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Hello Date: 04-11-2005 By: Skoonj ( Topic#: 2 )	Am I really the first to post here? I thought there were previous posts. Oh well. Excelsior, you fathead!	4
Poetry Reading of Evolution Date: 04-22-2005 By: Harris Miller ( Topic#: 3 )	Is there any way for me to get this reading? I would pay for it if necc. Thanks, Harris Miller Evolution From time to time Shep would make reference to this poem and even recited it in its entirety on show in 1966. � EVOLUTION Langdon Smith	2
Any opinons on Jean Shepherd mp3 discs on ebay ? Date: 04-24-2005 By: kramden66 ( Topic#: 4 )	i see theres various people selling mp3 dvds and cds of Shep on ebay and i was wondering if anyone had any opions on them ? would they be any good ? somehow i doubt they'd sound as good as the ones on mass backwords because of all that compression or would they ? thanks for playing them Max . Mike	8
Hello from Canada! Date: 04-30-2005 By: Nick C ( Topic#: 7 )	....This is great idea, Jim. I hope it's as popular as the site itself. Nick	0
Fathead Central Date: 05-06-2005 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 12 )	Every Shepherd fan cannot thank Mr Beauchamp enough for his splendid effort to get Shep's stuff out to the fans.	2
Farkas Date: 05-16-2005 By: agreenfield ( Topic#: 14 )	I noticed a copyright on a photo of Flick's belongs to a Steve Farkas. Could he be related to the infamous Farkas family?	1
Tapes left at Shep's cabin and home Date: 05-17-2005 By: dhines ( Topic#: 15 )	Does anyone know what happened to all of the tapes that Shep left at his home in Florida and the material that was in his cabin in Maine? There must have been some treasures there.	2
Thanks for the site Date: 06-30-2005 By: Skip ( Topic#: 21 )	Great website, boy does it bring back memories. I was one of the teenagers that hid under the covers and listened on a pocket radio with and earphone. I wish I had some great Shep stories I could tell but alas not really. I can say that I lived outside of Princeton, NJ when I first heard him, This was in the early 60's. I went my freshman year to Princeton High, this was probably like 1964-1965 (then moved) I had been listening for at least a couple of years at that time. Why I mention this is during that year I was told by a school buddy that Shep's son also went there. I had him pointed out (it was a big school compared to where I had come up from) we lived in the country, and something like 50 or so kids moved up to this school from our secondary. Princeton was a large high at that time to us. Anyway I would like to be able to say I grew to be good friends and and all that. But it didn't happen. I think I remember at the time someone saying that his son didn't talk too much about him and that Shep would come from time to time to visit him. I never even talked to him directly, I guess I got the feeling there wasn't a great bond there and what am I going to but go on about how great his father is? Looking over the list of recording, I really feel sick now, Back about 1990 or so I got rid of my old reel to reel tape players and all my old tapes. (I was in a rush move and just didn't realize what I was giving up, I hadn't listened to the tapes for 20 years or so) I took to a flea market/auction house several big boxes of tapes, in there was probably a couple of years of his shows. I had rigged up the tape players to record his shows nightly and then I would play then back. I forget if the tape players were from Lafayette electronics or not. He got me hooked on electronics also, but I never took as a career. Helped me in the stage crew at school though. I didn't find a lot on the site about some of the gang of 4. You had Shep, Flick, Swartz (sp?), and Brunner (sp?), I remember him saying that one of the last two was killed during the war (WWII) were they real or composites if so what was there story. It was interesting about his brother (I remember him mentioning him from time to time). When I was a kid listening I did write the station about if they sold tapes of the shows- never heard back. I had always wanted to go to the live Saturday show but never got the chance- my father knew a guy that was familiar with the area and place and I talked to him at the time to see if he had been there. He said he had heard of Shep, but it was a different crowd there and he didn't go there. I had (might still have it in an old box) a 1st edition of In God We Trust, I will look for it. Favorite blasts from the past: The show were he found a self-destruct device in a surplus store, off one of the RADAR units and tried to get it to go off. The Dago bomb and his father's fireworks business - Excelsior Fireworks Company. Thanks for having this site to bring back fond memories and let me know what happened to my youth Cult hero. Skip	0
glad to have seen shep Date: 07-25-2005 By: murdock ( Topic#: 23 )	I first came upon shep in playboy, I think story was Ollie Hoopnagles Heaven of Bliss. Been a fan ever since. So glad I got to see him preform live at Symphony Hall in Boston, think in early 80's. Funny as always and they had to pull him off stage because show was running so late.	0
