Posted on 11/10/2022 12:40:11 PM PST by lowbridge
Fragile? It must be Italian — or Oklahoman!
A 50-foot-tall version of the sexy iconic leg lamp featured in the classic film “A Christmas Story” was erected in a small Oklahoma town to honor the artist who inspired it, according to friends and city officials.
The statue boasts a black high heel and a fringed fiberglass lampshade atop a 10-foot crate marked “fragile” in Chickasha’s new downtown park, the oklahoman.com reported.
The delightfully tacky novelty lamp — which was said to have emitted the “soft glow of electric sex” in the 1983 flick — was the brainchild of the late Oklahoma University visual arts teacher Noland James, residents said.
“Noland was so gifted [and] the guy was very humble. Only to his close personal friends would he mention that he built the original leg lamp,” James’ longtime friend Joe Hutmacher told the paper.
Decades ago, James made the quirky lamp with black hose and pumps out of a lady mannequin and set it up in his office at the school. A producer of “The Christmas Story” later became enamored with it and mimicked it in the comedy, Hutmacher told the paper.
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That movie is the best. We watch it every Christmas season. Jean Shepherd’s books (on which ‘A Christmas Story’ is based) are flat-out hilarious.
My BFF has a home on ‘The Main Drag’ in her town and her Leg Lamp goes up in her big Picture Window the day after Thanksgiving. The neighborhood loves it and looks forward to it every year. :)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3601.Jean_Shepherd
NOTAFINGA!
In guess when a country has no more heroes and the old ones are politically incorrect, towns put up trash like this.
I long for the old days.
I think it’s “Buttafinga”
To Lowbridge…thank you. I hope you are beginning to start a trend for posts on FR. Whether you like the leg lamp or not, this post is INTERESTING. FR, with all the fake political news from both sides posted ad nausium has actually gotten kind of boring. Hopefully with the election behind us we will see more posts like yours. Again, Thank you.
Italian art since the crate was “fra-gee-lay”.
A Major Prize!
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