DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE THE PICTURES IN THE OPENING CREDITS CAME FROM, WHO ARE THE PICTURES OF AND WHAT IS THE BAR WHERE THEY ARE TAKEN ?

I think the pictures from the opener are some that the creators came accross. They give the show that compforting feel right in the beginning. I really dont know though ha.

I have no clue, nor has it ever been addressed before. I think.

Can some1 post the opening caps? :)


Tiff7

I'm almost positive that some of the pictures were made specifically for the show.

Originally posted by tiff7
Can some1 post the opening caps? :)

I made caps from the season two DVD. Click here (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=649&password) and scroll to the bottom.

The picture of Truman with the newspaper is a famous photograph. The pictures that correspond to the performers were well chosen as they relate in some way to the characters. The ones of Frasier and Lilith may indeed have been made specifically for the series. The one of Woody is really uncannily like Woody Harelson. Funny that they never had a picture for Sam Malone.

Originally posted by jamesanthony
Funny that they never had a picture for Sam Malone.

They certainly did. The mustached bartender was used, from season six on.

no one seems to know where any of them came from.
the verse half of the theme had drawings...obviously, the cheers exterior ones were created specifically for the show. i assume that the interior drawings were too. this goes for the logo pic too, as well as the Starring/Ted Danson/Shelley Long drawing

all of the actual photos (starting w/ the cast pics, except for Ted and Shelley in seasons 1-5), I personally think, are from some archive somewhere of turn-of-the-century pics. i dont think any of them were taken specifically for the show.

ok...heres somethin from my collection, the full (much bigger, anyway) pic of the drawing right before the chorus starts.

u can see alot more ppl here

here the one right before that one, notice that theres an american flag...it doesnt look as much like Cheers here

apparently, they reversed it for the show...?

i have some more, so let me know if u want then posted

Do you have one that says "and george wendt"??

because I plan on changing my avatar later next week.

Originally posted by FOLN@NFan
apparently, they reversed it for the show...?

good thing they did.... it looks TERRIBLE that way.

I have George Wendt's 2nd picture, posted below (the "We Win" newspaper headline one), but not the first one. sorry

and the last pic (the created by... one)...doesnt it only look terrible because u are used to seeing it the other way?

sorry, forgot the pic

Originally posted by FOLN@NFan
sorry, forgot the pic

hello avatar!!

This is a little OT, but I was in a record store the other day and saw this CD, "Irish Drinking Songs" and it had one of those pictures for a cover. :lol:

Originally posted by MaydayMalonesGirl
This is a little OT, but I was in a record store the other day and saw this CD, "Irish Drinking Songs" and it had one of those pictures for a cover. :lol:

haha


you mean this....

Originally posted by barwars88
haha


you mean this....

Yeah, thats it.

Awhile ago I won all of the opening prints off ebay. Each of em are 11x14 and they came in this really cool portfolio. They are just the pictures though, not the casts names. i think one day I'll have to frame all of em and hang em up.

hey Norm...
were the prints "official Cheers memorabilia", or what? have u ever seen them again? id love 2 have em...

The prints I'm pretty sure were released by paramount as a final idea of what the opening shots will be. They are 11x14 and come in this big portfolio with a nice big cheers logo on it. Has the company name and stuff too. I posted them awhile back, I'll see if i can find the thread.....

I found some on my post! Look for Cheers opening credits for the original pics from the opening credits.

It always bothered me that George Wendt didn't have his own individual one, they just used 2 over his instead of "his own one" like the others.

Google these pics: Rudy Sohn's Barbershop Junction City, KS
Saturday Night at a Saloon by Russell Lee
Irish Lion Back Bar Bloomington, IN

Also there's a book call Our Town On The Plains where they have some pics used for the opening credits.

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE THE PICTURES IN THE OPENING CREDITS CAME FROM, WHO ARE THE PICTURES OF AND WHAT IS THE BAR WHERE THEY ARE TAKEN ?
The pictures, done by Castle/Bryant Motion Designs, were pics of bars from the late 19th to early 20th century. Woody's pic was actually a butcher place. The pic after Ted's and Shelley's pic was a barbershop.

I wonder if there's any way to identify WHO these folks were in the vintage photos? I mean Woody and Lillith's doppelgangers especially were downright uncanny in capturing their performers' characters' countenances ! The producers must have spent zillions of hours pouring over scrapbooks, microfilm, etc.

I wonder if there's any way to identify WHO these folks were in the vintage photos? I mean Woody and Lillith's doppelgangers especially were downright uncanny in capturing their performers' characters' countenances ! The producers must have spent zillions of hours pouring over scrapbooks, microfilm, etc.
Castle/Bryant Motion Designs created the opening credits to Cheers. They were pic of people from the late 19th early 20th century.

I found some more from the opening credits!

Here's a few:

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE THE PICTURES IN THE OPENING CREDITS CAME FROM, WHO ARE THE PICTURES OF AND WHAT IS THE BAR WHERE THEY ARE TAKEN ?

The few real pictures are taken at my family bar, still thriving and in operation, The Legendary Silver Dollar Saloon Leadville, CO

The one with the WE WIN, was taken at the Fitzgerald Bar in Brooklyn during the Dodgers' pennant run.

Do you have one that says "and george wendt"??

because I plan on changing my avatar later next week.

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