A volunteer in the gift shop described a typical museum visitor: "They want to step back to a simpler time. "It teaches us to be neighborly to take care of one another," said Abigail.
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The words "wholesome" and "sweetness" pop up regularly when discussing The Andy Griffith Show, full of lovable characters, harmless joshing, and happy endings in a town where sheriff Andy never even carried a gun. That's fascinating to me."Īndy Griffith returned to Mount Airy when it screened his first Hollywood film. "But we see our visitor numbers increasing every year. "Some people in town still don't see it as sustainable," said Abigail Linville, the Andy Griffith Museum's director of collections. Mayberry tourism is now Mount Airy's most thriving industry.
Another 20 years passed before the town finally opened an Andy Griffith Museum, in 2009.Īnd yet The Andy Griffith Show - or "TAGS" as devoted fans call it - has remained so popular that the decades-long delay didn't matter. Its first "Mayberry Days" festival wasn't held until over 20 years after series ended its run in 1968. But The Andy Griffith Show was filmed in Hollywood, not small-town North Carolina, and the formative years of television tourism saw Mount Airy keep its distance from Mayberry. Today, real-world locations of hit TV shows are eager to lengthen their moment in the spotlight. The view across Andy's sheriff desk in Mayberry.
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