The Great American Fourth Of July and Other Disasters (1982) Jean Shepherd movie

Jean Shepherd the famous writer of "The Christmas Story", as an older "Ralph," recalls his memory of a particular Fourth of July from his high-school years in Hollman, Indiana. Ralph plays the sousaphone in the high-school band to the instructions of the baton-twirling drum master Wilbur Duckworth. Ralph is grudgingly set up on a blind date, only to find himself in the company of the gorgeous Miss Junior Corn Blossom, who rejects his advances. On the Fourth of July Duckworth causes a power outage by twirling his baton onto an electrical line during a parade; the town drunk Ludlow Kissel sets off an enormous firework that explodes under his own porch; and Ralph's father entertains the neighbors with his annual dramatic display of fireworks. "Ballad of Ludlow Kissel" is sung by Leigh Brown. Produced by Olivia Tappan.

[@Modeltnick]

So few people know that this exists, in the shadow of “A Christmas Story”. It needs to be restored and shown on television for a younger generation!

[@CiardisInferno99]

I think the reason nobody talks about this movie is because it came out before A Christmas Story; when ACS became a cult hit all of Jean Shepherd's subsequent adaptations had to put in references to ACS. This movie was its own goofy thing.

[@benjaminfischer3229]

Perhaps I will show these movies to my children.

[@Modeltnick]

@@benjaminfischer3229 The quality is a little rough since they were probably filmed on 16mm film for television but if people are familiar with “A Christmas Story”, I think people would get a kick at seeing this “sequel” also, especially with young Matt Dillon as Ralphie. I believe this was the last film with James Broderick, who died shortly afterwards. His son is Matthew Broderick, of “Day Off” fame.

[@Auntiehoney217]

Jean shephards Ollie hopnoodles haven of bliss is also great. It's when the family takes their vacation

[@shellylister7006]

@@Auntiehoney217 Jean Shepherd was the best narrator…I just start smiling the minute I hear his voice. I absolutely love Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss. I watched it just the other day and laughed just as much as I did the very first time I watched it. My husband and I even named our first pet Fuzzhead (she was a Torti cat) only to be able to call her in the evening, “Fuuuzzzzhead! Fuuzzzhead! Fuzzhead! Fuzzhead! Fuzzhead!” We would just crack up but of course, everyone that heard us just looked at us as if we were nuttier than we are. Great shows and there is always something in these movies that everyone can relate to! 😁

[@Navygrl58]

Watching this on July 4, 2024! 👍🏼🇺🇸💥 This has become as much of a tradition for me as A Christmas Story! Such a shame they don’t put this on television! RIP Jean Shepard. 🙏

[@RobMacKendrick]

Now that I'm old, these old Jean Shepherd stories go right through me like an arrow. "Gone, gone with the wind." Indeed.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

That's how it feels for me.

[@stvitalkid7981]

My grade 10 English teacher would spend the last ten minutes of most classes reading us classic Jean Shepherd stories, from Playboy, which he kept very tightly and strategically folded so we couldn’t tell exactly which magazine had published these gems.

[@joescambait]

The Parade scene was filmed in Belmont Massachusetts . I was there . My dad had a Bike shop and provided the big wheel bike in the movie and those overhead wires the baton was being thrown in were actually electric trackless trollies wires. It was hot out that day .. I was 15

[@joemonroe3811]

That's a great story I bet this brings back good memories thank you

[@lf9341]

I just found out, my friend from middle school who I had dinner with, was smoking a cigarette in Cushing Square and Matt Dillon asked he if she had a lighter!

[@jlassh]

as a Midwesterner nobody gets the midwestern right better than Jean did

[@uhf001]

Jean Shepherd told Jimmy Broderik to play the part of the old man like this guy is "out of his mind"...and he certainly did!

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Aka Doug L. from the series “FAMILY”, which is the only soap opera to ever get the approval of the National PTA.

[@bobdrennan488]

Bless who ever thought to save this show so we could keep seeing it.

[@steveperry1344]

finally i found it, it's been 40 years. thnx.

[@Gfysimpletons]

Yep, today, 07-04-2024, I’m sitting here wondering why there aren’t any Independence Day movies on and for whatever reason I typed in to google “1980’s Fourth of July narrative movies” and voila. I saw it last in 1986 in social studies, grade 9. 38 years…. Time flies I tells ya. The brain works in very mysterious ways.

