![]() ![]() Some would have been picked up by listeners in the Midwest. Many of Shepherd’s stories began as on-the-air reminiscences before they appeared in Playboy. ![]() After serving with the Army Signal Corps in World War II, the future author began his radio broadcast career at WJOB in Hammond before moving to Cincinnati and New York. ![]() Born on Chicago’s South Side, Shepherd grew up just over the state line in East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, where he graduated from high school in 1939. Though filmed in Cleveland, Ohio - where the original Ralphie Parker residence was sold on eBay in 2004, restored to its 1940 appearance, and turned into a museum - the tale is based on the semi-fictional remembrances of Hoosier writer Jean Shepherd. But every holiday season, we Hoosiers are reminded that the comedy classic A Christmas Story (1983) is set in our fair state. It’s not cold enough in Indiana this year to get your tongue stuck to an icy flagpole.
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