Many members of my generation grew up watching the daily lives of the cartoon residents of Bedrock. Though the Flintstones characters lived in the Town of Bedrock, there are a number of actual cities and towns whose name could have easily “filled in” (bad pun) for Bedrock. For a little fun today, these “yabba-dabba-do” places include the following (partial list):

Basalt, Colorado

Bedford (multiple states)

Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Flat Rock, Michigan and North Carolina

Flint, Michigan

Granite City, Illinois

Granite Falls, North Carolina

Granite Quarry, North Carolina

Granite Springs, New York

Grindstone City, Michigan

Little Rock, Arkansas

Marble Falls, Texas

Marblehead, Massachusetts

New Bedford, Massachusetts

North Little Rock, Arkansas

Pebble Beach, California

Point of Rocks, Maryland

Quarryville, Pennsylvania

Quartz Hill, California

Quartzsite, Arizona

Rockaway, New Jersey

Rock City, Tennessee

Rock Creek, Minnesota

Rockford, Illinois and Michigan

Rockingham, North Carolina

Rock Island, Illinois

Rockland, Maine

Rockledge, Florida

Rockport (multiple states)

Rock Rapids, Iowa

Rock Springs, Wyoming

Rockton, Illinois

Rockville, Indiana and Maryland

Rockwood, Michigan

Rocky Ford, Colorado

Rocky Hill, Connecticut and Kentucky

Rocky Mount, North Carolina and Virginia

Rocky Mountain House, Alberta

Rocky Point, New York

Rocky Ridge, Ohio

Round Rock, Texas

Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

South Rockwood, Michigan

Stoneham, Massachusetts

Stone Harbor, New Jersey

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Stone Park, Illinois

Stonewall, Louisiana

Stonington, Connecticut

Stony Creek, Connecticut and Ontario

Table Rock, Wyoming