Mention “Happy Days” to TV viewers of a certain age (raises hand) and the first thing they remember might be not an episode or a scene or a catchphrase but a lunchbox.
To remember “Happy Days” is to remember your youth, which was also the function of “Happy Days” when it premiered in 1974.
Now “Happy Days” is 50 years old.
Last year, that series’s sequel, “That ’90s Show,” created a ’90s version of the ’70s version of the ’50s.
“Happy Days” was nostalgic because the teenagers weren’t smoking weed.
Persons:
Henry Winkler, greaser, Arthur Fonzarelli, Spike Jonze, Buddy Holly, ”
Organizations:
Smithsonian
Locations:
Wisconsin