Editing Happy Days (section)

==== Sets ====
[[File:Happy days 1976 fonzies apartment.JPG|thumb|left|180px|Richie and Fonzie view his destroyed motorcycle in his living room, 1976. Fonzie's apartment was over the Cunninghams' garage.]]

The show had two main sets: the Cunningham home and Arnold's/Al's [[Drive-In]].

In seasons one and two, the Cunningham house was arranged with the front door on the left and the kitchen on the right of screen, in a triangular arrangement. From season three on, the house was rearranged to accommodate multiple cameras and a studio audience.

The Cunninghams' official address is 565 North Clinton Drive, [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].<ref>''Wilcox's Soaps & More TV Character Address and Trivia Book'' (2004)</ref> The house that served as the exterior of the Cunningham residence is actually located at 565 North Cahuenga Boulevard (south of Melrose Avenue) in Los Angeles,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-21 |title=Iconic Movie and TV Houses of L.A. |url=https://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/iconic-movie-and-tv-houses-of-la-5023914 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111234058/https://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/iconic-movie-and-tv-houses-of-la-5023914 |archive-date=January 11, 2019 |access-date=January 11, 2019 |website=LA Weekly}}</ref> several blocks from the Paramount lot on Melrose Avenue.

The Milky Way Drive-In, located on Port Washington Road in the North Shore suburb of [[Glendale, Wisconsin]] (now [[Kopp's Frozen Custard]] Stand), was the inspiration for the original Arnold's Drive-In; it has since been demolished. The exterior of Arnold's was a standing set on the Paramount Studios lot that has since been demolished. This exterior was close to Stage 19, where the rest of the show's sets were located.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

The set of the diner in the first two seasons was a room with the same vague details of the later set, such as the paneling, and the college pennants. When the show changed to a studio production in 1975, the set was widened and the entrance was hidden, but allowed an upstage, central entrance for cast members. The barely-seen kitchen was also upstaged and seen only through a pass-through window. The diner had orange booths, downstage center for closeup conversation, as well as camera left. There were two restroom doors camera right, labeled "Guys" and "Dolls". A 1953 [[Seeburg Corporation|Seeburg]] Model G jukebox (with replaced metal [[pilaster]]s from Wico Corp.) was positioned camera right, and an [[anachronism|anachronistic]] "Nip-It" pinball machine (actually produced in 1972) was positioned far camera right.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
[[File:Happy days at arnolds 1975.JPG|thumb|Potsie, Richie, Fonzie, and Ralph Malph at Arnold's, 1975]]

In 2004, two decades after the first set was destroyed, the ''Happy Days 30th Anniversary Reunion'' requested that the reunion take place in Arnold's. The set was rebuilt by production designer James Yarnell based on the original floor plan. The reunion special was taped at [[CBS Television City]]'s Bob Barker Studio in September 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 7, 1954 |title=Shows |url=http://www.cbstelevisioncity.com/shows |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713152856/http://www.cbstelevisioncity.com/shows |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |publisher=CBS Television City}}</ref>