Happy Days, Fonzie jacket sold for 75 thousand dollars

The dark brown leather jacket worn by Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli, one of the coolest icons on the small screen, in the TV series “Happy Days” was sold for $ 75,312 at an auction by Bonhams in Los Angeles. To put the legendary jacket on sale, with a starting estimate of 50 thousand dollars, was directly the actor Henry Winkler, 76, star of the 1950s themed show, broadcast from 1974 to 1984. Another jacket worn by However, Fonzie will remain in Winkler’s house. The jacket sold is part of a complete Fonzie outfit that also includes two white cotton t-shirts, a pair of Levi’s denim jeans and a pair of black leather biker boots worn during the first five years of “Happy Days”. A total of 26 lots from Henry Winkler’s collection were sold at auction. “During the pandemic I was in the mood for spring cleaning, except it lasted a year and a half,” Winkler said in an interview with “The Hollywood Reporter.” “I found 27 boxes and those boxes were filled with memorabilia from ‘Happy Days’ to’ Waterboy ‘to’ Scream ‘. The boxes contained everything from shirts to hats to a book I read on set and two masks from’ Scream ‘”. Part of the proceeds from the Bonhams auction will go to support the non-profit organization This Is About Humanity, co-founded by actor daughter Zoe Winkler. Winkler said he was aware of the existence of only five other jackets worn by Fonzie, in addition to the two in his possession: the one donated to the Smithsonian in 1980; one that was “stolen from Paramount’s costume department, the first I’ve ever worn”; one that was destroyed after it was ruined on the set during a waterskiing scene; and two that were in the possession of series creator Garry Marshall. As part of the Bonhams auction, a pair of mechanic suits the actor wore in “Happy Days”, a jacket from Ron Howard’s “Night Shift” (1982) set, and a jacket were also sold. pair of cowboy boots for the movie “The Lords of Flatbush”.