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Seen on many vehicles in East and West Marin these days are bumper stickers<\/strong> that joke, “Fairfax, Mayberry on Acid.<\/strong>” The one above was photographed in Point Reyes Station. Neither the joke nor the bumper sticker is new, but helping popularize them was a brief video<\/a><\/strong> with that title, which was entered in the 2007 Fairfax Short Documentary Film Challenge.<\/p>\n Fairfax (pop. 7,000) is, of course, a swinging little place with its own head shop and a cannabis buyers’ club located next to the Little League ballfield. The documentary included some shots of baseball players, but its focus was on older members of the counterculture.<\/p>\n But unlike these aging bohos, most motorists I’ve seen with the bumper sticker have been young adults, and I question whether many of them are actually familiar with the Andy Griffith Show<\/em>, which was set in the fictional town of Mayberry, N.C.<\/p>\n The show aired from 1960 to 1968, and its sequel, Mayberry R.F.D<\/em>. (Rural Free Delivery), aired from 1968 to 1971. Perhaps some younger folks have seen reruns.<\/p>\n The original <\/em>Andy Griffith Show, in which he played a widowed sheriff in Mayberry, included Ron Howard as his son Opie (center), Frances Bavier as Aunt Bea, his spinster aunt and housekeeper (upper left), and Don Knotts as <\/em> Barney Fife, <\/em>his well-intentioned but bumbling deputy (lower right)<\/em>.<\/p>\n The one-stoplight town of Mayberry had no major crime, just a little moonshining and the like, along with an occasional wrongdoer showing up from elsewhere.<\/p>\n![\"Picture](\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Picture-2.png\" "\\"Picture")
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