# Question about opening credits of "Cheers" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366 "2002-05-10T20:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/81 "2016-01-22T15:13:02Z")
That is an amazing recreation. I wonder if they just tore it down afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/82 "2016-01-22T20:30:42Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > However, I understand there’s a full re-creation of the Cheers set in the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, so it’s possible it was filmed there. It’s likely the set was moved there and reassembled when it was taken down to make room for _ **Frasier** _’s. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/83 "2016-01-22T20:42:02Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > I think it’s a baseball headline. Somebody clinched the National League pennant when their team won while St. Louis was losing. From a quick search of Retrosheet I haven’t been able to track down the NL pennant race that would fit the scenario. > [@pyschonaut](#): > > The “WE WIN” headline doesn’t refer to the end of Prohibition, nor the end of World War II. Rather, it celebrates the Brooklyn Dodgers winning a pennant. Ah, there is the missing piece of the puzzle. The newspaper headlines the events of September 25, 1941 when the Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the national league pennant by defeating the Boston Braves “as Cards lose to Bucs”–that is, as the St. Louis Cardinals were losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates. So now we know. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/84 "2016-01-22T21:07:56Z")
> [@Will\_Dockery](#): > > Wow, apologies for letting all the typos slip in on the previous post. > > Here’s a fascinating history of Craigville, Minnesotam where the famous Cheers photo was taken, including several other photos taken in the same saloon: > > [Guide to Craig Minnesota](http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Craig.htm) The last photo on that page is another image of the guy and cheers lady. labeled Lumberjack and two “attendants” in saloon of Craigsville Minnesota, 1937 - See more at: heres the cheers photo > **[Cheers: 1937](https://www.shorpy.com/node/7798)** > > September 1937. Craigville, Minnesota. "Saturday night in a saloon." Medium format negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. I guess these were ladys of the evening as they used to call them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sheedreems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sheedreems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sheedreems)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/85 "2016-02-06T09:58:08Z")
All this talk about George Wendt being ignored is just plain hogwash. He has had, all along, Star Billing!!! In the credits when someone is saved for last in the credits with “and George Wendt”. That is considered Star Billing folks. Wendt has had that from the beginning of Cheers and I always wondered why they gave him star billing and why Danson and Long went along with him getting such a spot. He was not a huge star by any stretch of the imagine. And once a big Broadway Star like BeBe Newirth came on board why they didn’t give her at least the same courtesy. She was a big Broadway Star after all. But they didn’t. George Wendt kept that special spot all to himself. Who the heck was George Wendt to get such billing??!!!? And many folks thinks he was ignored in the pics - that is just too, too funny. His name is the very last name you see in the credits for a nice period of time. Believe me when I say George Wendt was anything but slighted. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-opening-credits-of-cheers/108366/86 "2016-02-06T10:23:53Z")
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