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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
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Will this movie be shown on TV again?
Date: 05-28-2005
By: stevemc
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Does anyone here have a source to find out if this movie will be sh |
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A personal favorite
Date: 11-24-2007
By: duane
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I know that many folks don't particularly like this movie as compared to ACS, but it is one of my favorites, because it so parallels my youth. Our family was from EC, only 2 miles away from Hessville (Hohman). My father was originally from Paw Paw Michigan, where my grandmother and several of my Dad's brothers were still farming (except Doc, who owned a junk yard - what fun!) Anyway, each summer our family would load up the 1950 Chevy to the brim for our 1 week vacation to Paw Paw. We would take Hwy 12 to the Red Arrow Highway in Michigan (2 lane US highways). Hwy 12 went through the Dunes back then. While US steel in Gary had been there for ages, the Steel Mills in Burns Harbor were still a good decade or so into the future, so it was much different than today. I remember places that had big "Indian Rugs" for sale hanging out by the road. Also there was Saylor Basket place (on Hwy 20 in Porter) that sold all kinds of Yard (Slob) art, like mirror balls and concrete statues.
We would stop at wayside rests to have a picnic lunch. My mom usually made "city chicken" which was pork pieces on a stick. Our trip usually took about 3 hours to get from EC to Paw Paw. We would do a lot of fishing, swimming in the Paw Paw River, running around the farm and playing at Doc's Auto Parts junk yard. A great place for a young boy.
I often wonder if the many similarities between the Parker family's trip to Michigan and my own were based upon taking the same route and seeing many of the same places. I never really heard of Clear Lake in the area, nor of Ollie Hopnoodles. As with many Shep things (like Hohman itself) they are no doubt fictitios names based on real places and events.
Just wondered if any other region rats that took their annual vacation to Paw Paw, Dowagiac, Watervliet, Lawrence, or any nearby places noticed similarities with what Shep put in the Ollie Hopnoodle movie. |
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DVD
Date: 12-07-2007
By: wiggles
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Is it going to come out on DVD? |
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DVD available - cheap!
Date: 12-18-2007
By: jcpo
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I have good quality homemade betamax-to-DVD editions of "The Great American Fourth...", "...Josephine Cosnowski", and "Ollie Hopnoodle ...". Please check out my web page at [url] http://www.chapot.org/videos.html [/url] . |
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What decade does Shep write about?
Date: 02-16-2009
By: duane
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After viewing several of the stories made into movies, I've got a question I've not been able to answer. What decade is Shep supposedly writing about? I just watched Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss and there are 1957 and 1958 Chevy's in those movies, so it has to be at least 1958 or possibly up into the early 1960's. This would put me roughly about Randy's or Ralphie's age in the movies, but yet I think Shep was many years older than me.
And he always talks about the depression in his writings (There used to be "work" around here) so I assumed that most of his writings were set in the early 1940's. In ACS, they have a radio and no TV, so the 1940's would fit. Were they just sloppy in selecting cars for some of the other movies? |
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