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Ben Polcover
Akron, Ohio

Joined: April 24, 2006

Shep fan since: 1962
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1659

Comments:
In bed with the light out I loved to listen to Shep spin his fabulous tales and recollections and his so accurate view of life and people. I got the opportunity to get my copy of "In God We Trust ...." autographed in The Limelight. There was a long line and people kept cutting in line ahead of me. Eventually I was one of the last on line. So when we got up to Shep (about 3or4 of us) he unwound from the hours of book signing and spent about 30 minutes rapping with us. This was quite a reward for ending up in the back of the line.

Jordan Rothkopf
Beachwood, Ohio

Joined: October 16, 2003

Shep fan since: 1962
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1072

Comments:
I am not exactly sure of the year. It was around 1962. Used to listen on WOR every night. Couple of days ago my brother who lives in Florida called up and said you have got to listen to something. He then played the theme song. Flashback city. I have just begun to look at this site and another, www.flicklives.com. The Christmas story was shot in Cleveland, I believe since I moved here in 1979. I am sure I will write gain.

Ron Inscho
Bucyrus, Ohio

Joined: April 12, 2001

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 535

Jimmy Thompson
Centerville, Ohio

Joined: January 08, 2001

Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 396

Brian Ciesko
Cincinnait, Ohio

Joined: August 13, 2003

Shep fan since: 1969
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 1038

Comments:
While home sick from school one day, I became a typically bored 12-year old boy and found myself disrespectfully bumbling around in my father's closet. I didn't know what I expected to find because I knew what all his clothes looked like; I mean, he wore them every day so. . . But then, oh treasure of near-teenagehood, I found his stack of old Playboys from the 60's. Wow! Naked ladies! While that particular thrill has never really ebbed, I remember seeing a very curiously titled story, "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories". Up until that point I hadn't realized that there was anything funny about the printed word that existed outside of comic books and Mad magazine. And this guy, Jean Shepherd, his writing was so hilarious, I laughed out loud while reading. Along with J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon, Shep is probably one of the reasons I slipped through the streams and swam to the writer's shore, finding myself in a home I didn't know I had.

Grant Smyrlakis
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: September 13, 2000

Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 224

John Harper
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: December 24, 2000

Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 363

Gary S.
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: December 25, 2000

Shep fan since: 1975
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 365

Dan Dougherty
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: October 18, 2001

Shep fan since: 1949
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 715

george smed
cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: March 31, 2003

Shep fan since: 1976
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 931

Comments:
I would catch his show in Cincinnati on radio, saw Christmas Story, read the books, researched my old Playboy's, found some of his readings on cassette, then here I am. Can't put him down. Then out of the blue went to Jean Shepherd dot com. Tanks,Spot.

Brent Reider
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: December 27, 2003

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1171

Comments:
I have been involved in broadcast engineering for 33 years. My ham call is WA8SLJ. What fun to come across this site. I had an "NPR Driveway Moment" recently when All Things Considered ran a tape of Shep's experience at a march in Washington DC.

George Roden
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: April 15, 2005

Shep fan since: 1956
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1462

Comments:
Shep lives - thanks to the internet. It's the new home of the "night people". When I was about seven my father thought that I should have a crystal set - a simple receiving device without electrical power that was always "on". I soon learned to set the dail for WOR's signal and would fall asleep wearing the headphones. From some time in 1956 until I left Jersey for college in 1967 I seldom missed a show. He spoke at my high school where I got his signature on my copy of "In God We Trust". And, I was at Union College on "King Levinsky Day" when Shep received a pair of boxing gloves (for those of you who remember that show). I have lived in Cincinnati for years and now recall the stories he told about his life here - like the fish out and his walking across the Ohio River to go to work. I even went to the University of Cincinnati (where he met his first wife). I still miss Shep reading "Casey at the Bat" on opening day. There's nothing like Shep. Remember to keep your knees loose and your first baseman's mitt well oiled.