New member from Indiana Date: 08-10-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 26 )	Hello fellow Shep fans!! I am a native of Indiana,(like Shep), and so it has been easy for me to relate to all of his stories ref Indiana and his days in the Army. I fell in love with Manhattan when I was there in the seventies, and could "live there in a New York minute!".. My current job allows me to travel all over the state and I have been lucky enough to see Shep's childhood stomping grounds... Shep left us a lot of clues about the details of his life,( for anybody willing to really listen), and I don't think he was as secretive about his past as some have suggested. I listened to a Limelight show recently and he tells us his barracks at Camp Crowder was on Tennessee street.(This was the episode of Labor Day 1964..) Recently, I sent Mr Jim Clavin(SP?) an e-mail with photo attachments, as I'm pretty sure I located the real location of "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven Of Bliss".(again,it was because of Sheps' very descriptive story-telling in "Monsters Of Michigan", that I located it at "Sister Lakes" near Dowagiac and Cassopoulis Michigan.. (Punch Sister Lakes into your browser and you will find pics, etc, and a tale mirroring Shep's tale of the "MONSTER!!!!) I was an investigator for many years in the past, and now that I have some time to travel a bit, I do hope to solve some of Shep's riddles, and look forward to conversing with the good folks on this forum..... Excelsior !!!!!!!!!!!![:D] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
PBS movie rights? Date: 08-23-2005 By: Brent ( Topic#: 27 )	I see that the 3 PBS movies are residing at WGBH Boston but have not been released to video. They would make a great DVD collection. I can see it being tied in with ACS to increase awareness. Does anybody know who has the rights? Is there difficulty in assigning rights now that Shep is gone? Does WGBH make broadcast rights available to others? "Mah Gawd! Hey, Maw, It's Cassie! She's home from the reformatory!"	5
Where is Shep today? Date: 08-23-2005 By: Brent ( Topic#: 28 )	This is a little morbid but I didn't see anything in EYFH about what happened to Shep after he died. Was there a funeral? Findagrave.com says he was cremated, but what became of his ashes? Were any headstones or memorials placed for him? Considering how many folks have been influenced by his work it seems like there should be something. "Mah Gawd! Hey, Maw, It's Cassie! She's home from the reformatory!"	2
Flicks Tap Date: 08-29-2005 By: Ryan ( Topic#: 29 )	Hi All Out There I just got back to my office in Indianapolis from Hammond IN. I was in the area on business & had to stop by the Tap. There is not much to the place. It was barely noon so only about one or two locals were there which was perfect. That gave me a chance to check out the place without getting in anyones way. If anyone gets a chace to go there, you should check out the chilie. After lunch & a few beers I chated with the locals & sat back to take it all in. On the way out of town, right near the bar, I passed Cleveland Street.	9
General trivia Date: 09-02-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 33 )	The Hammond city assessers office reports Sheps home at 2907 E Cleveland was actually not built until 1927, (So Sheps' family moved there when he was approx 6) ! The home is only 1032 Square feet inside and the yard is 40 feet wide by 140 feet long.(This is .13 acres). Shep reportedly also lived on Arizona street, which is the street near his home running north and south, so the family must have been pretty much bound to this same neighborhood, (which makes sense as regardless of statements he "lived in Chicago", his school friends were apparently students of either Harding elementary, or Hammond High !)[:)] Please note most assessers do not include basements when they figure usable square footage, and this is the house where 1. Shep found mice in the basement 2. Shep lost his class ring 3. Shep's "Old Man" stomped down to the basement, and "worked in profanity as other artists worked in oil!"........[:D] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	12
Flicklives.com - Jim Clavin Date: 10-05-2005 By: madmanmagic ( Topic#: 49 )	Hey Jim Clavin! Thanks for the web site and converting the shows to mp3. Max S, from Mass Backwards said to thank you, not him for the mp3's! So I say - thanks! Dan "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - �Walt Disney	0
Halloween Show? Date: 10-05-2005 By: madmanmagic ( Topic#: 50 )	Did Shep ever do a Halloween story? Anyone? [}:)] Thanks, Dan New Jersey! The Garden State! "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - �Walt Disney	4
Glen Shepherd? Date: 10-11-2005 By: ErikRP ( Topic#: 54 )	Hi! New to these forums, but a search here and on Jim's main site failed to turn up any specifics on Shep's other brother, Glen. I don't remember hearing much if anything about another brother (other than Randy of course) until I checked the obituary notice for Shep's father. There it says "survivors include his widow and three sons, Randall of Hammond, Jean Jr. of New York and Glen of West Palm Beach." Anyone have any information on Glen, and why we never heard about him?	2
Chicago White Sox Date: 10-14-2005 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 56 )	I think it's interesting that the White Sox are in the playoffs this year despite the fact that they beat the Red Sox [V]. The way that Game 2 ended was pure Shep, although in his world, it would have been the Angels that would have benefitted. If that happened at a Red Sox-Yankees game, I know that fistfights would have broken out in droves. Anyway, knowing the many comments (digs) that Shep made about the White Sox, did he ever mention them in his shows in 1959, the last time they went to the World Series? P.S.: I live in Salem, MA, the Witch City, where Slobbism is now running rampant. A prime example of Slob Art is just down the street from my office, the TV Land Bewitched statute. Every October we are gripped in a Santanic Bridgadoon before we lapse back into our comas on Nov. 1	8
