Posted on 12/15/2005 6:04:54 PM PST by presidio9
I grew up in the late 30s and 40s and folks, that's the way it really was! I'll never forget my Granddad's unending war with the coal furnace, kids getting tongues stuck on metallic objects, the guerilla battles with bullies to and from school and my beloved Red Ryder BB gun(s) -- I owned several. I still have both eyes too and I've owned lots of real guns since.
Shepherd remembered the era with amazing detail and totally captured the mood of a time I remember with great longing and fondness.
No it was his other friend, Schwartz.... I always found it funny that the actor who played Flik was named Schwartz in real life.
But I never figured out why he didn't tell his mom that the bully taught him the F - - - word.
XM radios Opie and Anthony had that guy Flick and the little brother of the star on the other day.....funny stuff.
I dont know that I would agree with you about the language...we did not grow up in a bubble during that time...my dad had pretty coarse language, language he picked after 5yrs in the military, and with his buddies in WW11...my mom says, often on a Saturday afternoon, he would take me and my brother into the bedroom, and sing songs to us, as a form of cheap entertainment...mom always wonders if we remember those songs, as she tells us they were quite vulgar...
is that you in that pic??
Yeesh John Kerry looked allot like a girl when he was younger.
Soylent Green!! When my husband and I were in New York City near Rockefeller Center, the crowds were unbelieveable. In fact, at one point, we were stuck and could not go forward or backward....My husband has a "unique" sense of humor and yelled out, "Soylent Green is PEOPLE"...and all the people our age turned and started laughing out loud!
It was great to see New Yorkers with a sense of humor!
Butbutbut... I thought gay cowboys were a novelty.
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I stand corrected! I can't believe after all of the times I have seen it that I would forget!
Incidently, the real "Flick" was a childhood friend of Sheppard's. He was killed in WWII. Bomber pilot.
I grew up in the 50's and I too thought the movie captured the flavor of the time just about perfectly.
Thats ok...I have seen it so many times myself, and I had to stop and try to remember exactly who Ralphie accused...
I assume you mean the vulgar language used in that period. Boys used that language all the time. I never heard girls swear. Perhaps you were a girl.
People used to tell me that I should get my oldest daughter into movies or advertisements, but she ended up being an American record holder in swimming.
So far no one has mentioned ( I guess no one saw it) that only a few years after the Christmas Story movie, the tragic Challenger space launch (in '87?) had in its audience , live at the event, among others, Peter Billingsley, whose face was as delighted as everyone else's watching Challenger go up, and horribly stricken as he watched the Challenger blow up/ anyone else remember seeing this and identifying him as someone there in the audience?
For those of who did grow up in the 50s, this movie is just so familiar...and it takes place in the midwest, Indiana, I think...I grew up in Chicago...so all the snow, all the snowsuits, and hats, and galoshes, and scarves and mittens were normal outdoor gear for us during the long cold midwestern winters...
When I see that house where Ralphie lived, I think to myself, I could have lived in that house, it was so familiar looking...
I DOUBLE-DOG dare you to stick your tounge there...I triple-dare you!
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