Robert Stout
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: August 08, 2005

Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1506

Comments:
Yep, my friends, I,too, discovered Shep via a transistor radio given to me as a Christmas present in '63. Yep, it was a late night of "tuning" in surreptiously and I caught this story being told about a "string collector" in a unique and memorable way. I was forever "hooked". 90% of my best pals through high school and college were fans of Shep and even my wife had to "sign on" that this would be a part of my life...even ahead of her! I was fortunate to grow up in New Jersey, got his autograph twice ('cause I lost the first). The second was in a copy of "Wanda Hickey...". I went with my best Shep buddy (2 guys, one book. Go figure!). Me being Rob and my freind Bob, Shep, in typical fashion, signed it, "To Chet and Don, Excelsior! 1902, Jean Shepherd". I attended college close to Princeton (Unfortunately for me, not PU) and caught his annual show several times. I am still a tolerably good jew's harp player and have led a Boy Scout "Kazoo Brigade" (as an adult!) at a couple functions in Cincinnati, playing "The Bear Missed the Train" (with vocal refrain!) among others (sorry, not "Boodle Am Shake". Not yet!). Plenty more memories but for now, 'nuff said. Excelisor and keep yer knees loose, gang!

Sue Lumb
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: November 27, 2005

Shep fan since: 1948
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1517

Peter Steele
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: February 13, 2006

Shep fan since: 1956
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1633

Comments:
I first discovered Shep at 14 in Connecticut while trolling with a floor model multiband radio. Cattching Long John and Shep was a thrill. Later I followwd him from Massachuisetts and New Jersey as I moved and married He was the Mark Twain and Sholom Aleichem, and of my life. At 63, I still miss him

Dave Spickard
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: August 19, 2007

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 2402

Comments:
Need 1/2" VHS Copy of Phantom of the open hearth to borrow, copy, and return. Thanks

Neil Sharrow
Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined: January 01, 2025

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: JUNK
Guest No: 3007

Comments:
Having just reread "In God We Trust," I did a Wikipedia search for "Edifice complex," a well-known term that Shep himself may have invented for the Ludlow Kissel/Dago Bomb story. To my surprise, he was not mentioned, even in the "popular culture" reference section! I have now edited the Wikipedia entry to give Shep proper recognition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edifice_complex

Jan Feuerstein
Cleveland, Ohio

Joined: October 09, 2000

Shep fan since: 1976
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 253

Don Blesse
Cleveland, Ohio

Joined: September 23, 2003

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 827

Comments:
Back in 8th grade I heard a couple of friends talking about this guy on the radio named Jean Shepherd. Just figured he was another DJ. Then a couple of weeks later, I happened by WOR and was instantly hooked by a story about a guy that made the electric meter run backwards. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Shepherd... once at a book signing around 1970 and again in the mid-90's when he was a guest at the radio station I work at. Thanks for all the great things we all saw on the radio.

Jonathan Jay Gibian
Cleveland, Ohio

Joined: April 26, 2003

Shep fan since: 1959
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 955

Comments:
I was a very young radio announcer when I "discovered" Shepherd one night on my car radio. I was instantly hooked. I was a morning man, meaning it was my chore to begin the day's programming by opening the station at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. Nevertheless, I would either remain up late at night or set an alarm to awaken me in time to get into my car and drive around, searching for a good signal to hear his broadcasts (about 10p or 11p if I remember correctly). WOR was sort of hard to get, especially when I was working at central Ohio radio stations, so I usually found a spot on the top of rather steep hills where I could park and receive a good signal from WOR. The man often created a sort of "natural high" for me with the laughter he prompted. To this day, I have never heard another radio personality do anything that even comes close to what Shepherd routinely managed. I miss very much his genius and I miss very much the laughter he brought into my life.

Greg Douglas
Cleveland, Ohio

Joined: August 16, 2004

Shep fan since: 1984
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1290

Comments:
The Movie - ACS - introduced us to Shep. My wife worked for and at the now defunct Higbees Dept. Store back in the '80s and we had the privlege of watching them shoot alll the dept. in-store scenes as well as the parade shots. In fact, if you watch the opening pan-down of Higbee's at the beginning of the movie, you'll see a us standing at her office window.

