Making Our Dreams Come True

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A stone’s throw away from the Bronze Fonz is another TV landmark linked to a Garry Marshall production. Milwaukee City Hall, a scant walk from The Fonz, is another familiar spot to those fans of a TV Land generation. 

During it’s first five seasons of it’s eight season run, Milwaukee City Hall would “Welcome” it’s visitors to it’s city during Laverne and Shirley’s opening intro after the duo’s familiar skip.

The familiar “WELCOME MILWAUKEE VISITORS” sign would be removed in 1988 due to increased costs of maintenance. The letters would later be given to the Milwaukee County Historical Center.

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Finished in 1895 City Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005.  



Why Milwaukee?

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When passing through the M-K-E perhaps to catch a Brewers game among your ballpark travels, one must wonder how the Happy Days gang and Laverne and Shirley would end up in Milwaukee. Producer Thomas L. Miller was a native of Milwaukee , providing a huge influence on the two shows backdrop. Miller would be a part of the famous Miller-Boyett production tandem that would later produce Mork and Mindy (another Happy Days spinoff), Perfect Strangers, Family Matters and Full House.  20220930_174728

Just one of Drei’s Journey’s Beyond The Yard…

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