Creekmaikids - The Education Place: Bob's Big Boy - Andy of Mayberry Lake - Sheriff Taylor - Andy Griffith - Opie Taylor

A good burger, hold the mayo please.

Monica grew up with these Bob's Big Boy restaurants not far from her home.

I just love the trees that overhang the roads. These are pines in the Hollywood Hills. They obviously do not want many people to visit the famous lake where they filmed Andy of Marberrey. Just to find the road, we drove past it several times until we found the right road. It is very secluded but open to the public if you have the patience to find it.

People build these houses hanging on cliffs for great views and no regard for brush fires or erosion and mud slides from the rain. Many have sprinkler systems to keep the surrounding area green and not dry.

This is one of the lakes where the TV show was filmed. It is teaming with life: turtles, fish, frogs, butterflies, and birds.

Is this the lake and the spot where Opie skipped the rock in the opening scene of the show?

Opie was five when he first started on Andy of Mayberry.

A duck swims by, brids chirp, frogs croak, grasshoppers sing.

These were so many fish, the lake looks like nobody fishes there. The fish, if you look closely, you see are pan fish.

This looks like the place, pine trees and evergreens and red dirt trails, where Sheriff Taylor and Opie walked with their fishing poles.

It is hard to believe we are a couple miles from Beverly Hills.

Could this be the spot?

The real name of Andy's lake is Franklin Lake.

Another spot that might be it.

The lakes are reportedly lower than they were when the TV show was filmed and they are overgrown. On Golden Pond was partially filmed here too.

We walked around both lakes. Moni is very patient and willing to take me around to all the places I wanted to visit in LA; Andy Mayberry Lake,bookstores, antique shops, restaurants, beaches, the seaside town of Carpinteria, the Betty Davis House, James Dean's House, mass, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Getty.