:39
at one point and then up to floyd's
44:42
barber shop
44:44
right up here which you never see floyd
44:46
ever cut any hair
44:48
he just talks and then they would go to
44:51
another scene
44:52
never see him snip any hair through the
44:55
course of the series
44:57
and there was another floyd before the
45:00
one you might know
45:02
oh yeah i went down the rabbit hole
45:06
sat around and watched all the first
45:08
five seasons
45:09
floyd's i didn't make it through after
45:12
barney left
45:14
i need to continue on and watch the last
45:16
few
45:18
but i thought for the purpose of this
45:21
oh man this right here was the
45:24
think about that gosh
45:27
so dang cool
45:33
i love it in the grand scheme of things
45:35
i don't know
45:37
if if everyone will share my enthusiasm
45:41
when it comes to yeah how exciting this
45:44
this is pretty dang cool
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46:14
a sudden you're
46:15
you're also craving some of aunt b's
46:17
pickles
46:19
yeah i know at first they're not too
46:20
tasty but
46:22
yeah we'll get used to them