buckeyemike Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 linky Just in case you want something to do when the Bills come to Cleveland next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 We're going to be there the week after Christmas and may try to fit it into our schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted November 27, 2006 Author Share Posted November 27, 2006 Christmas Story House webpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 WTF? How can Ohio claim what is distinctively not that area??? Doesn't the original book/movie by Jean Shepherd take place in Hammond, Indiana?... Was the movie shot in Cleveland? Is that the Cleveland/Ohio connection? The series by Shepherd... I thought was a distinctively northwest Indiana thingy? He just passed away a few years ago (1999), 6 years before the Sox won the World Series in 2005... He was a huge White Sox fan... He was born in South Chicago and raised in Hammond... Hence the setting of his most famous work In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash ... This is where the work where A Christmas Story comes from (a short story in that work). That is why a few years a go I was confused in seeing a Shepherd movie resembling A Christmas Story that had a hilarious scene set on Cedar Lake... Indiana... South of Hammond and a few miles from where I currently live. Jean Shepherd ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 WTF? How can Ohio claim what is distinctively not that area??? Doesn't the original book/movie by Jean Shepherd take place in Hammond, Indiana?... Was the movie shot in Cleveland? Is that the Cleveland/Ohio connection? The series by Shepherd... I thought was a distinctively northwest Indiana thingy? He just passed away a few years ago (1999), 6 years before the Sox won the World Series in 2005... He was a huge White Sox fan... He was born in South Chicago and raised in Hammond... Hence the setting of his most famous work In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash ... This is where the work where A Christmas Story comes from (a short story in that work). That is why a few years a go I was confused in seeing a Shepherd movie resembling A Christmas Story that had a hilarious scene set on Cedar Lake... Indiana... South of Hammond and a few miles from where I currently live. Jean Shepherd ??? 852023[/snapback] His show "Jean Shepherd's America" on PBS of yore was excellent. The episode on beer was a hoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JinVA Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Was the movie shot in Cleveland? Is that the Cleveland/Ohio connection? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 "Even something as momentous as the Scut Fargus affair, which it came to be known, was pushed out of my mind as I struggled to come up with a way out of the impenetrable BB gun web, in which my mother had me trapped." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Sadly the flagpole-tongue scene was not filmed in Cleveland, but in St. Catherines, Ontario. Some of the movie was filmed in Canada, but the house and the Higbee's/Public Square scenes were filmed here. Those scenes were filmed in April, and snow-making machines were brought in to make it look like the holidays. In fact, Higbee's was a real local department store chain which got bought out by Dillard's in the early 90's. My brother's father in law was the manager of the store where the movie scenes were shot, although not at that time. The store closed about six years ago and has remained vacant ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Years ago my wife and I were cruising around a porn convention in Vegas and came to find out that Scott Schwarz, who played Ralphie's friend "Flick" in the movie, now has a career making porn flicks. He was sitting at a table and autographed a photo of the infamous tongue-stuck-on-flag-pole scene for us. Strange little event. Seeing him there. Not the convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Flanders Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Christmas Story House webpage. 849310[/snapback] Some good stuff on the "trivia" link: Yano Anaya, who played Grover Dill (the toadie), appeared in only two other films but is probably best known as the evil paperboy with the war cry, "Two dollars!" in the 1985 John Cusack comedy, "Better off Dead." Trivia page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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