For a decade those who grew up in the Seventies got a look back at what the culture was like for their parents with Happy Days. I doubt there were ever such perfect parents as Tom Bosley and Marion Ross who were the answer to Ward and June Cleaver.
Meet the Cunningham family parents already noted and their all American kids Ron Howard and Erin Moran. They hailed from Milwaukee, Wisconsin where Howard Cunningham had a hardware store and Marion was a housewife in the truest sense, she was married to both Howard and their home. The thought of a second income was anathema, but in those days of Eisenhower one income homes were not unusual.
But what made Happy Days have some spark was their boarder Arthur Fonzarelli, the inimitable Fonz. Fonzie started out as a peripheral character, but Henry Winkler got such notice that he got moved into the Cunningham household where he dispensed a lot of good advice to the younger ones who might have thought the parents just didn't get it.
Having grown up in the Fifties life was hardly anything like the Cunningham household any more than it was with the Cleavers. Still it was a good family show and if you liked the sounds of the later part of the decade than this was certainly your show.
Meet the Cunningham family parents already noted and their all American kids Ron Howard and Erin Moran. They hailed from Milwaukee, Wisconsin where Howard Cunningham had a hardware store and Marion was a housewife in the truest sense, she was married to both Howard and their home. The thought of a second income was anathema, but in those days of Eisenhower one income homes were not unusual.
But what made Happy Days have some spark was their boarder Arthur Fonzarelli, the inimitable Fonz. Fonzie started out as a peripheral character, but Henry Winkler got such notice that he got moved into the Cunningham household where he dispensed a lot of good advice to the younger ones who might have thought the parents just didn't get it.
Having grown up in the Fifties life was hardly anything like the Cunningham household any more than it was with the Cleavers. Still it was a good family show and if you liked the sounds of the later part of the decade than this was certainly your show.