FS: Live at the Village Limelight 34 tapes Like Nw Date: 10-16-2005 By: otaku ( Topic#: 57 )	Live at the Village Limelight, 34 tapes labelled 1A thru 24. All in perfect condition, in individual plastic boxes. All broadcast on WOR AM or FM, between April 3 1965 and Sept 16, 1967 ---------------------------------------------- Used Cars, Driving to the Prom The Great Generator Hunt Cave Diggers, Drive-In Datte, Company K Eggs The Star and Garter, The Pursuit of Sin Mothers Day, Shep in Australia Hammond High Graduation, Running for Junior Class President Jeanette Dombrowski, Army Payday Graduation Day Be Careful of Live Wires! VD Film, Trooptrain Ernie, Army Glasses Baseball Stories Great Ice Cream Riot Trivia, Fleischman's Yeast Fantasy vs. Reality, Shirt Commercial Building First Radio with the Old Man The Lure of Defeat -- The Mets Playing Footsie in the Library Playing it Big on a Date Old Time Radio, Comics, More The Prom Buying a Used Car for Flick Custer; Graduation Day The Great Ice Cream Riot Fishing Story Forced March thru the Ozarks with Gasser & Goldberg Polish Wedding, VD Movie Natural and Other Types of Vacation (rerun) Asking $50 or best offer. You can contact me off-list at flick at axelny dot com	0
George Ade Date: 10-18-2005 By: murdock ( Topic#: 59 )	I noticed while reading Excelsor you Fat Head Shep often refered to George Ade so I went out and found a book Permanent Ade. It's an interesting read of short stories written back in the early 40's or so which makes the writings from that time in society. Some witty stories but what I liked most and looked forward to after each story was "The Moral of the Story" Ade has a funny way of writing these.	6
Favorite episode/program ?? Date: 10-19-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 60 )	My favorite is the one labelled "Trip to the chaplain/ Emde's folly." In this episode, Shep has the engineer play a sorrowful tune he calls "Music to go to the chaplain by", and IMHO the music selection is perfect for the event, and really serves to underscore how the event turns out for Shep. Marvelous and humorous story. The rest of the same program is a description of the building of the pseudo stucco hacienda house built next door to Sheps house at 2907 Cleveland.The home was built by an eccentric fella named Emde, and later was the home of the Bumpus family. The homes in this neighborhood of Hessville are still all there to this day, and all locally is intact, (except for the old Harding elementary, which was 2 blocks east of Shep's house, next to a local swamp/bog.) The newer Harding is currently on an adjacent lot. Pics of the homes and the newer school are on the Flicklives.com website............[:)] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	7
JUNIOR HIGH !!!!!!! Date: 10-26-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 65 )	I just listened to a Shep story in sundication from the late '70's called "Test taking", and for the first time, heard him indicate he went to Morton Jr H.S... I had till now only known of his grade school and the Hammond H.S...... In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	9
A Christmas Story...Slob Art Date: 10-29-2005 By: murdock ( Topic#: 67 )	I occasionally receive magazines in the mail that sell toys, unique gifts, T shirts etc. Recently I received one that had items from A Christmas Story. There was a Leg Lamp, available as night light as well. Two talking dolls, Ralphie and the Old Man. Ralphie says "Fuu-uu-dge" and some other things. The Old Man declares "It's a major award" There was also Ralphie and the Old Man Bobble head dolls. Ralphie holding the BB gun and the Old Man with the leg lamp.I can't help but wonder what Shep would think of this slob art spin off from his movie.[^]	3
Good place to raid picnics ?? Date: 11-04-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 69 )	On a couple of programs, Shep stated he and "the regulars" raided several picnics over a couple of summers, at a "large nature preserve about 2 miles" (from the Cleveland street address.) Currently, there is a nature preserve just a couple of blocks north, (Gibson Park), but it was not there in Shep's days. Bill Bucko provided some nice old maps which reveal there is an old Nature preserve, approx 2 miles from Shep's home. This preserve is at the west end of 165th street, right on the Illinois/ Indiana border, and is actually 2 preserves combined, (the Calumet and the Wentworth). This would make sense as it is also closer to where "the Old Man" grew up as a child in his youth. Shep further mentions it as "too far to walk so I always took my apple green Elgin bicycle." He also stated the "Lithuanian American picnics were the best !"[:p] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	7
More Slob Art Date: 11-17-2005 By: murdock ( Topic#: 71 )	I received another gift catalog in my mail yesterday. Wireless was name of it. Inside I found a full size 40" leg lamp.$249.95 + 20.00 shipping.Also in there was A Christmas Story leg lamp snowglobe. $39.95 Slob art at it's best[8D] but you know what? It's pretty nifty looking. 7"Globe with leg lamp inside on top of the crate. "FRA-GEE-LAY Must be Italian" [;)] (FRAGILE) as Old Man Parker said.I kind of like this snowglobe and thinking this may become a genuine ""collectable" some day. A Christmas Story will soon be re-run all through the holiday season and younger audience will see the Shep humor in this classic. That Leg Lamp has become pretty recognizeable by people. MURDOCK[^]	1
"The dumps" !!(& Sheps' golf course found!) Date: 11-21-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 72 )	Shep admits he got hooked on visiting the dumps as a kid, and sez the one he and Flick frequented required "bicycling down Kennedy avenue, about half a mile south of the (Calumet) river", and then had to "cut off the avenue and go through woods and up and down some small hills." Shep has mentioned Hessville was literally on the edge of town at that time and his neighborhood was still in the process of being built. I have verified this via the Hammond assessors office, so his neighborhood as it existed back then , was much more refined in proximity to his home, (than is now the case.) This said, I believe the Little Calumet river was "out of town"(as Shep has claimed), and the dump was likely located where "Wicker Memorial Park" is located now. We (in present days) have seen dumps and landfills turned into "parks", and this (to me) would make a lot of sense. Currently, all other areas within the scope of Sheps' "measurements" are housing areas.......... In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	6