Joe Mosbrook
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Joined: December 03, 2005

Shep fan since: 1952
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1548

Comments:
About the time I was graduating from high school, we discovered this unusual late-night program on KYW in Philadelphia. As I started college, we went to the Town Room of the Penn Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia to watch Shepherd do his show. When he moved to WLW, we went through all sorts of gyrations trying to pull in the distant signal. But, after he went to WOR, we got his program loud and clear and even made pilgrimages to the WOR transmitter in Carteret, New Jersey, to visit with him and watch and listen as he was doing the all-night show. He was one of America's great humorists. The closest thing we have today is Garrison Keelor.

David H. Socolov
Columbus, Ohio

Joined: June 01, 2001

Shep fan since: 1973
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 591

Veronica Jefferson
Columbus, Ohio

Joined: September 20, 2001

Shep fan since: 2001
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 679

Sue Wilgus
Columbus, Ohio

Joined: October 04, 2004

Shep fan since: 1959
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1327

Comments:
There is so much I had forgotten that this site has brought back. Thanks.

Shirley Holdren
Columbus, Ohio

Joined: May 19, 2007

Shep fan since: 2003
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 2044

Comments:
me my sister like bb guns

Lew Hann
Dayton, Ohio

Joined: May 07, 2000

Shep fan since: 1955
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 188

Hal Davis
Dayton, Ohio

Joined: September 02, 2004

Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1301

Comments:
The search phrase "sinful Street" pulled up this marvelous site. A Jean Shepherd archive on the Web. Vocal ephemera preserved. Hallaloooo. Collectors Choice records has reissued on CD two of his LPs, including "Foibles." Long may he wave. Paul Krassner of The Realist interviewed Theodore Sturgeon about the "I Libertine" hoax

Buster Stronghart
Delaware, Ohio

Joined: July 14, 2002

Shep fan since: 1957
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 774

Frank Duvall
Fairborn, Ohio

Joined: November 22, 2007

Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep: Saw his TV show
Guest No: 2636

Comments:
Jean Shepherds America on PBS. I truly loved every every episode. When his Christmas story came out, I really liked it also(every christmas at least twice) When he died in '99, I was saddened, because America had lost another of their comedic geniuses.

Tom Ryan
Gahanna, Ohio

Joined: March 20, 2000

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 66

Robert Joseph Borders V
Gallipolis, Ohio

Joined: June 21, 2007

Shep fan since: 2003
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 2216

Comments:
I wanted the BB gun that Ralphie got in the movie.

David Claytor
Hartville, Ohio

Joined: October 15, 2000

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 261

H. Steven Lawrence
Hudson, Ohio

Joined: December 08, 2000

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 333

Bob Clancy
Hudson, Ohio

Joined: November 23, 2007

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep: Saw his TV show
Guest No: 2637

Comments:
Jean Shepard's America was a classic. The best show on TV. Also, The Great American Dream Machine. I also read some of his short stories in Playboy. And, of course, loved his classic Christmas Story. From my infatuation with Shepard's storytelling technique, I hired him in 1992 to record a series of radio commercials for a local bread company called Millbrook Bread. I had the opportunity to meet with him and record him in Florida and in Cleveland. In Florida, after one of our recording sessions, we went to dinner and he regaled us with stories from his NY days. How he launched the career of a little known Village painter named Leroy Nieman. According to Shep, he took Nieman on the back of his motorcycle to Yankee Stadium, a place Nieman had never seen. He was awestruck. Shep told him: "This is the American cathedral. Paint this." Shep also told stories about meeting Roger Maris during his famous home run streak in '61. Shepard was playing a charity game in Yankee Stadium before a Yankee game -- the press against old timers or some such contest. Shepard hit a ball to the outfield which rolled to the wall. He legged out a triple and scored on a sacrifice by the next batter. When he made his way into the dugout, a voice from down the bench said: "Nice hit, fella." Shepard looked down the pine and saw Maris sitting at the end. "Roger Maris, told me, 'Nice hit'! Can you imagine, Roger Maris!" Our waiter was quietly listening to these stories and after refilling Shep's water glass, he leaned over and asked -- "Say mister, who are you?" Without missing a beat, Shep turned to him and barked: "Who am I? Who am I? I'm one tough son of a bitch, that's who I am." I've got other stories about Shepard but that will have to come later...

