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A Modern Christmas Classic

Saturday, 3 December 2016, 23:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 29

I’ll take “A Christmas Story” every time.

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You can watch “It’s A Wonderful” on continuous loop on Christmas day.

Vanity Fair gives the 1983 classic an enjoyable salute Here

29 Comments on A Modern Christmas Classic

  2. Sadly, Bob Clark the director and cowriter of A Christmas Story was killed along with his son Ariel in 2007 on the Pacific Coast Highway by a drunken illegal alien who hit them head on.

  11. Ah, “A Christmas Story.” I have a full-size Leg Lamp glowing in the upstairs bedroom window. Since I live on a hill, I imagine there have been more than a few chuckles among passersby over the years as it can be seen from a distance. The fam and I quote lines from this classic movie all year long. It’s A++++++++++++++++++++++. 😄

  12. My wife and I dropped my 1 and a half year old son with my parents and went to see A Christmas Story when it first came out at the theater. We loved it and laughed ourselves silly. Needless to say it has become my 3 kids favorite Christmas movie which they still watch each year and will show to their kids when they get a little older. Other than The Princess Bride it’s the most quoted movie amongst my kids, they know every line. It’s a classic for all ages and hopefully will endure so my great grandkids and their succeeding generations can watch it as well. My favorite scenes are Ralphie saying Fudge and then having to eat the Lifebouy soap and Flick being triple dog dared to stick his tongue on the frozen flagpole and the Old Man’s obsession with the leg lamp. Can you say Fragilee?

  14. Eugenia, I too miss Higbees. Worked there thru high school on the sales floor(not the downtown one). Higbees was a bit out of our price range.In those days we had K-mart and Sears for clothes shopping and Higbees for special occasions.

    And, I will watch A Christmas Story with my kid. A good laugh every time.

  15. You’ll shoot your eye out!
    True story – I put oil in the compression chamber of my Crosman air rifle and pumped it until I could barely close the lever. I shot at a rusty can in a trash pile and the BB ricocheted off a brick that was behind it. I could see the BB coming back at me for an instant and it hit me in the forehead, leaving a nasty little cut. I don’t know what the muzzle velocity was, but it sounded like a 22 rifle!

  17. As a kid our family used to go downtown Cleveland to shop – there were no malls at the time (gasp!).
    I remember the window displays, the fabulous displays inside the department stores and the wooden escalators, but probably the most impressive of all was the Sterling Linder Davis Christmas tree inside the mezzanine area. Forty feet tall with ornaments as big as a shed on it! Bigger Than Life is the only way to describe it! Hixon’s Barn in Lakewood has some of the original Halles figurines that were in the window displays.
    Also there is a website dedicated to Jean Shepherd WOR broadcasts for anyone that wants to get a kick out of listening to his radio show:

    http://jeanshepherdpodcast.blogspot.com/

  18. I bought one of those lamps 15 years ago. It is still a fixture in the living room to this day, not just around Christmas but all year long.

    Great movie, I pull lines from it all the time and relate them to my kids. Let’s go! Everyone is ready besides Mary, and she just lays there like a slug!

  20. Some years ago the family got together for Christmas at Mom’s house. She was recovering from a recent surgery so I suggested Chinese take-out.
    After dinner we watched A Christmas Story.

    Chinese for Christmas Dinner is now a family tradition.

  21. @Dave, we used to hit the 50% sale the evening before it was official. Everything was already manually marked down. Otherwise it was too expensive.
    What happened to Mr. Jing-A-Ling?

    @TheRatFink
    Oh joy Hixon’s is still there. Need to pay a visit. We used to live off Madison decades ago and went to Hixons a lot. There were 2 other Hixon’s, I think, in Lorain County. Oh oh oh nostalgia time.
    The Bavarian Pastry Shop was another favorite place along with a resale shop on Madison called Affordable Treasures. You could spend all day there rummaging and chatting with the guys who owned it.
    Was it Beardens that had trains running from the ceiling?
    I need a road trip before the snow flies.
    A few more I wonder if they are still there – Kindler’s in the Flats, Tick Tock Tavern and the best ribs, Hansa House Imports.

  22. I just discovered that Dept 56, the company that makes the Heritage ceramic Villages, does a “Christmas Story” village too. You can find good buys on pieces from Craigslist and EBay. They’re very cute and have lots of little accessories that retell the scenes from the story. The Dept 56 website has a ‘history’ list of all the associated pieces and whether or not they are retired.

    @Chip Kale — We frequently have Chinese food for Christmas dinner for other reasons — usually because we do a big Christmas brunch and then snack all day on cookies and candy! Chinese take out is all that is available on Christmas day.

  24. Jean Shepherd told great stories to which everyone could relate. I first read him as he was a regular contributor to Playboy magazine in the 1960’s. I babysat for a United Church Deacon and his wife and his “stash” of Playboy magazines were in the downstairs bathroom. Loved the Christmas Story when I first read it, loved the movie. Yes I classic!

  25. Eugenia – Yes Beardens on Lake Rd had the trains. It changed hands, but is still there. They renovated it, put a slice of a ’66 Mustang on the side. It looks pretty cool and yes, it still has the trains, the Peanutburger, onion rings as big as donuts and great malts.
    We go to Hixon’s every year to get the traditional ornaments and Bill signs them. For anyone who doesn’t know, Bill Hixon has done many ornaments for the White House over many administrations.

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