[@jdhreiss]

South of the Border was THE place to stop for fireworks! They had them spread out like penny candies! I've been in there a half-dozen times. M-80's, Cherry bombs, roman candles!

[@AdhamOhm]

I had relatives in SC back in the 90s when i was a kid. When our family went there to visit them for vacation, they took us to this place. We drove home with the trunk full of fireworks. I thought that place was so cool and I liked it better than Myrtle Beach, the other place we went. (Now that I'm older of course, I like Myrtle Beach more.)

[@peterisnardi1197]

I've always loved Shep's particular mix of cynicism and reverence...

[@Wildcock23]

Watching this on the 4th of July 2022… 40 years later from when it was made in 1982! 🇺🇸 💪

[@sclerismockrey8506]

I watched this with my mom and dad the night it first aired on PBS. A vivid and much-loved memory.

[@bearwoody]

Almost 42 years ago! I was so proud that Shepherd put "The Region" on the national map (even though he changed the name of the city to Homan). Whenever I meet someone else from NW Indiana we always share a knowing chuckle. The absolute best is the rare occasion when I meet someone who says they were from Munster because then I get to say, "You're from "snooty Munster?!" and we have a laugh

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Watching these, I thought it was Gary, IN or close by.

[@brocklanders6172]

This is what being American, at least used to be, is. Good, kind, neighborly, and fun loving. I hope it's not gone, but I have my doubts

[@Jcolinsol]

I wish that I could savor life to a fraction of the degree that Jean Shepherd clearly did.

[@jenniferjack4346]

Preach Brother Beef!!!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

My Dad would get super-excited about July 4th because of his neighborhood fireworks displays... but they were NOTHING compared to this one!! WOW!!

[@elpegaso]

Instead of watching the TBS marathon, I thought I'd go looking for other Shep films. Thanks for sharing!

[@jenniferjack4346]

There is a website as well! With radio shows when he was a d.j. wonderful weekly installments. Just found it so I'm telling everyone! Even though it's feeling as though I'm the Only one who didn't know.😂 oh well better late than never. Good to see so many who love Shep

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

A Jean Shepherd Marathon sounds far more appropriate than playing one movie over and over.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss is a really good follow-up.

[@BamaFanUSMC]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. It's amazing how much everyone can relate to this typical American family and have the same memories

[@HelamanGile]

we watch this every year for the 4th of July

[@gfriedman99]

Funny, I used to listen to Shep all the time on WOR radio new york in high school and college in the 70s. Only found out now that he made movies as well. Saw Xmas Story but had no idea it was him. I've got alot of catching up to do. Just a great storyteller.

[@msnthrowp]

This is an American classic. Many thanks for posting this in it's entirety!

[@rebeccacoffey454]

When I was a little girl, my family watched this on PBS. When the famous Christmas movie came out several years later, my dad took us to see it on opening weekend (And there were 5 of us kids...so we rarely went to the movies!) So grateful to have found this. Thank you gollygilbert!

[@AutisticJoker88]

I wouldn't really call a year's time (this came out in 1982, A Christmas Story came out in 83) several years later, but okay

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@AutisticJoker88 These stories certainly took place over a period of years from the 30's to the 50's.

[@dk60ish]

Yes! I feel this was somewhat snubbed at the time, due to the Matt Dillion Heartthrob backlash, but it's one of my absolute faves I taped & watched on my VHS every 4th for years until it wore out, so thanks for this!

[@jldog134]

I personally like it its interesting to see how Matt Dillon got his start he played Ralph before he played Dallas on Outsiders

[@robrussell5329]

I play a tape recorded off the radio in the 60s of Shepherd reading the Lud Kissell story on WOR every 4th of July. About 45 minutes. it's Shepherd, and it's great.

[@Gfysimpletons]

@@jldog134I believe he got his start in the late 70’s “My Bodyguard” was before this. That’s one of his best movies IMO. His worst was “The House That Jack Built”.

[@anitaburgos894]

A Fourth of July must see since 1982. I still remember my brother and I laughing hysterically at Ralph's moment of self-awareness. The entire story still cracks me up no matter how many times I see it. The unauthorized use of the "Jaws" and "Ragtime" soundtracks make it all the more special. Thank you for sharing.

[@PanhandleFrank]

I can only assume that the use of NPR’s “All Things Considered” theme was approved, given the incestuous relationship between NPR and PBS. (And damn, but I hate that earworm!)

