Mt. Airy - Mayberry, NC

During our travels from the coast to the mountains on our vacation, we stopped by a small town to get something to drink. Image our surprise when we discovered it was the home of the TV series Mayberry.

And the soda fountain where we bought an ice cream cone was called 'Barney's Cafe'. Sorry i didn't get a photograph of it. At that time we were sitting on a bench in front of the store rather puzzled at the old police car that kept circulating up and down the street ... so we began to look closer and discovered, yes we asked someone, that Mountain Airy was the shooting location of many of the Mayberry TV scenes. Surprises in the mountains on a hot July summer day!