Cd's Date: 11-25-2005 By: Scooter ( Topic#: 73 )	Just a quick question. Is there any source for Sheps radio shows recorded on plain audio CD's that can be palyed in my car radio?	1
A play Date: 11-26-2005 By: murdock ( Topic#: 74 )	I read in the arts section of newspaper today that a local theater group is putting on a play about Sheps Christmas Story. I won't be going but am wondering what scenes they will wind up using in their production.[?]	1
Boy scout info Date: 11-27-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 75 )	Last night, I listened to "Code"( program of 1976 03 08), and Shep sez he,Schwartz, and Flick belonged to Troop 41, which met at the gymnasium at W.G.Harding school. (Wouldn't that be a great group pic to locate !!!!!!!!!!!) He sez their troop scarves were yellow and purple... Of course, they were in the "Moose" patrol.. In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Hammond's Christmas Story Parade This Saturday!! Date: 11-29-2005 By: Zudock ( Topic#: 76 )	Hammond is having its Christmas Parade this Saturday December 3rd at 10 am. on Indianapolis Blvd between 175th and 167th streets. The theme is "A Christmas Story" with a Ralphie look a like contest and other Shep themes. Hope you can make it! Zudock's Grandson	1
Army clues abound !! Date: 12-06-2005 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 77 )	As a veteran, I was mystified how Shep was able to stay in the same permanent party unit the whole time he served. The answer is, he didn't.. The army sends its' recruits thru a "basic training unit", and then, (sometimes) to a seperate school for "MOS" training, before sending the graduated recruit to his/her "permanent party" duty unit. I recently listened to a Shep tale, in which he states his initial unit was "Co A., 27th STR"(signal training regiment). This makes a lot of sense, and it was at Camp Crowder where he joined "Co K" upon completion. According to his tales, he first began to be a signal corps lineman, but after the mishaps on the poles, he claims he then went on to radar school. It is still entirely possible linemen and radar men could be found in the same unit, therefore he could continue to mention the same familiar names,(First Sgt Kowalski, Lt Cherry, Gasser,etc.) whether as a lineman, or radar tech.[^] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Pencil Test Date: 12-06-2005 By: exnj ( Topic#: 78 )	Hi all, Does anyone remember the "pencil test" from this 1972 show? It is one of the few shows I remember very well; I was a young teen male at the time. One confused woman caller interpreted the results of her test backwards. http://www.flicklives.com/database/summary.asp?ID=19720113W It wonder how dated it would sound today.	1
the Old man's furnace Date: 12-09-2005 By: the editor ( Topic#: 80 )	Say Shep fans, I am writing a story about Shep's Old Man and his battles with the furnnce. It would be great if his fans could chime in with some experiwnces of their own as kids while watching parents fighting with winter � and expecially battling the furnance. David R.	4
Which MP3's are the Shep classic? Date: 12-13-2005 By: Jim_Boone ( Topic#: 81 )	Hi Guys, I only heard of Shep quite recently, as a HAM i hang out on a list on which Shep K2ORS is talking about the code, and some times in the forces etc. Anyway so I'm thinking a lot of SHeps experiences and humor would be pretty entertaining for my Dad, he was born mid 40's albeit on the west coast, and was USAF for 22 years. I figured for Christmas I'd order up a copy of "In God We Trust" as he likes a good read, but thought it would also be worthwhile downloading some mp3's and coverting them to standard CD audio, and doing a few disks to go with it. The CW one I alluded to above is probably a good one to go in, but you guys listened to a lot more and may have a better idea of what the older genereation would get a kick out of ;-) (nothing personal, I'll be that soon enough!) Input appreciated! Jim	12
Sense of Place Date: 01-04-2006 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 83 )	Last night I listened to a show from January 1972 where Shep talked about being in places like Yankee Stadium, Churchill Downs and the TV studio where the 1960 Presidential Debates were held and feeling the sense of history in these places. In the outro, he was joking about how someday people would be wondering about the studio he was broadcasting from. I am wondering if WOR still uses the studios which he broadcasted from.	2
Commercials - Add Jiffy Pop Date: 01-05-2006 By: umtrr-author ( Topic#: 84 )	I noted the listing of Shep's commercials on Flick Lives. I am pretty sure that he also did several radio ads for Jiffy Pop popcorn, that ran some time after he left WOR. George in Ellison Park, NY http://www.irwinsjournal.com	1
Coming Soon? Date: 01-27-2006 By: ErikRP ( Topic#: 88 )	So... am I the ONLY one who is totally curious as to what the teaser is on the main page? Or am I the only one brave enough to ask? Or am I the only one not to know what's up? [:)]	7
jean shepards washington nj address ? Date: 02-02-2006 By: marisa ( Topic#: 89 )	does any one know of jean shepards home address when he lived in washington nj, i need to know the entire address not just the po box or rd #....please help need this for a trivia contest	0
New Schwartz KIA Information? Date: 02-03-2006 By: ErikRP ( Topic#: 90 )	I was reading Wanda Hickey today and came across the Wimpy Doll story. Shep talks about the newspaper that his mom used to pack the "effluvia" and notes a headline, "B-24 Squadron Hits Sicily in Daylight Raid; Report Success; Three Planes Lost". I wondered if maybe this was some sort of way of honoring Schwartz who Shep says was shot down over Italy. A check of the 'People' database shows a link to a tribute page stating that Schwartz was KIA March 19/44. It also states that he was part of the 463rd Bomb Group. Well, thanks to the internet I was able to actually track down the missions of that squadron (http://www.463rd.org/1944missions.htm). For that date the mission was actually Klagenfurt, Germany. I don't know where the squad was based, but it seems unlikely that if they were heading for Germany that Schwartz would have died "over Italy". This is just what I've found in the last 20 minutes or so, so if anyone has anything to contradict my findings, please feel free to post!	6
