If pressed, many blue collar workers living in or around Milwaukee in the mid-to-late 1950s would readily admit that the world of “Happy Days” is an absurd reflection of the cultural ethos as they remember it. A more accurate description might be something like, “Asbestos Days,” or “Laverne and Shirley Get Knocked Up by Poor Germanic Toughs and Wind Up Whores Hooked on Smack by Early 1962.”
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And “Chachi”, after finding out it was a lot more enjoyable to put it to Joanie up the old Coal Mine Road, moved to New York and became a driving force behind the Stonewall Riots.
I don’t know how this thread started but I have lived in Milwaukee since 1955. That isn’t the Milwayke of the 50’s and 60’s that I remember. I remember a very hard working and honest city with great food and great people. And without any significant problems with drugs to speak of. That would come later with the “free living/loving” 60’s and liberal domination of the social agenda.
LIES! REVISIONIST LIES!
The Boy is a brutal taskmaster. The Lady, on the other hand….
Lenny and Squiggy were krauts??!! Who knew?
At least they were fertile krauts. And were willing to listen to even their most basic procreatic instincts… even if Laverne and Shirley were just a couple of dime store whores.
Blatz me!
Hey Anonymous—one of the most delightful things I’ve done recently is watch & read the panicked-parent variety of literature and movies from the 1940s and 1950s. Reefer Madness and all that. Surprising how we don’t really hear all that often about it, but there was apparently some significant portion of teen society that were, well, rebels without a cause.
Well that explains the whole Fonze and Mork episode then.
“Happy Days”—the Show That Made the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Happy.