[@halloweenhaunt3121]

I had the soundtrack album from “Ragtime” so immediately recognized the snippets these PBS Jean Shepherd shows used. Not sure how they got away with that.

[@joemonroe3811]

This is the first time I've seen this I love the Christmas story and I also love Jean Shepard thank you for sharing this❤

[@DarthWilliam1118]

I love this funny little film. Contains two references to events in "A Christmas Story".

[@Woodbutcher681]

Born and raised in Hohman, (actually Hammond), Indiana. Also met Jean's brother Randy who was living in Highland at the time, about a mile from me. He had a Bentley like the one Jean was driving in the movie and used it in his limousine service.. Drove by Jean's boyhood home the other day.

[@CapitanFantasma1776]

Twice, I laughed so hard, I cried. I haven't done that in years! Thanks!

[@danbashur]

Very few are even aware of this classic. Besides this fortunately being a cherished memory of my childhood (aired when I was 5 years old), I have always been drawn in by the excitement of fireworks. I poured over fireworks catalogs as a kid, envisioning myself as "the old man" one day building an extravaganza of a display (which I did do eventually a couple of times for the family). Another thing I remember after watching this movie was begging my dad for years after to visit Pedro's at South of the Border - every time we took a trip to Myrtle Beach. Eventually, on one trip down there he relented and when we got there and witnessed the splendor of Pedro's, even dad's eyes lit up in awe with the wide variety of stuff there that "went off with a bang". Definitely simpler times. I have a nice Phantom Fireworks store just 5-10 miles from my home now, but sadly can't blow much up in my suburban neighborhood. God bless the 4th of July!

[@Peter-pv8xx]

One of favorite Shep stories, but then again they all are.

[@jenniferjack4346]

Correct Peter, impossible to choose!

[@jerrygarcia9244]

Man I grew up on this. Its amazing. I love it I love it.

[@kmexperience]

32:32 “The only thing that he ever won was a stupid lamp and nobody cared.” But then when that story got adapted into a movie, the lamp was the centerpiece of it. I haven’t read the books and I don’t know which of these two films was closer to them, but I love seeing ideas like that get implemented differently and take on new lives.

[@misterspray7323]

He reworked a lot of his stories for these. The turkey fiasco in "A Christmas Story" was actually about an Easter ham.

[@PanhandleFrank]

“when that story got adapted into a movie, the leg lamp was the centerpiece” A “Christmas Story” fan bought the house in Cleveland that was used for the exterior shots of the Parker home, remodeled three interior to resemble the interior set, and added a gift shop. They sell the Daisy BB gun, and both full-size and miniature leg lamps. But no wash rags. 🤣😅😂

[@robrussell5329]

Read his books. Shepherd is best when read.

[@VintageMidiMusic]

Happy 4th everyone. Thanks to seeing this movie at age 4 and watching it every 4th of July since, I grew up noticing and savoring all the little moments in life I might have missed had I not seen this. It had a huge influence on my life and still does.

[@JimDeLorenzo]

Thank you for sharing this with us! This is the best quality version I've seen of this treasured teen-age memory that I've seen in a long while! Happy Fourth of July to all the Shep fans out there!

[@FaithTheSlayer]

Happy fourth of July to you as well.

[@DrutimBates]

Excelsior!

[@jenniferjack4346]

Thanks

[@candacemommie9957]

Been looking for this for years. Merci.

[@dennisdivine7448]

I'm a longtime Jean Shepherd fan, but I was totally unaware that PBS had made TV movies of some of his stories. I wish this sort of thing would make it to DVD!

[@erin19030]

I had my very first Taco at South of the Border , the bought fireworks !

[@nihilisticpunk24]

Just watched this for the 4th on the 4th. 😃

[@bumpee978]

His stories where personal yet so American that you can appreciate and identify with some part of Shepherds stories he is truly apart of Americana patch work!

[@joebobjones2238]

One of the great films from one of our greatest humorists. I love that I can see this again in full!

[@brooklynbummer]

I have not seen this in years and I am happy to see it again. Always remembered this disaster.

[@misparas]

Thank you for posting this. I have many great childhood memories of watching this movie.

[@notroll1279]

I'm a Ludlow Kissel fan!

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Me too!

[@Johnson-Sequoia]

I love this show! Great memories watching this with my Dad.

[@nadinerogers5653]

I have been looking for this for years. I saw this when I was about 13 and I LOVED it. It was so nice to see it again!

