Gasoline Sales in Mayberry - Ken

Ken, the reason Goober pumped so little gas with the Mayberry population being what it was, is because people lived close by to one another , most hung uptown but more importantly if you lived in Mayberry why would you want to leave town to begin with ? Ok to take the kids to play baseball again

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..There is one lowly gas station to serve all the residentsKen Anderson Ken, Didn't Joe Larson have a gas station that Ed Sawyer wanted to buy...and wasn't there talk about a gas station being built somewhere else in town, (not sure about that one)...but like you Ken,  the closest town t

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On Dick Van Dyke tonight is Ken Lynch who played various parts on TAGS, Don "Newt Monroe" Rickles, and Allan "Fred Plummer" Melvin. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/

Wally's

During the episode "Goober's Contest", Goober mentioned that there was another station somewhere nearby.I do not exactly recall where it was.That is because it is getting so hard to view the color episodes.TVLand has quit showing the color episodes, and you used to be able to view th

Gasoline Sale Iin Mayberry

Ken brings up a great point for discussion.  I have never actually thought about how Wally's was the only "game in town".  Perhaps the proximity to Floyd's Barber Shop, The Diner, Fred's Drugstore, the courthouse, the Mayberry Cinema, Mr. Goss's drycleaning store, and Mr. Foley's butcher shop

gas in Mayberry

Ken, That just goes to show you, If you want a good tank of gas, you have to go to Mt. Pilot or to Raleigh. Have A Mayberry Day Danna In Indiana ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/

Gas question

School buses would not have bought gas from a service station. Back then as now, they had their own tanks and pumps, bought fuel wholesale and filled the buses daily themselves. Farmers bought their gas in bulk from a distributor, no road tax, since farm tractors seldom used the highways but

Re: Gasoline Sales in Mayberry

I believe there are other service stations, it's just that our favorite characters only patronized the one we know and love, Wally's. Ed Sawyer bought a station in "Stranger in Town." Mayor Stoner's brother-in-law had a station by the new highway overpass, ref. "The Loaded Goat." There's no ov