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Mayberry, North Carolina is a fictitious community that was the setting for two popular American television sitcoms, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. Mayberry was also the setting for a 1986 reunion television movie titled Return to Mayberry. Mayberry is said to be based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Mount Airy is also known as Mayberry and this town is known by both names to the people who reside there.
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1 The name "Mayberry"
2 Specific features
3 Mayberrians
4 Archetypal small town
4.1 Real-life models
4.1.1 Origins and expansion
4.2 Eponymous real life community
5 Town landmarks
5.1 Public buildings
5.1.1 Houses
5.2 Entertainment venues
5.3 Commercial buildings
5.3.1 Places to eat
5.3.1.1 Lodging
5.4 Physical landmarks
6 In popular culture
7 References
8 External links
The name "Mayberry"[edit]
According to show episodes, the community of Mayberry was named for fictional founder Lord Mayberry. Historically, the word Mayberry is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is a locational name, a dialectical variant of the placename Maesbury in Shropshire.[1] Purportedly, Andy Griffith himself chose the name of the fictional community. Griffith, however, told Larry King in 2003 that Artie Stander is the person who thought of the name Mayberry; Stander was one of the show's creators and writers.[2]
Mayberry is a real community in Patrick County, Virginia, located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. The Mayberry Trading Post, home of the Mayberry, Virginia, post office until it closed in 1922, told local TV station WGHP-TV[3] that Griffith and his father made many trips to the Mayberry Trading Post. Griffith incorporated several community places and names from his childhood home into the show. The term "Mayberry" is mentioned many times in television shows such as Cheers, House, M.D., Criminal Minds, Supernatural, How I Met Your Mother, and Scrubs.[citation needed] According to the episode "The Battle of Mayberry", the town was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the town. There actually is a Taylortown in North Carolina, but it has nothing to do with the fictional town of Mayberry or the show.
Specific features[edit]
Mayberry had one traffic light and little in the way of indigenous crime with the exception perhaps of moonshining and bootlegging. Out-of-town bank robbers, scam artists, escaped convicts, and vagrants occasionally found their way to Mayberry. The county and the town share the same name and jurisdiction. In episode 44 "Sheriff Barney", the mayor of nearby Greendale relates that Mayberry County has had the lowest crime rate in the state for two years in a row under Sheriff Taylor. The town only had one long-distance telephone line, as referenced in the episode "Man in a Hurry", that two old ladies shared each Sunday preventing others from using the telephone.
In the opening scene of season 8, episode 30 (the last episode), a sign at the railroad station lists the population and elevation of Mayberry:
Population: 5,360
Elevation: 671
However, this conflicts with the comment made by choir director John Masters to Andy Taylor, that "there's got to be a decent tenor in a town of two-thousand people" in the episode The Song Festers - season 4, episode 20. And, in season 7, episode 23 ("The Statue"), Howard Sprague refers to a population of 1,800.
Mayberrians[edit]
Andy does his part for the Mayberry town band. Barney and Gomer are not sure he's helping the cause.
Ralph Barton (Charles Lampkin), a friend of Sam Jones (RFD)
Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris), a bothersome troublemaker fond of throwing rocks through windows
Emma Brand (Cheerio Meredith[4]), serial jaywalker and hypochondriac
Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman), fix-it shop owner
Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), town drunk and a descendant of a Revolutionary War hero
Rita Campbell (Dorothy Neumann), Otis Campbell's wife
Old Man Crowley (Burt Mustin)
Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut), a Kansas transplant, Opie's teacher and Andy's girlfriend (later appearing as his wife in Mayberry R.F.D. spinoff series)
The Darlings (Denver Pyle as Briscoe Darling Jr., Maggie Peterson as Charlene Darling and The Dillards as the Darling Boys), a hillbilly family who play bluegrass music with Andy in several episodes
Clara Edwards (Hope Summers), Aunt Bee's best friend (also called Clara Johnson or Bertha Edwards in early episodes)
Warren Ferguson (Jack Burns), a Boston transplant, replacement deputy (even more inept than Fife)
Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Andy's lifelong friend (originally portrayed as his cousin in the pilot episode and through the first season) deputy sheriff, later a detective with the Raleigh, North Carolina Police Department
Charlie Foley (Frank Ferguson), grocer
Harold Grigsby (Kelly Thordsen), owns the saw mill
Orville Hendricks (Woodrow Chambliss), butter and egg man from Mount Pilot
Evan Hendricks (Bobby Diamond), wild-driving son of Orville, known to break an egg or two
Cy Hudgins (Forrest Lewis), Local farmer, owns a goat named Jimmy that eats almost anything
Mike Jones (Buddy Foster), son of Sam Jones (RFD)
Sam Jones (Ken Berry), farmer (RFD) and single parent and widower like Andy, head of the town council of Mayberry in Mayberry R.F.D. spin-off series
Juanita Beasley, a waitress at the Bluebird Diner, who is never seen (flirts with Barney over the phone), though originally the character named Juanita was portrayed as the Mayor's daughter in season one.
Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), barber at Floyd's Barber Shop
Jim Lindsey (James Best), a talented guitarist who joins Bobby Fleet and His Band with a Beat
Leon (Clint Howard), a toddler in a cowboy outfit who wanders the streets of Mayberry
John Masters (Olan Soule), hotel clerk and director of the town's singing choir.
Bert Miller (Sterling Holloway), peddler
Orville Monroe (Jonathan Hole[5]), undertaker
Mayor Pike (Dick Elliott) mayor in first two seasons of show (1960–61)
Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), auto mechanic at Wally's Garage and Gas Station (later service station owner)
Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), service station attendant at Wally's Garage for three seasons (1962–64) (left Mayberry to join the Marine Corps in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. spin-off series)
Sarah, the often spoken to, but never seen, telephone operator
Skippy (Joyce Jameson) and Daphne (Jean Carson), the Fun Girls
Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), county clerk
Roy Stoner (Parley Baer),[6] mayor of Mayberry for three seasons (1962–64), replacing Mayor Pike
Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka), bakery clerk (RFD)
Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), sheriff and widowed father
Beatrice Taylor (Frances Bavier), Andy's aunt, known as Aunt Bee
Opie Taylor (Ronny Howard), Andy's son
Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn), Barney's sweetheart, occupation unknown
Ellie Walker (Elinor Donahue), pharmacist and one-time love interest of Andy
Ben Weaver (Will Wright), the flint-hearted store owner and landlord
Mrs. Wiley (Doris Packer), genealogy researcher, called Ernest T. Bass "a creature"
Wally (Norman Leavitt, Trevor Bardette, Cliff Norton, and Blackie Hunt), owner and principal mechanic of Wally's Filling Station. No last name is ever given for Wally.
Lydia Crosswaith (Josie Lloyd), an attempted arranged date with Andy and a romantic interest of Goober Pyle
Henry Bennett (John Qualen), accused of being a jinx
Sandy (Sherman Sanders), a square dance caller
Sam (Sherwood Keith), appeared in three 1962 episodes
Merle (Sherwood Keith), town councilman in one 1962 episode
Art Crowley (Frank Warren), the grocer
Flip Conroy (Rockne Tarkington), the school African-American football coach in one 1967 episode
Asa Breeney (Charles P. Thompson), security guard
Archetypal small town[edit]
Real-life models[edit]
Many assume Mayberry was loosely based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina, but actually, Griffith has indicated that nearby Pilot Mountain, also in Surry County, North Carolina, inspired him in creating the town. Pilot Mountain likely was the inspiration for the fictional town of "Mount Pilot", a nearby larger town in relation to Mayberry, often referred to and occasionally visited by the characters in The Andy Griffith Show. The county seat of Surry County is in Dobson; thus, this is the location of the nearest courthouse to Mount Airy. One episode has a fictional nearby location - "Pierce County". Another episode has Barney Fife referring to Sheriff Taylor and himself as "the law west of Mount Pilot".