New Shepherd CDs Date: 02-07-2006 By: EricOB ( Topic#: 91 )	I received the new X RANDOM FACTOR cd collection yesterday from radioagain.com. Although I only listened the first 2 CDs so far, it is excellent! Very good sound quality and good shows, slick package, and even includes short highlights from Excelsior You Fathead in a printed piece inside. I'll be going back for the other set soon.	2
Lenny Bruce Memorial Date: 02-08-2006 By: Beatnik_Mike ( Topic#: 92 )	I read recently read that Shep spoke at Lenny Bruce's Memorial. Is the text of this address available anywhere? If so, I'd love to read it. Beatnik Mike	1
Problems at Shep Archives?? Date: 02-28-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 97 )	For the last two days, I have tried to download old Shep programs, and I am now getting a very foreboding message "FORBIDDEN"!!!! This is new and I wonder if it is happening to others as well?? I have been registered on that site for approx 2 years....... Cannot locate a contact point to send them an e-mail directly either....[?] http://shep-archives.com/netjuke/search.php?do=search&col=ar.name&val=jean+shepherd In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	29
Which show is this fom and is it available Date: 03-07-2006 By: Paramedic ( Topic#: 99 )	I am looking for one version of the day they bought a Sears Pre Fab House and tried to build it but they all went to the rail yard, took the paper numbers off the pieces so the house never got built. It was funny till a friend moved into a prefab Sears Home and I saw the instructions on installing the "sheetrock" on the back side of the pannels and the number of the beams all stamped onto the pieces. It brought the story to life a bit more. I am stunned how these stories still bring a smnile and memory to me. With the change of generations, the passage of time etc these stories are timeless. I saw them as funny as my parents. I guess he bridged the Generation Gap.	5
Thanks Shep Talk Date: 03-11-2006 By: Paramedic ( Topic#: 100 )	I thank you for the site and the downloads. I look forward to hearing the "new show" every night. It's almost like all those years ago listening nightly. I read the book "Excelsior..." then wait to see what will be on tonights show. I was a NYC EMS Paramedic and used to woirk 3pm-11pm so I was a night owl. I got hurt on the job and still have a problem sleeping before midnight unless I am dead tired. I am on a very limited budget so you will never know how much it means to me to have these shows of the days of my youth when I was not disabled. Thank you again!!!!!!! You'll probably never know what your posting of the shows mean to a lot of us.	0
Village Sunday film Date: 03-11-2006 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 101 )	Just a fun thing if you ever download and watch the film . As you often hear Shep had The Paperbook Gallery as a sponsor . Well you can actually see the storefront about 3/4 of the way through . Just an interesting curiosity. Excelsior Dan	5
Learned to fly Date: 03-12-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 102 )	In the Shep program titled "King Levinski meets Joe Louis", aired 4/1966, Shep sez he is just then learning to fly on a Piper Cherokee 140..This is an advanced plane and it may be assumed he became a pilot in 1966, and likely started his lessons in late 1965 or early '66........... In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
An early radio job?? Date: 03-13-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 103 )	We all take for granted Shep began his professional radio career in his hometown of Hammond Indiana, but according to Shep in two seperate stories, he worked in a small station in Toledo Ohio prior to going to Cinncy! Both stories which mention this tidbit indicate this is NOT a job he wished to brag about, and in the latter telling of the "locked out of the station" incident, he goes into detail about just how bad this station really was. Like his Hammond job, it was a one man operation and "Mr Grubbage" gave the news (with an upper-crust and very English slant), and one of the stations sponsers was White Castle, (or White Tower). One of the things I find very interesting is that Shep claims his original theme song was an old jazz standard called "Running Wild". In the second of these tales, he actually hums the song for his audience, underlining this claim. Shep was definitely into jazz in those days, which lends credibility to this tale. The dates of this tale are:04161960 and again on 09281965.(The former is labelled "Locked out of the station", the latter is called "A tale of old radio days." I suspect all of us have had jobs we prefer to keep secret, (or at least buried in the past), and I suspect this was one of them for Shep. Added later:BTW, Shep must not have stayed at this station long, as he sez he was living at one of those smaller hotels which is "just better than a flophouse", and rented by the week. He sez the hotel was on Huron street.Personally, I feel he left soon after being locked out of the station, (which involved the police!!)[:D] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	3
SHEP ARCHIVES IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Date: 03-16-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 104 )	Hey fellow sufferers...The ARCHIVES is back and "ON THE AIR"!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Where in Chicago? Date: 03-17-2006 By: Dave ( Topic#: 105 )	I see very little about Shep's early years in Chicago. Whereabouts did they live? Did Shep attend school in Chicago, and where? etc.	6
