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Keith R. Jones
Amarillo, Texas

Joined: November 25, 2000

Shep fan since: 1975
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 309

John Grzinich
Austin, Texas

Joined: February 27, 2000

Shep fan since: 1958
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 22

Dan Potter
Austin, Texas

Joined: June 06, 2000

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 102

Michael Goldman
Austin, Texas

Joined: December 23, 2000

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 360

Kathleen Evans
Austin, Texas

Joined: February 21, 2001

Shep fan since: 2001
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 455

kevin klauber
austin, Texas

Joined: May 12, 2003

Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 968

Comments:
Great site. I have alwsy been a big fan. I was an abused child so going to bed and listening to Shep alwys made things a great deal easier. He would take my pain away and I loved the little bit of peace I could get falling asleep. Saw Shep once at Carnagie Hall with my mom( who turned me on to Shep) and it was the one thing that I remeber doing with my mom that was enjoyable. I snuck out on my mom that night and smoked a joint in the hallways at Carnagie hall ! Bought All Ohters ....a long time ago,had to amke a vist to the mysterious Greenwhich Village! I felt so cool that a kid form Queens could "get it." See ya.

Alan Kalish
Austin, Texas

Joined: December 05, 2003

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1110

Comments:
My first recollection of Shep is from around 1965, when my family was driving back from Wisconsin to our home in New Jersey. It was late at night and my sister and I were in the back seat of our 1963 Rambler American (a car of distinction). My sister was sound asleep, but I wasn't giving up so easily. My dad was driving and he turned on the radio looking for something to keep him alert. He found WOR, where we caught Shep in his prime. He was telling about Army war games, with planes simulating bombing runs by dropping bags of flour on the troops. My parents heard me chuckling in the dark, and they both knew that Shep had taken another into his fold. I was a loyal listener, and went to bed with the radio on each night, first to hear Shep and maybe also to listen to Barry Farber, whose show followed Shep's. You never new what you would hear with Shep, but he shared a world of experiences. His stories were rich and detailed, with characters behaving in funny but believable ways. My favorites were stories of the steel mill, growing up in Indiana, the being in the signal corps, but he had the ability to make any topic fascinating. Because I was local to New York I had the pleasure of attending some of his live performances (at NCE (now NJIT), at Princeton University, in Clinton, in Red Bank, and at Carnagie Hall in New York. Every show was a gem. Shep went off the air in 1977, and his absence is felt.

Glenn Heffernan
Austin, Texas

Joined: June 04, 2006

Shep fan since: 1956
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1672

Comments:
My Dad was a huge Shep fan. He really like the stories about the Army. He said they were similar to somethings that he had experienced in WWII. We would listen together. Although we lived in NYC we never did get to see Shep live in the VIllage. I think my Dad just didn't want to go to the Village and sit in a coffeehouse with a bunch of beatniks! Ironically my Uncle had his office on the same block as Shep's apartment and say routinely. I remember reading In God We Trust and A Ferrari in The Bedroom. I think I might still have them. I once saw Shep in a parade in the Village. I think he was the MC for the start of a Cannonball Rally with the guys from Car & Driver magazine when it was still owned by the original Ziff Davis Publications and had a big office on Park Avenue South. Shep was a car nut. I remember he was describing each entry in detail as they past the float that he was on. It was cool. I miss Shep ... I miss listening to him with my Dad .... I bet that they have meet in Heaven. Flick lives and Excelsior you Fatheads! Glenn PS A kid I went to Brooklyn Tech High School with craved FL for Flick Lives in his drafting desk at school ... he got caught by a teacher that didn't like what Shep represented ... he had to hand sand and varnish 36 drafting stations ... it took all of the school year! I wonder what happened to that kid.

Tony Aterno
Austin, Texas

Joined: May 14, 2008

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 2758

Comments:
He was the consummate wordsmith and storyteller. I especially remember a story about a truckload of banana oil that tipped over and gushed down the street. I was rolling over in laughter. Good memories.