[@jlassh]

this makes me want to go buy fireworks to remember my dad too... haha this rocks

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

We used to shoot rockets every July 4th at my grandma's 40 years ago.

[@douglasshane7473]

A treasure found! Though I've looked online for several years, today being Shep's birthday, I tried again - and was rewarded! Who says there's no justice and nothing good?! Thanx for posting!

[@rebeccarusscher3393]

I LOVE IT - I LOVE IT!!!!!! Growing up on the East Side of Chicago, I can totally relate! So glad it's on KZbin - my VCR copy was just about dead.

[@jamesmunroe6598]

Jean Shepherd's 4th of July with Matt Dillion is timeless. A true Master Piece!

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

19:06 It's Fuzzhead from Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Didn’t even notice.

[@tphvictims5101]

Shear Gene-ious. I had lost all hope of seeing this again. Thank you very much.

[@quixoticjedi942]

Haven't seen this is years, thanks for sharing it with the world.

[@jenniferjack4346]

I know right! We found it about the same time. Check out website they have his radio shows when he was a d.j.

[@beverlypollack5887]

I love this movie. Life was so simple then and this brings me back to my childhood! Thank you for posting. I've watched several movies by Jean Shepherd and they are all so wonderful.

[@jenniferjack4346]

Yes ma'am Beverly! Love them all!

[@elizabethvlach9902]

Love love love this! Such a part of my childhood! ❤️

[@gailg5261]

Fourth of July classic, jean Shepherd movie from 1982

[@patrixspringer2753]

Have not since this since it went out on PBS but remember it well... Thanks!

[@TTF12707]

thank you for this. Brings back memories. Good memories. thanks

[@stanleybest8833]

The Great American Fourth of July is film No. 25 on the Humanities Film Forum Must See List. What a cast.

[@steveperry1344]

i hope my wife likes it because she doesn't like anything i watch on youtube but she likes "christmas story".

[@misterspray7323]

I caught this completely by accident on the afternoon of July 4th the year it first was broadcast. I tried to get everyone I knew to watch it for years afterward. I recorded it on Betamax off of the Disney cable network in the 80's. They cut the line where he says "My old man always said that a raw onion was like a good sexual experience". Later I purchased a bootleg VHS tape from "Schmedco" up in NY State. I'm so glad this is on here. Thank you. Happy 4th!

[@jenniferjack4346]

Hey Mister Spray caught it by accident as well!! Just looking for something happy & nostalgic to watch. Something that made sense.....so little does to me anymore. Found youtube vid followed it to the website, and cried tears of joy watching the series, AND picking my jaw off the floor when i found the radio shows!!!! Didn't know he'd been a d.j. So glad to see soo many people still appreciate him and all his work of every genre(or should i say Jeanre😂) . Also don't know why it bothers me when people spell his name Gene?!? I suppose it's because I feel l protective of my childhood...oh well loved your comment good to know in these times that some people have good taste. Thank you Mister!

[@misterspray7323]

@@jenniferjack4346 Thanks! Read all of his books if you haven't. Also, look up what he did on the radio pertaining to "I Libertine" and "Excelsior you Fathead!"

[@PanhandleFrank]

@@misterspray7323 The “I, Libertine” prank is a hoot! But I can’t find anything explaining “excelsior, you fathead” ... got a link or two, by any chance?? Thx!

[@brenthaymon280]

Great movie. Never saw this before. Thanks for the upload.

[@PanhandleFrank]

Meh ... the stories are funny, but than the production values suck azz. Shep would have graduated HS around 1939 ... “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” was made in 1955 ... and the kids in the marching band are wearing early 80s clothing and hairstyles? The sound track sounds like it was put together by an 8th-grader (in 1982!!), the editing is terrible (e.g. the werewolf realization in the theater), and the credits are just fourth-rate. NOT worthy of Shep, IMNTBHO. But oh well, you take what you can get ... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@salenaroper3984]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I watched it when it first aired in the 80s because I was crazy for Matt Dillon and I've always wanted to see it again :)

[@glendabadger8865]

Found this searching for a 4th of July movie - didn't know it existed! So wonderful - A Christmas story in July

[@lazlow8788]

This another chapter from the Book In God We Trust, All others pay cash. "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back"

[@powertube5671]

My favorite Shep movie on my favorite time of year. I wonder what ever happened to the original movie film that a fresh copy can't be scanned for a nice clear picture.