Other place names used in the show refer to actual places in North Carolina, such as Raleigh—which was also often called "Capital City" – Siler City, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Chapel Hill, Stokes County, Elm City and Charlotte. One of the stars of the show, Frances Bavier (who played Aunt Bee) retired to Siler City in real life. In episode 249 "A Girl For Goober", the towns of Manteo and Toast are mentioned. Andy Griffith owned a home in Manteo (on North Carolina's Atlantic coast), and Toast is about two miles outside of Mt. Airy in Surry County. Stokes County, which borders Surry County to the east, is mentioned as the location of Myers Lake in episode 140 "Andy And Helen Have Their Day". In episode 62 "Cousin Virgil", the bus picks up Barney's cousin in Currituck. A Currituck County is located in eastern North Carolina. In episode 17 "Alcohol And Old Lace" while looking for moonshine stills, Barney suggests looking into Fancy Gap, Virginia, a town just across the state line from Mt. Airy. In episode 60 "Bookie Barber", Aunt Bee states that Floyd's Barber Shop has received phone calls from as far away as Morehead City. In episode 136 "Opie's Fortune", a man from Bannertown lost $50. Bannertown is a few miles from Mt. Airy in Surry County. In episode 68 "Barney Mends a Broken Heart", the towns of Harnett and Yancey are mentioned. Both a Harnett County and a Yancey County are in North Carolina. In episode 3 "The Guitar Player" played by James Best, who later played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, Best's character Jim Lindsey buys his guitar picks in Winston-Salem, which is actually the nearest big city to Mount Airy (37 miles).
Origins and expansion[edit]
Mayberry originated in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show and was the setting for The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry RFD, and the 1986 reunion movie Return to Mayberry. Although the county seat of an agricultural county, black people were sometimes seen in the original series, but more often seen on RFD.
Eponymous real life community[edit]
Mayberry is the name of a real community in Patrick County, Virginia; located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. The Mayberry Trading Post, home of the Mayberry, Virginia post office until it closed in 1922, told local TV station WGHP-TV[3] that Griffith and his father made many trips to the Mayberry Trading Post.
Town landmarks[edit]
Public buildings[edit]
The Mayberry Courthouse was where Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife maintained law and order. It also contained the county jail—two cells, a back room, and the mayor's office upstairs. No inside stairs are seen, although there is an outside fire escape. Aside from Andy Taylor's home, this was the main setting for The Andy Griffith Show.
Mayberry Savings Bank, the town's only bank, was often subject to robberies. It contains a large vault, and its only security guard is a senile man named Asa, who is constantly sleeping and whose fall-apart dilapidated gun is filled with moldy bullets. An interesting plot hole about the vault: in one episode, the vault combination was lost so an extra door was put in the vault. But in another episode, Barney Fife gets himself locked in the safe and only escapes by breaking the wall between the vault and the next-door beauty parlor.
U.S. Post Office – the town's only post office
Mayberry Union High School – the high school from which Andy and Barney graduated in 1948. In the episode "The Return of Barney Fife", which originally aired 01/10/1966, Barney and Andy attend their high school reunion. Behind the small orchestra playing during the dance hangs a banner that reads "Welcome Class of '48". However, in the episode "Class Reunion", which originally aired 02/04/1963 Andy and Barney organize a class reunion in which the banner reads "Class of '45".
Houses[edit]
Taylor House is a humble, yet handsome, two-story frame house at 332 Maple Road (though once noted by Barney to be on Elm St.), a short walk from the courthouse. Notable features include a front porch perfect for conversation and guitar playing, a back porch with an extra refrigerator, and a living room with a high ceiling and rough-hewn (rusticated ashlar) stone fireplace.
Mrs. Mendalbright's Rooming House – Barney Fife boards upstairs and his landlady is Mrs. Mendalbright.
Thelma Lou's House – the home of Thelma Lou, Barney's girlfriend
Helen Crump's House – the home of Helen Crump, Andy's girlfriend and Opie's teacher
Mrs. Wiley's House – the home of Mrs. Wiley, which is frequently subject to parties, two of which were crashed by Ernest T. Bass
The Rimshaw House – the "haunted" house of the deceased Old Man Rimshaw where Otis Campbell and Big Jack Anderson were running a still
Entertainment venues[edit]
The Grand Theatre – The movie theater where Andy and Barney often took their girlfriends (Helen Crump and Thelma Lou, respectively) on dates
Commercial buildings[edit]
Walker's Drug Store – This was the town drug store and soda shop owned by Fred Walker. His niece Ellie (Elinor Donahue), also a pharmacist, worked there for a while and was Andy's first girlfriend on the show. In the early episodes, characters often talked about "going to Walker's for an ice cream soda."