Announcing a new Shep podcast: The Brass Figlagee Date: 03-18-2006 By: ShepCast ( Topic#: 106 )	Hi everyone, After two months of preparation and testing, "The Brass Figlagee," A Jean Shepherd Podcast, is ready for your enjoyment. It's free, it's nightly, and whether you have an MP3 player or not, it's convenient. You can subscribe via iTunes or your preferred RSS client, listen online, download shows manually--we tried to make it as effortless as possible to enjoy Shep every night. There are 59 shows already "in the can" today and about 1400 to go. So, please join us, and spread the word to Shep fans who might enjoy this. Check out "The Brass Figlagee" at [url]http://shepcast.blogspot.com[/url]. Thanks to all the support we've had from this forum. The podcast has been mentioned during the "Shep Archives" discussion. Hopefully a top-level, noticeable announcement will help us be a bit more visible, and spread the word.	3
New section on FLICKLIVES.com Date: 03-21-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 107 )	Jim has put in a new section called "Transportation" which shows some of the stuff which was relevant to Shep. Jim did some detective work and located Sheps' actual airplane registration records! (His plane is still registered*!!!) Who knows, maybe Shep will be the newest "Elvis sighting" at the airports??[?] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Adrian Shepherd Date: 03-23-2006 By: BigPaul ( Topic#: 108 )	I think it was about 3 or 4 years ago that Adrian Shepherd first made her presence known on this forum. I have not visited this forum in about 3 years. However I did have some correspondence with Adrian. I would like to send her a little note. However I have lost her Email Address. If anyone knows how I can get in touch with her, I would appreciate a response. Thank You BigPaul	0
It's not always so! Date: 03-23-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 109 )	I downloaded a fresh Shep episode which was dated 11/03/72..It did not have the usual title, and was only labelled "WOR".. I cross-referanced the date from Jim Clavin's database, and this date is supposed to be "Marijuana soup, Motor pool, and Chicken plucking" I listened to the entire program and while it is not a program from any other date I have ever heard of, it is NOT the show listed on the data base. The show is actually about "The triple feature syndrome", and Sheps' crush on Ann Rutherford !!(Excellent and funny program by the way, but I suspect the database is correct, and the date on the program itself is in error.)[8D] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	2
The X Random Factor Date: 03-24-2006 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 110 )	I was listening to "The Grandstand Syndrome" from the X Random Factor CD (which is quite good, by the way, along w/Don't Be A Leaf), in which Shep talked about the University of Chicago football team. I seem to remember that the first nuclear chain reaction occured, supervised by Enrico Fermi, underneath the stands at Stagg Field in 1942. That popped in my mind while listening to the show. That would have been the ultimate "secret weapon" for the football team[:D]	0
New offerings from MAX!!!! Date: 03-24-2006 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 111 )	Just received word Max is releasing his newest offerings on quality CD's, and most of the programs are new, complete with the original airchecks and commercials, (and slight static just as if you were listening to Shep live right now!!). There is a variety of programming available and Max is not being chintzy whatsoever, with his CD's offering approx 12 different programs in each set.. The price is lower than other offerings and these are not ripped off the Archives, (like certain ones on E-bay, etc.).. While some of the programs have been heard before, these recordings are from master tapes taken at the time on a reel-to-reel, by a true fan of Shep. Max has also hinted that he may be able to supply us with further offerings in the future!! EXCELSIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Army service Date: 03-28-2006 By: mjnyc ( Topic#: 112 )	The beginning and start dates of the man's US Army service (July 1942 & Dec. 1945) beg a question I've never heard or seen asked: why admitted so late and discharged so early?	12
ive got a secret.. Date: 03-31-2006 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 113 )	Does anyone know if tape or it's equivalent exist of the episode of "I've got a secret"game show exists in which Jean was a panelist . He refers to it in a episode I just listened to I believe called "various topics" 1975 which I downloaded fm the jeanshepherdproject .Anybody .......	12
digging the weones Date: 04-05-2006 By: maurice9 ( Topic#: 116 )	can anyone tell me the story and where to find the one gene read years ago on the radio "Digging the weones " about digging upo our civilization years from now Please! Help Email me at Mauricemahler@aol.com	4
Poem of the Day - About.com Date: 04-12-2006 By: markclark ( Topic#: 119 )	Today's poem of the day on About.com will ring true to all true Shep believers: http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Excelsior.htm Made me smile!	1
