Holiday Greetings from the Blog - Part 2

 

Various movies are typically shown in this season such as "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) and the more recent "A Christmas Story" (1983).* The latter is based on a compilation of stories told on the radio by raconteur Jean Shepherd who broadcast on WOR in New York from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. The signal reached quite far and he had followers throughout the Northeast and Midwest. One of the more famous episodes in "A Christmas Story" was about a boy who supposedly got his tongue stuck to a lamppost. The movie resets the story in the 1940s in Cleveland although the original radio story would have taken place in the late 1920s in Hammond, Indiana where a statue of the boy stuck to the pole has been built.**

Below is the original radio story:

Part 1

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPekoGPGd0

Part 2

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-anf8u-aE

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*https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/

**https://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/flicks-triple-dog-dare/