[@katb6981]

Thanks for posting this I lost the copy I had. How sad I feel for kids today never would they understand the funny simple joys of Shep's childhood.

[@jenniferjack4346]

Need this now more than ever

[@pem1974]

I think the producers owe John Williams a nickel for all of his Jaws music that they used.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Shep probably paid him off under the table.

[@sueh3709]

Thanks for posting this treasure.

[@elijahvincent985]

Dallas as Ralphie? Strange sight, but well acted!

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Far out and groovy, but tell it to Ponyboy and the other Greasers!

[@BallPlayer97]

What a great country this once was. But it’s gone with the wind.

[@PanhandleFrank]

Not without a fight, it ain’t ...

[@thebrinksf69]

It was great with Trump again, but its now gone with Biden. We'll get back to a great country when Trump gets back in office.

[@PanhandleFrank]

@@thebrinksf69 Our country is facing a God problem - not a Trump v Biden problem.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Trump is a blood thirsty maniac.

[@abigaildarling3680]

The parade was filmed in Belmont Mass

[@eddiecarderjr.2976]

Jean Shepherdis up there with Mark Twain as United States storytellers. Besides the Christmas story movie he has this and other stories that are equal. He also was on radio and is the voice on GE Century of Progress at Disneyparks. I try to tell my friends to look at his works...they are Gems...but most not do it.

[@stevenw4318]

More Fools They.

[@bobblehead67]

Scout around on KZbin. There's an amazing old broadcast he did on the time he accompanied the Beatles on a U.K. tour before they even hit the US. Masterful, as you might expect.

[@kevinmontgomery1383]

bravo

[@AdhamOhm]

It's funny how Flick and Schwartz seemed to have swapped personalities between this and "A Christmas Story."

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Shame on you Flick for feeding all that food to Schwartz, and causing him and Ralph to lose the sack race.

[@MattDilllon]

i was thinking the same thing

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

Ditto.

[@greenmonsterprod]

Schwartz mellowed out, and Flick got revenge for the flagpole incident.

[@sgeorge3167]

Forever after watching this movie we called my German mother's potato salad "glockenspiel" potato salad...

[@powertube5671]

Happy Fourth of July 2018 This has always been mu favorite Shep movie. By the way, the Sears Roebuck radio is actually a 1951 Arvin 540T. Sears may have branded it. Google it and select "images." Complete with the hum built in. I remember those AC/DC radios. Plug them in the wrong way and the chassis is HOT. It can kill you.

[@gfriedman99]

Great comment. Thanks for the reference. Reminds me of my dad's 1964 Zenith tube radio. About 25 years later it was still in use in our garage all beat up the dials broke off. I went to throw it out and my father stopped me. He was so attached to it. Which was unlike him cause he would throw away everything else.

[@bobdorianamc1984]

This film was seen on The Disney Channel in 1987! Thanks for uploading this video!

[@fringestream990]

Ha, south of the boarder hasn't changed lol

[@Gfysimpletons]

Listen to what they are chanting at 38:23 😂😂😂

[@OzricSpacefolk]

thanks ive never seen this

[@robrussell5329]

Somewhat "obvious" and over-the-top. But I suppose that has to be in order to get the movie made. The Blind Date is a hollow shell of Shep's written version. And Lud Kissel's Dago Bomb is a written Shepherd classic, it just can't be done justice in a low budget film. Oh, and Kissel lived next door.

[@robrussell5329]

Early on, Shep and Schwartz are walking home... down a hilly street. Ain't no hilly streets in northern Indiana.

[@zboys4586]

Who how why and what for. Three truths. My truth. Your truth. The truth. History will make up the rest.

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

All I can say about this is that Flick deliberately made Schwartz eat too much food, and lose the sack race, which in this story makes him the 4TH of July answer to Scut Farkus.

[@joellandy]

Be honest. Have you been on a blind date since watching this?

[@alexandregingras1622]

5:31 "You'll shoot your eye out..." I wonder where we heard that before, in a Sheperd adaptation...

[@DexterHaven]

His gift is more storytelling than narrating video footage. This would have sufficed as a story on the radio. Screw the video.

[@cicada784]

True that GS's gift with words is the key, but the film was well cast and all actors did a brilliant job...fun to watch.

[@Peter-pv8xx]

A shep show for every season, this for independence day the star crossed romance of Josephine cosnowski for thanksgiving a Christmas story, my summer story the sequel to a Christmas story which I think went straight to video, ollie hopnoodles haven of bliss another summertime show and the phantom of the open hearth for spring.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

28:18- Friendzone achieved.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on March 16, 1982.

