The Hollywood icon Henry Winkler reunited with his Happy Days co-stars Donny Most and Anson Williams last week to attend the famous Iola Car Show in Wisconsin.
Happy Days Stars Reunite
Winkler, Most, and Williams starred together on Happy Days from 1974 until 1984. In the decades since then, they’ve remained close friends.
“We love what we do, and we loved what we did. We all love Happy Days,” Winkler, who played The Fonz, told Fox 11 Online.
“Also Milwaukee, and also here. I mean, Happy Days and Wisconsin kind of goes together. It’s been a marriage since the beginning. So there’s always been a special place,” added Williams, who played Potsie.
“The other half of the circle are the people who watch,” Winkler continued. “And if they don’t watch, we go home. And now, we get to meet the people who have enjoyed us, and they tell us with such warmth. I think it’s spectacular.”
Fans came from all over just to meet the three Happy Days stars.
“I wanted to see ‘The Fonz.’ A local person, that you grew up with. Part of my childhood, along with Donny and Anson too,” said one fan.
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Iola Car Show
Iola Car Show officials were overjoyed to have the Happy Days stars at their event.
“Having three members of the cast of Happy Days here celebrating 50 years of happy days for them, as well as a handful of other stars from that era. There’s a ton of buzz around coming and meeting some of everybody’s heroes,” Iola Car Show Executive Director Joe Opperman told NBC 26.
Opperman went on to say that the cars and the Happy Days stars all added to the nostalgia aspect of this event.
“For more people it’s really about taking them back to a simpler time, taking them back to their youth, maybe sharing some memories of kids and grandkids that they experienced,” he explained.
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Happy Days Stars Talk Show’s Success
Earlier this year, Most and Williams opened up about why Happy Days was so successful.
“People did find some sort of relief and a nice escape to look back on a simpler time and the nostalgia connected to it,” Most told The New York Post.
“What made it have legs, and why it still resonates with people, has more to do with a combination of casting the show, which was a little bit of lightning-in-a-bottle … and great chemistry and a very talented cast,” he continued, adding that “it sounds clichéd, but we were like family.”
Williams was quick to agree with his former co-star.
“I think the reason the show has connected in so many different cultures was that it was a show about family and friends that gave before they took,” he explained. “Fonzie, no matter what, would always be there for you as a friend.”
“The cast were givers, not takers, and the importance of family felt so right to so many people,” he added. “It was love, friendship and selflessness that captured you on a very human level in a very subtle way.”
They really don’t make shows like Happy Days anymore. It’s nice to see that Winkler, Most, and Williams are still such close friends to this day!
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