Q. Why was Potsie from TV’s “Happy Days” in town 50 years ago this month?
A. Anson Williams, who played Potsie Weber on TV’s “Happy Days,” was among the celebrity guests for the “March of Dimes Telerama” Jan. 25-26, 1975, at Memorial Auditorium.
According to the Jan. 27, 1975, Chattanooga News-Free Press, the Telerama raised over $75,000 (or about $454,000 in today’s money) to help fight birth defects. While that total was about $10,000 less than the year before, it seemed “more impressive in view of current economic conditions, including unemployment and higher prices,” the paper reported.