William F Chapman
Lyndhurst (Cleveland), Ohio

Joined: May 15, 2003

Shep fan since: 1980
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 971

Comments:
First discovered Shep as the writer of A Christmas Story, The year of which I'm not sure. Then saw him on TV.

Steve Meyer
Marietta, Ohio

Joined: December 23, 2000

Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 357

Brian Brumfield
Marysville, Ohio

Joined: December 19, 2006

Shep fan since: 1983
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1870

Comments:
As a teen in 1983, I was too young to have listened to Shep in his glory days, but A Christmas Story was a seed of comprehension of Shep that sadly, and to my shame, did not germinate until a day in 1999 when I heard that he had died -- I was on a business trip, listening to the radio -- I had to pull the car over and listen in horror as I realized what had happened. I bought 'In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash' that week. I have a knack for discovering brilliant things after they are gone or nearly gone ... I never watched a single episode of Seinfeld until the last season. What can you say about that?? RAS ... Retarded Appreciation Syndrome? Shep was an amazing combination of characters and characteristics that were in the 1950's-1970's and even today, not definable in terms that could possibly do his genius justice. Excelsior, Shep! Excelsior.

Gary Gary Liebisch
Milford, Ohio

Joined: May 07, 2000

Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 191

patty graham
millersburg, Ohio

Joined: February 10, 2005

Shep fan since: 1955
Discovered Shep: Read one of his books
Guest No: 1435

Comments:
I HAVE A OKEH LAUGHING RECORD MY MOM LET US PLAY AS CHILDREN. I WAS TRYING TO GET A BETTER RECORDING SO I COULD PUT IT ON A CD THIS RECORD IS REALLY OLD. IT BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES I COULDN'T BELEAVE MY EYES WHEN I SAW IT ON YOUR WEB SIGHT. DO YOU KNOW IF THERE IS A WAY TO GET A BETTER COPY OF THIS? THANKS PATTY

Todd & Mistie McGuire
Millfield, Ohio

Joined: December 24, 2004

Shep fan since: 1990
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1401

Comments:
A Christmas Story is a family tradition in our home. My kids and I gather around the TV and watch Ralphie and his Old Man every Christmas Eve...and then some. What a great treat. Now, once we build a new house with a basement, I'll have room for a bar with a special spot reserved for a Major Award Leg Lamp!!

Neil Cotiaux
North Canton, Ohio

Joined: September 24, 2001

Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 697

Matt Smith
North Canton, Ohio

Joined: November 12, 2007

Shep fan since: 1972
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 2633

Comments:
Shep always came up with astute observations on life and living that left you laughing out loud at what he said or how it applied to your life. After years of reading his short stories and enjoying them, I became the first in our family to discover the joys of Bob Clark's film based upon Shep's stories. Based upon stories I had heard from my own father's family growing up in the mid-west this was the closest I came to actually seeing what they went through in their lives. After discovering "A Christmas Story" I made certain that everyone in the family was also aware of it and encouraged them to watch it too. I really miss this type of humor in written form today. Does anyone know it there is anyone even remotely like Shep who is writing today?

Martin Black
North Ridgeville , Ohio

Joined: March 12, 2004

Shep fan since: 1950
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1238

Comments:
I've allways loved Shep I drove truck nights until I retired in '98 when I got my computer I was able to find Shep on Napster and Audio Galaxy and a radio personality ,from NY was playing his old tapes and talked about "Flick Lives" and eventually I found this site ,I talked to him once on a Chicago station WLS I pulled off the road and was able to get in and briefly talk to him ,I loved his insight on the world and what was really going on (his voice is sorely missed in these times were living in 9-11 etc.)He said he was an original "Hippie" I kind of froze up talking to him on the phone but ,I love and miss him he kept me company many a night ,there will never be another.

Cary D. Pall
Toledo, Ohio

Joined: May 07, 2000

Shep fan since: 1961
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 189

Donn Lidington
Wilard, Ohio

Joined: February 14, 2001

Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 443

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975