Opie's Fortune
On August 31, younger brother turned 57. So nice to be with Mom, Grandma, siblings, grandkids, nephews and nieces celebrating with dinner, cake and gifts. Great to all be together. We celebrated at his place in north central Ontario. ( about an hour south of Algonquin Park ) After, we all watched Opie's Fortune. It was great to see ages 14 to 80 enjoying and seeing the humour and care as Barney read the newspaper to Andy regarding Earl Pike's birthday gift of a brand new car to his boy. "How old is his boy?" "He's 57, isn't he?" Andy's nod toward's Barneyjust so fantastic. Just shows how our favourite show lives on and transcends the ages. Take care. Nick, in Ontario, Canada Sent from my iPad ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Opie's Fortune
It is amazing how often a TAGS episode will bring back some long ago memories from days gone by. Episode 136 "Opie's Fortune," where Opie finds Parnell Rigsby's purse containing $50, certainly brought memories back to me. When I was growing up in the late '50's I had a secret source of income. We lived in a small town and about two blocks from our house was our village auditorium. It served as both our school gymnasium as well as a dance hall on Saturday nights. Every Saturday night for years, wedding dances were held in this building, so very early every Sunday morning I would get up and walk back and forth in the parking lot of that dance hall. I was searching for money that people dropped when reaching into their pockets for their car keys after the dance. I was never disappointed in that every Sunday morning I was able to find various amounts of change lying on the ground. But one Sunday morning I found a torn and dirty ten dollar bill. You can imagine how excited I was. The only problem was that none of the stores would accept it because so much of it had been torn off. So I took it to the bank and they sent it somewhere to see if it could be replaced. I had almost forgotten about it until one day weeks later the bank called and told me they had a brand new ten dollar bill for me. I never revealed my Sunday morning sunrise adventures to anyone and I continued my Sunday morning searches well into my high school years. Kenneth G. Anderson 2906 May Street Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701 715-839-8470 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mayberryreflections.com ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
