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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z W, Rudy Glendale, New York Joined: March 29, 2000 Shep fan since: 1963 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 77 W., Greg Toronto, Ontario, Florida Joined: October 16, 2004 Shep fan since: 2002 Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies Guest No: 1337 Comments: What a great, fun site! I was recruited as a Shep fan by Bob Clark's "Christmas Storey" movie. Being an Amateur Radio and Antique Radio fan, Sheps career fits in perfectly with my nostagia for a waning, long-past era. Although I am only 43,and scraped that era, I think of it fondly. The movie and his shows feed my new obsession with purchasing old Tube Radios (I have an RCA 10K1 and 816K which is similar to the radio used in the movie) Was excited to find your link about the ARRL morse code practice tape introduced by Shep. As I read the info, "the light came on" and I realized the familiar voice is one I have listened to often, as I play those practice tapes often! While reading about it on your web site, my excitment grew, as I recited "Hello, this is Jean Sheppard" in my head and suddenly realized what I have had since I was a teenager..... a Morse practice tape narrated by the "same" Jean Sheppard I have come to enjoy and love. What a great revelation! Learning he was a Ham, and I had been listening to Jean all that time, made my day! Thanks! Greg Amateur Radio Staion VA3VFO Wagner, Bill Wittman, Maryland Joined: September 27, 2000 Shep fan since: 1955 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 239 Wagner, William Wittman, Maryland Joined: September 02, 2004 Shep fan since: 1952 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1302 Comments: Shep really had a great influence on me. Driving back to college on Sunday nights and hearing his wonderful tales were a sanity check for me. The sneezing powder, the joy buzzers and all the other stories from his perusals of the Johnson Smith catalogs were wonderful (I still subscribe) . I have a kazoo by my computer - my only musical achievement, thanks to Shep. Wagner, Jack Madison, Connecticut Joined: December 06, 2006 Shep fan since: 1965 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1850 Comments: I listened to Shep on my "transitor" radio every night growing up in NJ. I got to see him many times at his local appearances in NJ locations, Union Jr College and other local schools. Also met him at a few book signings and have his autographed copy of "In God We Trust" that I had him sign at the Toms River book store. Walck, Roger Wilmington, Delaware Joined: October 21, 2000 Shep fan since: 1952 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 269 walker (nee pearson), edith gig harbor, Washington Joined: January 09, 2006 Shep fan since: 1938 Discovered Shep: Read one of his books Guest No: 1601 Comments: i, edith (nee pearson) walker, attended hammond high the same time j. shepherd was there. i graduated a year before he did. any contact from someone i knew at hammond high, it would be fun to hear from you. e-mail, oscaredie@aol.com Walsh, Tom Hightstown, New Jersey Joined: April 14, 2000 Shep fan since: 1956 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 87 Walsh, Thomas H. Hightstown, New Jersey Joined: August 18, 2000 Shep fan since: 1957 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 160 Walters, Dan Chattanooga, Tennessee Joined: April 11, 2001 Shep fan since: 1976 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 533 Walton, Scott Rock Hill, South Carolina Joined: November 24, 2000 Shep fan since: 1966 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 306 Walton, Lee Lawrenceville,, New Jersey Joined: July 16, 2001 Shep fan since: 1956 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 643 Walton, Bob Wyckoff, New Jersey Joined: March 26, 2006 Shep fan since: 1957 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1627 Comments: My older cousin, Trudi, a college student, was a Shep fan. She would stop by from time to time to visit with my mother. She introduced me to Shep, and I began to listen every chance I got. Shep's show helped me get through life with a sense of humor. Like Shep, I also played the BBb Sousaphone in HS, spent some time in the military and love anything about automobiles. He may also be the reason my students know me as a story teller. One of my favorite memories of Shep was the only time I saw him in person. He did a show at Montclair State College, probably around 1967. I had an aisle seat out of which I literally fell and rolled down the aisle. Needless to say, my date was mortified, but it was worth it. My best friend, Paul, who worked at his college radio station, WFDU, actually interviewed Shep at Fairleigh Dickinson University when he came to do a show, probably about 1966. Thanks for the website. I have never before spent this much time in one site. Excelsior! Wanko, George Wanko Bayonne, New Jersey Joined: July 27, 2000 Shep fan since: 1960 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 146 Wantuch, Dave Spotswood, New Jersey Joined: November 23, 2001 Shep fan since: 1965 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 747 Ward, Nick Torrance, California Joined: July 31, 2003 Shep fan since: 1976 Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies Guest No: 1025 Comments: I have read several of his books but remember most fondly laughing so hard I couldn't stop when seeing Phantom of the Open Hearth. I've continued to look for the video or DVD but as I have found it is not available. Please get