Tom Candalino
Bedford, Texas

Joined: December 13, 2004

Shep fan since: 1966
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1380

Comments:
Only man who could turn a 10 minute story into 3 hours and make each moment entertaining. We miss him

Mike Procter
Bells, Texas

Joined: December 25, 2006

Shep fan since: 1968
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 1879

Comments:
I used to steal my ol' man's playboy magazines and look at the pictures, doing what young boys do. One time, I happened to start reading his short story (the one about going to the prom and getting drunk) and found myself laughing out loud. I went to school the next day and found a couple of his books and checked them out. I have read his books off and on ever since, and I'm 54 yrs. old now.

Hiram Brown
Carrollton, Texas

Joined: December 11, 2003

Shep fan since: 1982
Discovered Shep: Saw his TV show
Guest No: 1131

Comments:
Sitting alone in a budget hotel on business in Lafayette Louisana at age 24 in 1982: I had so much fun that I have searched for a copy of "The Great American Forth of July and Other Disasters." every year since. If I don't find a bootleg copy somehow I may start writing begging letters to WGBH. Thanks so much for this wonderful web site. My day has been much richer because of your work here.

Mark Roman
Carrollton, Texas

Joined: February 18, 2005

Shep fan since: 1966
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1437

Comments:
Shep was part of my growing up. I remember when he came across Flick and stated "Flick Lives"

George Csahanin
Crowley, Texas

Joined: August 16, 2017

Shep fan since: 1962
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 2942

Jim Conerty
Dallas, Texas

Joined: August 28, 2003

Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 805

Jim Conerty
Dallas, Texas

Joined: May 22, 2004

Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1253

Comments:
Jean Shepherd was an integral part of growing up in New York City if you were a male kid. I can't recall how many Saturday night dates were spent as I sat in the car with my latest flame listening to Jean spin his tales from the Limelight. My most memarable Shepherd show was in December, 1967. I was driving across ice covered roads and the Verazzano Narrows Bridge. As my little Corvair skidded and fishtailed any panic attacks that I had were quickly subdued as Jean told the story of being a messenger in the winter time in an Indiana steel mill. His story of almost being blown into Lake Michigan made the Narrows crossing much easier to endure.

Jennie Taliaferro
Dallas, Texas

Joined: December 24, 2004

Shep fan since: 1982
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1400

Comments:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I've been loving "A Christmas Story," Ralphie and Flick for 22 years!

Emma PeelDallas
Dallas, Texas

Joined: December 31, 2006

Shep fan since: 1974
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1887

Comments:
How I wish his TV shows would be released as DVD's. I bought a copy of Phantom of the Open Hearth on e-Bay, and it's as hilarious and wonderful as I remembered...but the quality is so poor. A whole generation has missed out on how funny and brilliant Jean Shepherd was.

Chris Salerno
Dallas, Texas

Joined: January 16, 2009

Shep fan since: 1967
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 2827

Comments:
Looking back sometimes I think I imagined it all, and the details get fuzzy. But the MP3 file brought it all back. Thanks for validating my memories. I discovered the Saturday night broadcasts from the Limelight, and I was so disappointed that it was not there when I returned to the scene of the crime in 2002. His memory lives on. Flick lives.

Dale Cooper
Fort Worth, Texas

Joined: December 31, 2000

Shep fan since: 1962
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 382

Ed Kramer
Fort Worth, Texas

Joined: November 23, 2001

Shep fan since: 1957
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 746

Michael Winslow
Fort Worth, Texas

Joined: November 26, 2006

Shep fan since: 1983
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1835

Comments:
Thanks for the Shep website. It's way cool - he would be honored.

Henry Herge
Frisco, Texas

Joined: September 04, 2015

Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 2914

Comments:
Shep-A-Day is great.

