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For those who have been to Mt Airy, you may remember that the Emporium
is a three story building on Main Street that has multiple booths of
good quality arts and crafts items, clothing and a host of other
merchandise and it still houses a makeshift Mayberry Jail for
photographs. On the third floor of the Emporium are two mechanized
statues of an "old" man and an "old" woman that are very real looking
and they used to vibrate when you would stand in front of them. Today on
American Pickers, Mike and Frank were in Wisconsin farmland on a "pick",
and I noticed in the background of a building the same statue of the man
that is in the Emporium. I watched the rest of the show just to see if
they were interested in the statue but they weren't. Seeing that statue
reminded me of seeing "him" in Mt Airy during my many trips to Mayberry
Days and that Mayberry is Everywhere :-) - The Gollywobbler