[@zachary939]

The real life Flick was my grandfather. No shit. I grew up with that shady bastard being my gramps. The same flick that supposedly stuck his tongue to the flagpole in A Christmas Story. (He denied it by the way)

[@joebobjones2238]

Jackie was your grandpa? When did Flick's Tavern close?

[@zachary939]

​@@joebobjones2238 He sure was my grandpa. I'm not entirely sure when it closed. I think he sold it and retired before I was born, I don't remember him ever not being retired. The earliest I remember, him and Opal were already living on Lake Dale near Lowell. His daughter, Jean had me in '77, so probably sometime around then. Give or take a few years. I haven't really read much of jean Shepherd's works, so I'm not entirely sure how much he talked about him, but I'm kind of amazed that anybody even knew he owned a bar, or that he was called Jackie instead of Flick. Did you know Jack? If you did, I'd fucking love to hear some stories about my gramps.

[@zachary939]

I can ask my mom though. I'm sure she would know when it closed.

[@zachary939]

@@joebobjones2238 According to my mom, "Jack Flickinger moved his business from 165 th street to 162nd in 1970. He rented the first location, bought the second. I helped him move, I sat in on the new bar design, I watched the contractor remodel the old greasy spoon into the new Flicks. I even scraped grease off the old flat top. His legal name was Jack, not Jackie. Jack sold to a partnership, one half of whom committed suicide. Last owners turned it into a taco bar and last I heard had issues with shootings on site. I’d think long and hard before going into that neighborhood and trying to start a liquor business. Heck Dad had people break in through the HVAC on the roof before he sold out about 1978."

[@joebobjones2238]

@@zachary939 No, sorry, I didn't know him. I did grow up down the road in Lafayette, though, but I'm too young, barely a half century old now. Your grandpa is referred as "Jackie" on the Flick Lives webpage in the Flick's Tap section, which leads me to believe that Shepherd referred to him as Jackie if and when he used his real name on the air on Shepherd's Pie, instead of always just Flick. Your mom has a few choice words for Shepherd and his portrayal of your grandpa in this piece from the city, which I'm sure you've seen of course. It's always good to get the full story! Shepherd was a notorious crank, even with his friends, and difficult to get along with by all accounts. He was a great storyteller, but from what I can tell, a great pain in the butt, too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJKVf6Gunc2tj6c

[@tkelly5530]

What march is the band playing over and over again? I never forgot the tune from when I once saw this film on PBS back in 1982. It can't be Sousa's" el Capitan," or is it?

[@PanhandleFrank]

I’m no Sousa expert, but I don’t recognize it as Sousa. I have 2-3 Sousa CDs ... think I’ll dig ‘em out and give ‘em a listen.

[@jeffreyhart500]

Its Hohman in the movies, Hammond in reality. Hammond is actually across the street from the Hegewisch neighborhood in Chicago Not 'Hollman' as described.

[@EzekielMessenger]

Happy 4th of July 2022

[@Anarchist86ed]

Yes, these are the same Christmas story characters. But A Christmas Story didn't come out for another year.

[@sardu55]

'Pinwheels' had another name, commonly used, that cannot be repeated in public without rapid and swift arrest. I like the inside symbolism of the band major, wearing a dreaded Cubs hat, sign of the enemy if you're from south Hammond.

[@kevinmontgomery1383]

I can only guess tassels

[@gfriedman99]

If its what I'm thinking then it wasn't the pinwheels, it was the bottle rockets.

[@goldenmanuever1176]

lol...so the Olds freezes and overheats. haha

[@pwrofrob]

3:25, Jaws soundtrack 😉

[@peteg475]

That soundtrack is used in several places throughout this. Of course, July 4 is a big part of "Jaws", too.

[@thebrinksf69]

Back when you could say "it was hotter than a fat lady in a sauna". This is a good start to "A Christmas Story". This was rough around the edges, but I can see how some cleaning up made ACS a great movie.

[@davidbostock6776]

I prefer the original broadcast with the underblankets accidental creampie portrayed. That must be gone forever.

[@LandondeeL]

Try looking for it here www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/comedy/jean-shepherd-show

[@roshambo187]

Why would anyone want to use someone else’s wash rags? 😂

[@joelyons9629]

FLICK LIVES!!