Where might Mayfield be located?
Even though Mayfield isn’t located in any state, it’s still fun to find the clues and speculate. The show contains numerous, contradictory clues. Most importantly, LITB was written by several different writers, all of whom borrowed from their own childhood and families to compose stories. So, there is no consistency. It’s certainly not like the writers had one particular Mayfield in mind and kept it as a closely guarded secret. In the Voodoo Curse episode, there is an Ohio state banner in Eddie Haskell’ss room. In The Boat Builders, Ward Cleaver states that they “live twenty minutes from the ocean.”. In other shows, they talk about visiting California and an Uncle who lives in Florida. When the Cleavers get away for the weekend at Friends Lake with its 30+ foot pine trees, one can be sure the Cleaver’s are not in flat and baron states of New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. In one show, Wallys high school teachers offers to take a group of students to Mexico for a summer trip. One can specu