Hessville map Date: 04-20-2006 By: Bill Bucko ( Topic#: 121 )	Ken (wvcogs) has very kindly posted online two versions of the large Hessville map I compiled: The map leaves out only the eastern and extreme southern parts of Hessville. It represents the area as it was in the late '50s to early '60s. Though of interest mostly to local area buffs, I think it has two uses for Shep fans: (1) When a Shep-related place is occasionally identified (such as The Pin Bowl), the map can be used to locate it very precisely; and (2) I've recreated the precise layout of both the old Harding portable and the newer '50s Harding (see Legend near upper right corner); this will be new to most of you. And I've updated the Harding school complex in light of the rare old photos that have recently come to light (thanks to Jim R and the webmaster of www.hhs59.com), and also the satellite photo Ken supplied. I've included only the flagpole that shows in one of the photos ... though I still seem to remember there being one on the Cleveland Street side, darn it! Buildings and empty lots are not to exact scale. I tried, but mostly buildings show up as just as big as their label. And though I've used some of Ken's information as well as my own, the map shows only highlights, and is not complete. For anyone interested in the southernmost part of Hessville, former resident svea3 has a wealth of information. Bill Warren G. Harding Class of '63	0
america of george ade Date: 04-25-2006 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 122 )	I was just wondering what other fans of Shep thought of this book. I just got it out of my library and was looking for feedback as to what other readers felt about it .	5
Shep sightings ? Date: 05-04-2006 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 125 )	I was watching the MSNBC show Keith Olberman which I only surfed onto cuz of IMUS . He ended his show (the day before the illegal boycott) "Keep your knees loose" I don't know how common this phrase in everyday conversation . It made me wonder.... Also South Park ( And I state I am not an every episode viewer )They had Al gore in an episode about the dangers of Manpigbear where twice he shouted out excelsior! An uncommon exclamation and again it made me wonder . Any thoughts ? Comments . Thanx Dan	4
Lois Nettleton... Date: 05-16-2006 By: Ralph Zig Tyko ( Topic#: 128 )	...Any one have an idea about what became of her? Ralph Zig Tyko	3
1956 Recordings ? Date: 05-27-2006 By: 4MONTAGE ( Topic#: 129 )	It was 1956. I was 11 years old. My family lived in the small (then remote) town of Lakewood NJ. I couldn't sleep. I had the urge to listen to some talk on the radio. It was after 1 o'clock in the morning. I turned on the AM Radio in the room that I shared with my brother. Turning the dial, the only station that I heard with someone talking was WOR. Someone with a light, gravely voice was talking about his addiction to papaya juice from Gray's Papaya in Manhattan. I kept waiting for the other guest or host to comment; no one did. After a while I realized, with astonishment, that this individual was talking to himself. Further amazing was that he continued to talk about his addiction (which I couldn't make out as fact or fiction) for 3 hours, until 4 AM. Shepherd. I was hooked. Soon I bought by mail a tiny crystal radio set from Johnson Smith Novelties. It had a ground cord with clamp. I found that the ground clamp worked if I connected it to the metal reading lamp above my bed. Now my brother was no longer disturbed by my nocturnal habits. It turned out that the crystal radio only got two stations: one in Charlotte NC for some reason, and the other WOR with its 50,000 watt antenna. Shepherd was my 1-4 AM god. Some years later I spoke to Shepherd briefly on 2 occasions: In 1968, while I was in law school, I was a guest on Barry Farber, WOR, and met Shepherd after the show. He was at the elevator with a gorgeous chick dressed in skin-tight white pants, to whom he was paying no particular attention at all (he seemed bored). The other occasion was around 1971 at one of his personal appearances, after which he took questions. On both occasions I asked him only 1 thing: Were there recordings available of his show -- did WOR tape them? He answered, "The broadcasts are not taped. There are no recordings of them." "Do you really mean to say," I said, "that all this wonderful stuff has simply been lost on the airways of time?" "Yeah," he said, seemingly unconcerned, "though I think someone at the University of Arizona made some tapes." I have only now discovered, much to my delight, that Shepherd was wrong. Thank God for whoever made those recordings. But my question is this: The existent recordings seem to date from about 1961 on. Has anyone made any recordings of Shepherd's 3-hour monologues that he did 1-4 AM in the late 1950's on WOR? Gosh I'd like to find that 3-hour addicted-to-papaya-juice 1956 recording. [:(] Larry	4
Shep podcast for his birthday Date: 06-15-2006 By: jimjbeat ( Topic#: 130 )	I do a weekly podcast and I'd like to do a special show on July 26 to commemorate Jean Shepherd's birthday. I'm looking for suggestions of any songs that might be appropriate - especially anything that references him or his work. btw I wrote a song about Shep called "Jean Shepherd" that you can listen to or download for free at www.purevolume.com/jimtesta Jim Testa www.jerseybeat.com	6
any recordings from Limelight or concerts online? Date: 07-05-2006 By: ArtL7 ( Topic#: 135 )	I'm a journalist who profiled Jean Shepherd when I was at Columbia Journalism School in '73 (the article, alas, remained unpublished -- but was my thesis.) I didn't keep accessible (if I remember correctly) the tape of the three-hour show at a junior college I saw him do (standing on top of a converted cafeteria table to do his set.) Shep may have limited my taping or I thought there'd always be recorded shows, but I didn't realize what a treasure that show would be enough to keep the tape available as a prized commodity. Did anyone ever tape the two-hour Limelight shows or college concert gigs he did? And is that available online as an Mp3 or elsewhere as CD-Roms or other trading mechanisms? I've just discovered Shep on the Web, and plugged some sites you all know at www.arthurlevine.com, my blog.	5
sheps radio collection Date: 07-24-2006 By: zzesp ( Topic#: 136 )	in a 1975 program on the history of radio shep mentions he collects old radios( and that he'd like to start a museum for old radios and radio history) . does anyone know what hapopened to his collection of radios?	0
