RUTH THOMPSON
CATLETTSBURG, Kentucky |
Joined: March 22, 2004 |
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Shep fan since: 1983
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 839
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Comments:
would love to find his movies Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven Of Bliss and the other movies about Ralphie I love his movie Christmas Story and My Summer Story they are so hard to find and when you do they are going for over 50dollars for them are there any way to get the movie RE release would love to have a collection of them .......
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Jess P
Covington, Kentucky |
Joined: December 25, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1572
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Comments:
I've been a Shep devotee since becoming addicted to 'The Christmas Story' movie. I salute TBS for the 24hr Xmas annual marathon. The Cincinnati Enquirer did a great story on him for the holidays. He actually lived in Covington!!
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Dan Dougherty
Erlanger, Kentucky |
Joined: July 15, 2001 |
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Shep fan since: 1950
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 640
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Matt Forman
Florence, Kentucky |
Joined: December 26, 2006 |
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Shep fan since: 1999
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1886
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Comments:
Great job in "The Christmas Story" wish there were more!
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J. Robert Keeler
Hixson, Kentucky |
Joined: December 30, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1949
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1584
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Comments:
I worked briefly with Shep at WKRC radio in 1949 and listened to him regularly when he had the all night program on WLW sponsored by American Airlines. Somehow I seem to recall that American Airlines sponsored him on all-night radio to use the signal for navigation. Prior to that the clear channel stations would sign-off at about 1:00 A.M. I still enjoy Shep's style and works!!
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Gary & Debbie Marsh
Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
Joined: June 23, 2003 |
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Shep fan since: 1985
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 993
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Comments:
Your site is an answer to the prayers of us who can't get enough of Shep.
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Lee Adams
Louisville, Kentucky |
Joined: December 30, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1971
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 379
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Ed Goldstein
Louisville, Kentucky |
Joined: June 01, 2001 |
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Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 590
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Tommy Borders
Louisville, Kentucky |
Joined: January 07, 2006 |
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Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 1598
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Comments:
My life so closely parallels Ralph Parker that it is scary. "A Christmas Story" is like my autobiography. REALLY
I guess that his gift was (among other things) that he could make many people feel the same.
I was born in 1948 and had three brothers. I was the oldest. My Dad was a constant beer drinker. Mom was the selfless Earth Mother. My brothers ran the gamut. Randy was in there.
We had many used cars, little enough money, Mom cooked meatloaf or Fischer’s Garlic Franks with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes VERY frequently.
A Christmas for us was the real Christmas Story in Louisville, Kentucky. The store was Sears and Roebuck on Broadway and their window was the event of the year. And Christmas shopping inside was just like Ralphie’s Goldblatts. One year I wanted a BB gun and got it (it was a Daisy); along with a Gilbert Chemistry Set, et al. And I leaned about ricochets just like he did. Caught one right in the cheek. (I didn’t where glasses). And I had the animal unleashed scheme with the bully. I was so out of my head, I remember nothing about it. Mom tells me the story of the whole neighborhood trying to drag me off of “Stevie” while I was yelling obscenities.
My Dad was a world famous user of profanities. Wasn’t much “Furnace Fighting” to be done then. Everyone had natural gas by then, though we did have the coal bin. He was a most feared “Automobile Fighter”. My Dad’s cars had once been new, but there was little evidence of this. He had no allegiance to any one brand. We had a Buick, Mercury, Ford, Plymouth, Chrysler, Crosley, Lincoln, Henry J and a Kaiser, and they all required their regular sacrificial knuckle busting, accompanied with much slamming, banging and cursing.
We had TV most of my childhood but I do remember Gunsmoke on the radio by William Conrad who would later narrate my favorite Rocky and Bullwinkle shows.
And if you ever read "County Fair" in the book "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories", I also did the amusment ride Barf-o-Rama with my daughter at the Kentucky State Fair.
I have all of “Sheps” books and A Christmas Story. I would love to get my hands on the the other videos he produced. I caught the one with Matt Dillon once on TV.
Jean Shepherd chronicled my life. I was introduced to him in the pages of Playboy and followed his writing ever since. I had no idea of his success in radio until recently. He makes nostalgia fun and helps me to remember my childhood fondly.
May he forever be getting off incredible hip shots saving the world from “Black Bart”.
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P. Kent Cooper
Louisville (formerly, Glen Ridge, NJ), Kentucky |
Joined: November 16, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 292
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Tony Safina
Shepherdsville, Kentucky |
Joined: February 20, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1978
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1438
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Comments:
Jean Shepherd and Joe Frank are the two most entertaining radio monologists I have ever heard.
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