Floyd's Barber Shop – Run by the scatterbrained Floyd Lawson, it was the main center of action in Mayberry. On any given day, it was not unusual to see many of the town's important figures, including the mayor and the sheriff, gathered here.
Foley's Grocery – Run by Mr. Foley, it was where Aunt Bee and her friends shopped.
Emmett's Fix-it Shop – handyman Emmett Clark's business replaced Floyd's when Howard McNear left the show.
Weaver's Department Store – run by the miserly Ben Weaver
Wally's Filling Station – The town's only known gas station, it employed cousins Gomer and Goober Pyle. It also served as the town's auto repair garage.
Places to eat[edit]
Bluebird Diner – This was the restaurant where Barney was often seen calling to talk to his secret love, the enigmatic waitress "Juanita". A man named Frank owns the diner. It is located on the outskirts of Mayberry, near Myer's Lake. Mount Airy has a family-owned restaurant called the Bluebird Diner.
Snappy Lunch – a Mayberry diner named after a real eatery that still serves lunch in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Morelli's - a more upscale restaurant outside of town. Known for it's special dinner, the pounded steak supper, "pounded on the premises."
Lodging[edit]
Mayberry Hotel – Where out-of-towners often stayed, the Mayberry Hotel was also where choir director John Masters was employed.
Physical landmarks[edit]
Myer's Lake – As seen in the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show, it was the place Andy and Opie Taylor went fishing, and where Barney often drove with Thelma Lou for their "romantic getaways". The fictional lake was mentioned on the show as being located in Stokes County, North Carolina. Stokes County is a real county next to Surry County where Andy Griffith was born and raised. Franklin Canyon Park was used for filming.
In popular culture[edit]
Due to the success and fame of the television show, "Mayberry" has been used as a term for both idyllic small-town life and for rural simplicity (for both good and ill).
In a song by Rascal Flatts titled "Mayberry", the town is mentioned: "Well I miss Mayberry sitting on the porch drinking ice cold Cherry Coke where everything is black and white."
In the song called "Grandpa's Interview" on the Neil Young album Greendale: "Shows with love and affection, Like mama used to say, A little Mayberry livin', Can go a long way."
References[edit]
Jump up ^ SurnameDB: Mayberry surname meaning
Jump up ^ CNN.com - Transcripts - CNN LARRY KING LIVE - A Mayberry Reunion With Andy Griffith and Don Knotts - Aired November 27, 2003 - 21:00 ET
^ Jump up to: a b WGHP-TV: Mayberry, Virginia Trading Post
Jump up ^ Cheerio Meredith on IMDb
Jump up ^ Jonathan Hole on IMDb
Jump up ^ "The Mayberry Band" on IMDb
External links[edit]
Behind the Scenes of the Real Mayberry A behind the scenes look at The Andy Griffith Show and the real Mayberry, includes filming locations, the stars made on the show, and Mayberry trivia.
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Elephant in the room
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The Elephant in the Room, Banksy exhibition, 2006 Barely Legal show, Los Angeles[1] (The elephant is Tai)
Elephant in the room is an English-language metaphorical idiom for an obvious problem or risk that no one wants to discuss,[2] or a condition of groupthink that no one wants to challenge.[citation needed]
It is based on the idea/thought that something as conspicuous as an elephant can appear to be overlooked in codified social interactions, and that the sociology/psychology of repression also operates on the macro scale.
Contents
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1 Origins
2 Usage
2.1 Similar
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
Origins[edit]
In 1814, Ivan Andreevich Krylov (1769–1844), poet and fabulist, wrote a fable entitled "The Inquisitive Man" which tells of a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny things, but fails to notice an elephant. The phrase became proverbial.[3] Fyodor Dostoevsky in his novel 'Demons' wrote, 'Belinsky was just like Krylov's Inquisitive Man, who didn't notice the elephant in the museum....'[4]
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first recorded use of the phrase, as a simile, in The New York Times on June 20, 1959: "Financing schools has become a problem about equal to having an elephant in the living room. It's so big you just can't ignore it."[5]
This idiomatic expression may have been in general use much earlier than 1959. For example, the phrase appears 44 years earlier in the pages of a British journal, Journal of Education, in 1915. The sentence was presented as a trivial illustration of a question British schoolboys would be able to answer, e.g., "Is there an elephant in the class-room?"[6]
The first widely disseminated conceptual reference was a story written by Mark Twain in 1882, "The Stolen White Elephant", which slyly dissects the inept, far-ranging activities of detectives trying to find an elephant that was right on the spot after all. This may have been the reference in the legal opinion of United States v. Leviton, 193 F. 2d 848 (2nd Circuit, 1951), makes reference in its opinion, "As I have elsewhere observed, it is like the Mark Twain story of the little boy who was told to stand in a corner and not to think of a white elephant."
