As I've gone through the series with a fine tooth comb lately, I've noticed
something else about our favorite fictional town. We've often commented
about how much of Mayberry seems to come from a different time...lifestyle
in general, commerce based in agriculture, its telecom system ("Sarah? Get
me the diner"), Aunt Bee listening to radio soaps two years after the last
real ones were cancelled from network radio, even specific prices of grocery
products. But I would add one other thing to the list: Mayberry's
television sets. They all, but the Taylors' in particular, seem rather
ancient
even by 1960s standards. They appear to date back to the very earliest days
of television, the late 1940s and early 1950s...in fact even the local TV
repair service has sets in his window that are obsolete even in the 1960s.
One of them even has a round screen!
What's amazing is, when Aunt Bee appears on TV, we still manage to see her
in living color on sets that predate regular color TV. That TV repair man
must do amazing things with those old sets.
Dixon
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