Vicky Geiger
Galveston, Texas

Joined: April 17, 2000

Shep fan since: 2000
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 89

kat Joel
Galveston, Texas

Joined: March 14, 2003

Shep fan since: 1971
Discovered Shep: Saw his TV show
Guest No: 912

Comments:
Mr. Shepherd was an incredible personality, and way before his time. His insight to humanity, and "the way we are" was portrayed so vividly.... i've missed him. Hoping when i return home for a visit this spring, i'll get a chance to see the new center. Congratulations, Hammond! You're recognizing an important member of your history! And, thanx Mommy Mary, for sharing this site with me. All my best, kat

Tom Millhollon
Granbury, Texas

Joined: December 12, 2004

Shep fan since: 1978
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 1377

Comments:
Enjoyed your work in the past and look forward to whatever is next.

Jeanette Burke
Houston, Texas

Joined: March 11, 2000

Shep fan since: 1949
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 53

Dom Nardo
Houston, Texas

Joined: June 17, 2001

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 609

Mark Weisberg
Houston, Texas

Joined: August 24, 2003

Shep fan since: 1972
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 800

Comments:
Thank G-D NY station WOR was still a station with the programming of real talent, versus the dreadful call-in shows that have taken over AM radio. I used to listen to Shep from 10-11 PM on weeknights through my Radio Shack Crystal Radio, screen window antenna and baseboard heater ground. I read all of his books (with the exception of The America of George Ade - my loss) and celebrated each PBS special and commercial movie. Nobody really comes close to the style and bite of Jean Shepherd in his prime.

Kenneth Goodwin
Houston, Texas

Joined: July 28, 2004

Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1282

Comments:
I remember my grandmother listening to Shepherd late at night although my interest wasn't 'directed' until I read the Playboy articiles. Being an amateur radio operator (then K1ONW now K5RG) always biased me towards other hams like Goldwater and Shepherd. Next month I take a trip to Sanibel Island. Any Shepherd memorials?

Dean Eppler
Houston, Texas

Joined: November 11, 2004

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1340

Comments:
I like to think of Shep's fans as "ghosts within the machine"... I have 2 siblings that are very different from me, doing different work (I test space suits for NASA, among other things), having different political views (I'm the black sheep sort-of conservative) but each of us has a core sense of dedicated honesty and intolerance of official buffoonery that I know comes right from Shep, and the times we all spent listening to him on WOR when we grew up in NJ. Every once and a while, I find someone else who has a similar mindset, and a hearty, "Excelsior, you fathead!" always shows those folks to be another ghost among the unwashed. Shep, and Flick Lives, and I think will always! EXCELSIOR!

larkin etheridge
houston, Texas

Joined: November 06, 2005

Shep fan since: 1978
Discovered Shep: Saw his TV show
Guest No: 1543

Comments:
My VHS copy of Great American 4th of July finally died and I want a dvd copy of it. I see from your site WGBH has it and it is not available. I have contacted them by email.

Eric Nabstedt, Non-M.D., Night Person
Houston (for now), Texas

Joined: March 03, 2000

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 30

John Meehan
Oak Ridge North, Texas

Joined: June 17, 2003

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 986

Comments:
Began listening on WETA FM in Washington, DC. My old lady skipped so it was a way of staying grounded after the kids were in bed. I enjoyed his army stories, I have similar recollections.

Vic Raymond
Pampa, Texas

Joined: February 14, 2001

Shep fan since: 1952
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 441

Dr. Ronald Ternosky
Plano, Texas

Joined: January 29, 2001

Shep fan since: 1956
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 424

David C. Trauth
Plano, Texas

Joined: August 16, 2004

Shep fan since: 1958
Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories
Guest No: 1291

Comments:
I spent a number of entertaining nights listening to Jean on WOR in New York. My favorite story was his discription of a woman getting on a bus in NYC, proceding to strip nude,then getting dressed again as if nothing had occurred. His discriptions were unparalleled, and never will be equalled. In short he was the best story teller of all time. If anyone deserves to be in the "Radio Hall Of Fame," it should be Jean Shepherd!! If anyone remembers this favorite, and knows where a copy of the same may obtained, please let me know. As a retired Airline Captain, I can remember with fondness, the many nights of enjoyment listening to Jean, we have sadly lost a great in humor and radio.

william whitty
plano, Texas

Joined: December 06, 2007

Shep fan since: 2003
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 2644

Comments:
Just discovering all the other things this man did other than narrate my favorite Christmas movie.

