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Twirling girls with red and white flowers carefully placed into their high buns wore colorful dresses and wide smiles as they flounced across the blacktop at McPolin Elementary School last week.
>> it wasn't by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn't by accident everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet tender show. looking back on that era of the 50s with a certain affection. >> abc wanted fonzie's aye to compete with jimmy j.j. walkers dynamite. >> catch phrases were big. >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say thank you, arnold? >> no, do you know what they say? >> sit on it arnold. that's what they say. >> you watch fonzie and you want to be fonzie. >> girls, knock yourselves out. i'm sorry. it was a slip of the fingers. >...
Howard was there to be the straw that stirred the drink. >> let's go. let's go. >> the pairing of howard with don is a classic sitcom odd couple kind of pairing. you couldn't help but be swept up by what those guys were saying. the booth itself was almost like a variety show. >> i called it a traveling freak show and it really was. and the head freak was howard. no question about that. >> the tension between the two of them made for the kind of thing you wanted to see every week. >> professional football is rapidly growing into a very big business. you understand it. >> i like to watch it. >> ...
Monday, monday, monday is the greatest day of the week! >> throughout high school there was one show that was religious broadcasting you had to watch because if you didn't see it you wouldn't have anything to talk about for all of tuesday and most of wednesday and a big part of thursday. >> why? because monday night is nfl football night, that's why. >> monday night football got its start on september 21st, 1970 with cleveland browns hosting the new york jets. >> welcome to primetime national television series. >> this game is under way on abc. >> frank was there for play-by-play and don for r...
At the family ate at the same time at the same table. >> it was a sweet tender show in the era of "american graffiti" with affection. >> abc wanted fonzie's eh to compete directly with jimmie j.j. walker's dynamite. >> i'm the fonz, eh! >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say, take you, howard? you know what they say? >> sit on it, arnold. >> that's what they say. >> you watch fonzie and you just want to be fonz. >> knock yourselves out. i'm sorry. it was a slip of the finger. >> it's a fantasy of what teen life could be. >> defazio, they're here. all right. laverne. this is laverne defazio. s...