this on DVD with extras. I know that it is the basis for Christmas Story and this is better. Ward, John Lansdale, Pennsylvania Joined: March 21, 2016 Shep fan since: 1966 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 2927 Wardlow, Don Charleston,, South Carolina Joined: February 27, 2001 Shep fan since: 1976 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 475 Wardlow, Don charleston, South Carolina Joined: November 27, 2001 Shep fan since: 1976 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 755 Warger, Tom Amherst, Massachusetts Joined: July 27, 2005 Shep fan since: 1968 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1501 Comments: Followed link from Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" page. Hadn't thought much about Shepherd in recent years but listened to him regularly when I was in high school and living within range of WOR. We were living in NY because my father had a college-teaching job there, but the extended family were all in the mid-west. Shepherd was a connection to those roots. I see the same dynamic at work with regard to Garrison Keillor: academic nomads like the "feel" of a story-teller whose theme is "how it is back home." That home doesn't suffer at all from being imagined; we'll never live there. I guess Johnny Carson, too, had that appeal for a lot of people. H. L. Mencken, George Ade, Jean Shepherd, Garrison Keillor... Interesting company. Tom Warger Waring, Worth Summerville, South Carolina Joined: August 29, 2003 Shep fan since: 1965 Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories Guest No: 808 Comments: I was delving through my father's "hidden" stack of Playboys as a kid. After the first few minutes of looking at the pictures, I thumbed through the printed matter and came across Shep. Then I went through the rest of the stack, looking for more. I've never stopped looking for more. Warmington, John Applegate, Oregon Joined: January 30, 2005 Shep fan since: 1990 Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies Guest No: 1427 Warner, Beth Kennebunk, Maine Joined: January 09, 2005 Shep fan since: 1964 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1421 Comments: My father and my sister who is ten years older were both rabid Shep fans. Most evenings when ten fifteen rolled around, Shep's voice along with hysterical laughter from my family listening would drift into my bedroom and keep me awake. I couldn't figure out what they were listening to or what was making them laugh so hysterically. I probably was not more than five or six years old. My mother, a John Gambling Senior and Junior fan never really "got" Shep but she didn't listen to the radio much at night anyway. Looking back I realize she was probably too tried from doing ironing for three girls and other housework. Her evening entertainment ended early and consisted of the Newark Evening News. (I grew up in the "most urbanized state in the union" i.e. NJ) By the time I hit high school I listened to Shep but not on the kitchen radio. I had this funky brand new Toshiba transistor radio, in a brown leather case that I could prop up next to my ear. This allowed me to tune in while I lay in my bed in the dark. Sometimes when I hadn't gotten through my homework I would listen to Shep on my green Zenith clock radio on my desk in my room. Once in a great while my dad and I listened to him together, usually on Saturday nights when Shep broadcast from the Limelight. Speaking of the Limelight, when Shep's book came out "In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash" I purchased my own copy and went to a book signing event Shep held one Saturday afternoon at the Limelight. There must've been at least a hundred or more adolescent boys there. I stood patiently in line and when Shep saw me he grabbed my book and signed it "To Beth....a girl!" I was the only girl at the signing. I kept that book and loaned it out to different people over the years but much to my chagrin, it mysteriously disappeared back in the late seventies/early nineteen eighties. At first I thought it was just misplaced but after repeated hunts I realized that it was really and truly gone and that I would never locate its whereabouts. I have been enjoying listening to recordings of Shep that an old moldy also a Shep fan friend sent to me last year. When the Red Sox won this year I found Shep's conclusions about being a fan of a losing team delightful and can really see his dad booing the Yankees and Lou Gehrig in particular until Gehrig hit those balls that made Shep's dad stop booing. EXCELSIOR! Beth Warner p.s. sometimes Shep was annoying when he didn't have a good night or a topic of interest but I forgave him and still do to those shows when he resorted to playing the kazoo or other nonsensical stuff. Warshaw Feuerman, Arlene Great Neck, New York Joined: May 15, 2005 Shep fan since: 1956 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1482 Comments: I first heard Shep at my older brother's house when I was about 10 years old. He became that voice in the night weaving wonderful tales. When I was in college I would go to see him at a club in the Village, a fantastic experience. It always seemed to me he never aged or changed. As soon as my kids saw A Christmas Story they were hooked too.I have bought his tapes from Schmid lending them to friends and family, and of course telling them to buy their own! This is a great site. Keep up the good work! Shep lives as long as we hear his voice. Wasserman, R.S. Brooklyn, New York Joined: January 02, 2001 Shep fan since: 1964 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 389