Ed Vanh Holland
Quitman, Texas

Joined: March 24, 2005

Shep fan since: 1954
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1455

Comments:
Don't hold me to the discovery year, but it was when he first came to NY. He was on WOR, Saturday afternoon.Oner of the early stories I recall was about collecting tinfoil in the gutter. I remember the Wanamaker cabbage soup deal, the I,Libertine fiasco, hurling invectives, the Army stories about Gasser and Zinsmeister. I saw him several times live, once in the bar in Paterson, N.J. called the Amber Lantern. I also saw him at Fairleigh Dickinson College where he was superb

Dan Spencer
San Antonio, Texas

Joined: November 25, 2000

Shep fan since: 1979
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 308

Gordon J. Bishop
San Antonio, Texas

Joined: September 23, 2001

Shep fan since: 1969
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 695

Kuo Yen Ng
San Antonio, Texas

Joined: April 29, 2004

Shep fan since: 1950
Discovered Shep: Read one of his books
Guest No: 858

Comments:
When the earth was young, I happened to buy "In God We Trust...", probably because of the religious reference.I'm sorry that I never heard, or knew of, Jean Shepherd's radio programs. San Antonio is hicksville, the sticks, we were the last to get sliced bread. On my crystal set, I'd regale myself with One Man's Family and Henry Aldrich and Stella Dallas. "The Christmas Story" came. It was one of few "perfect" movies, where the beginning, the middle and the end were all perfect, no weak spots, the characters were real to me. That includes Music Man with Robert Preston, A River Runs Through It, Maltese Falcon (Sidney Greenstreet's granddaughter lives here in San Antonio), African Queen. Then computers were invented by Al Gore and I discovered that Jean Shepherd was no longer with us. Archy and Mehitabel came in there somewhere. Just discovered your fine site this morning and will spend more time later checking it out. It's lunch time and I'm going to indulge in a chopped barbecue in a bun.

Gilder Anne McCarroll
San Antonio, Texas

Joined: December 04, 2004

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 1369

Comments:
Can't remember what year I "discovered Shep". I was one of those "radio under the pillow" listeners of the early 70's. Probably didn't understand half of Shep's jokes, as I was a naive teen. Looking forward to tuning in Schmidco's web re-broadcasts.

James Shimala
Spring, Texas

Joined: October 23, 2006

Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep: Read one of his books
Guest No: 1792

Comments:
I now have lived half of my life in Spring, Tx. and the first half in Whiting, Ind. Shep always brings back memories of my youth in Indiana. I'll never trade them.

George Rowe
Tomball, Texas

Joined: July 05, 2008

Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep: On the Radio
Guest No: 2764

Comments:
Listened to Shep as a kid, have books, enjoyed PBS work, and movies.

JF Turner
Waco, Texas

Joined: September 30, 2000

Shep fan since: 1962
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 241

Marc Bukowski
Wichita Falls, Texas

Joined: December 26, 2006

Shep fan since: 1993
Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1883

Comments:
Growing up in Hammond - attending Harding Elementary School...I remember seeing the old (1st) school (still standing but vacant) standing and being torn down. Downtown Hammond was in its dwindling years. A Christmas Story really hit home since I also lived in Hessville. Although I long for my childhood memories I also long for a time I was not part...that of A Christmas Story. Funny, it actually bothered me when I read that Shep's Dad left his Mother. To me, McGavin and Dillon were just like my parents. Hammond is home but it is a long way from the Hammond I grew up in. Long live "A Christmas Story"!

"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