I feel happy.  As this is the title for today, got to mention that TV series,  Happy Days .  Ran for 11 years from 1974 to 1984.   Few know that the pilot of this show led to the 1973 film,  American Graffiti , Modesto in 1962, the year I graduated from college.  What a cast: Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Wolfman Jack and many others. Director George Lucas grew up in Modesto, but his home town had changed too much for the film, so the production occurred in Petaluma. Paul Le Matt, Harrison Ford and Bo Hopkins were reported to be drunk most nights. The soundtrack was the star of the movie, featuring  41 original hits , and there was a theme song for the  Happy Days   TV series. Ron Howard, now 70, matured from Opie Taylor into this film and series. He has done well, for he became a noted director, winning two Oscars, four Emmies and a Grammy. Henry Winkler made Fonzie famous, and the show spun off a bunch of others. There was an earlier  Happy Days are Here Again , a 1929 son