A slightly different version of the phrase was used before this, with George Berkeley talking of whether or not there is "an invisible elephant in the room" in his debates with scientists.[7]
In 1935, comedian Jimmy Durante starred on Broadway in the Billy Rose Broadway musical Jumbo, in which a police officer stops him while leading a live elephant and asks, "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante's reply, "What elephant?" was a regular show-stopper. Durante reprises the piece in the 1962 film version of the play, Billy Rose's Jumbo.
Usage[edit]
The term refers to a question, problem, solution, or controversial issue which is obvious to everyone who knows about the situation, but which is deliberately ignored because to do otherwise would cause great embarrassment, sadness, or trigger arguments or is simply taboo. The idiom can imply a value judgment that the issue ought to be discussed openly, or it can simply be an acknowledgment that the issue is there and not going to go away by itself.
The term is often used to describe an issue that involves a social taboo, such as race, religion, homosexuality, mental illness, or even suicide. It is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged; and the people who might have spoken up decide that it is probably best avoided.[8]
The idiom is commonly used in addiction recovery terminology to describe the reluctance of friends and family of an addicted person to discuss the person's problem, thus aiding the person's denial. Especially in reference to alcohol abuse, the idiom is sometimes coupled with that of the pink elephant, q.v. "the pink elephant in the room."[citation needed]
The expression has also been used as a metaphorical idiom in Spanish. In 1994, the 8000 Process was a legal investigation of events surrounding accusations that the campaign of Colombian Liberal Party candidate Ernesto Samper for President of Colombia was partially funded with drug money from the Cali Cartel. Insisting on his innocence, Samper stated that if drug money had entered the presidential campaign, it had done so "behind his back". Cardinal Pedro Rubiano, a leader of Colombia's Catholic Church, stated in an interview that not knowing that drug money financed part of the presidential campaign was similar to not noticing "an elephant entering one's living room".[9][10] Since then, the events that led to drug money financing the "Samper for President" campaign have been referred to as "The Elephant".
For some, their first encounter with this phrase comes through the poem of the same name by Terry Kettering.[11] In one edition of Time magazine in 2013, Chris Christie was labeled as the "Elephant in the Room" on the cover page.
Similar[edit]
A variation is the phrase "elephant in the corner" which is infrequently used to the same effect.[12]
Logician and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein used an example of a rhinoceros in the room to show the impossibility of proving negative existential statements.[citation needed]
"Mokita" is a word in the Kilivila language,[13] which is spoken on Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands (near Papua New Guinea). It means "truth we all know but agree not to talk about."
See also[edit]
Quotations related to Elephant in the room at Wikiquote
Blind men and an elephant
Elephant joke
Elephant test
Nigger in the woodpile
Ostrich effect
Polite fiction
Skeleton in the closet (idiom)
Taboo
The Elephant in the Living Room, 2011 documentary
The Emperor's New Clothes
Third rail (metaphor)
Unsaid
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Wyatt, Edward. A Splashy Los Angeles Debut by Banksy - Design - New York Times, Published: September 16, 2006, retrieved December 2012
Jump up ^ Cambridge University Press. (2009). Cambridge academic content dictionary, p. 298.
Jump up ^ Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Vintage 2006, p. 718
Jump up ^ Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Vintage 2006, p. 38
Jump up ^ "OED, Draft Additions June 2006: elephant, n". OUP. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
Jump up ^ Journal of education, Vol. 37 (1915), p. 288.
Jump up ^ On the nature and elements of the external world: or Universal immaterialism fully explained and newly demonstrated by Thomas Collyns Simon, 1862, p.18
Jump up ^ Palta, Namrata. (2007). Spoken English: a Detailed and Simplified Course for Learning Spoken English, p. 95.
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