Slob Art Date: 07-25-2006 By: murdock ( Topic#: 137 )	I saw in the newspaper today in ASK AMY Readers Share the most hideous handmade gifts they ever received. A CHICKEN TREE 5 feet tall person placed on front porch. When friend who gave this saw it suggested he needed "A Pair" of them one on each side to attain more symmetrical balance. Person is praying she forgets this idea. Another was a BATHROOM COW a sweet mother in law who loves to crochete handicrafts made a brightly colored cows head to sit on back of toiletand stuffed with spare roll of toilet paper to maintain it's shape. FANCY FLYSWATTER A family friend made beaufiful crafts but left them scratching their heads with this one. Wound yarn around the edges of the handle of a plastic flyswatter with plastic or silk flowers weaved into the meshwork. Person was sorry to say they used it to swat flies...after removing the flowers of course-they slowed it down. MILK JUG PURSE A 12 year old for her birthday from Grandma received a purse made out of plastic milk jugs. She cut up milk jugs, punched holes in the plastic and then sewed them together with bright multicolored yarn. The shoulder strap was made from the brass chain you use to hang ceiling lamps.The girls Mother still remembers the look on her face when she opened it not to mention how she managed to show gratitude to the Grandmother for thinking of her. UGLY GIFT CLOSET A closet used to store ugly gifts that could easily be taken out when giver came to visit and whatever doodad was needed would be put back after visit. All these hideous gifts made me think of Sheps Slob Art. I'm sure like all, I've received my share of these gifts.	7
a salute to shep on his birthday - podcast! Date: 07-27-2006 By: jimjbeat ( Topic#: 138 )	On what would have been Shep's 85th birthday yesterday, I put together a podcast with some show clips, a few songs, and segments of an interview with Gene Bergmann, author of "Excelsior You Fathead!" For those unfamiliar with the term, a podcast is simply a large mp3 file. You download it the same way you'd download a song or any media file. You can then listen to it on your computer, burn it to a CD, or copy it to an MP3 player (like an iPod.) The file is available for free download at http://jerseybeat.libsyn.com I'd love to hear your comments. It was a labor of love. As former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins once said, I can't imagine growing up without Jean Shepherd. Jim Testa www.jerseybeat.com	0
Jack Morton's sister Irene Date: 08-13-2006 By: peterhammill ( Topic#: 141 )	On his 10/8/1969 radio program (Two Kinds of Education), Jean speaks of Jack Morton and his sister Irene. Jean goes on to say that Irene Morton changed her name and became a famous actress and was living in Spain and married to a film producer. Anybody have any idea which actress he was speaking of? larry miller	0
jean shep archives Date: 08-31-2006 By: rcknhrse ( Topic#: 143 )	i did not know until after i bought the dvd mp3;s from earth station that that web site existed,never the less,i am sampling the 746 mp3's looking for particular shows.i had all his syndicated shows at least the ones broadcast on weta fm in washington dc on reel to reel tapes but they were destroyed in a fire. i am looking for a show where he went off on tv talk shows and went on a proloned "hindustan"rift but only using the word quack.i call it the quack quack song. anther involves working the china clipper in an army mess in which he breaks a bunch of coffee cups and blames it on dobbs. if you know the identity of these shows on the archive list i would appreciate it very much	0
Shep Stuff Offered Date: 10-07-2006 By: jmosbrook ( Topic#: 145 )	Radio Again at www.radioagain.com/ is offering some Shepherd CDs and a book which includes a chapter about Shep. Here is a blurb I received: NEW BARGAIN BOOK RELEASE Our web site also features some very interesting publisher overstock books at tremendously discounted pricing. One title recently added is the hardcover edition of SERIOUSLY FUNNY: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s by Gerald Nachman offered now at the sale price of only $9.95 (originally priced at $29.95). In this book Nachman tells the stories and analyzes the comedy of the brightest stars of those years, including a very interesting chapter on Jean Shepherd) such as Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Bob and Ray, Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Phyllis Diller, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Woody Allen, Bob Newhart, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. Joe Mosbrook	0
Wellcome Date: 10-20-2006 By: n/a ( Topic#: 151 )	MESSAGE	2
Shep's Trivia Segments on his shows Date: 10-22-2006 By: DawnieWV ( Topic#: 152 )	I am told that Shep had a specific name for the trivia he did on his shows. If someone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm doing a quest and this is one the of the questions. "Ol' Shep used to use trivia quite a bit on his shows, but he called it by what name?" I have tried "the vast file of trivia", and it's saying that is not the answer. So if someone can help me.... Dawnie	4
Christmas Story Date: 11-14-2006 By: murdock ( Topic#: 153 )	In order of popularity from Christmas Story I would say the 'leg lamp is number one. Red Rider BB gun #2 Where would you say it goes from there? 1.) Leg Lamp 2.) Red Rider BB gun 3.)[?] 4.)[?] 5.)[?]	0
A Christmas Story with Bunnies Date: 11-14-2006 By: umtrr-author ( Topic#: 154 )	Looking for the Cingular "You'll Run The Bill Up!" ad on YouTube, I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbAI8tf_E5E Bunnies act out A Christmas Story (in 30 seconds)... George in Ellison Park, NY http://www.irwinsjournal.com	0
"You'll Run The Bill Up!" Date: 11-14-2006 By: umtrr-author ( Topic#: 155 )	Watching Deal Or No Deal last night (speaking of "Slob Art"), I saw the Cingular Wireless "You'll Run The Bill Up!" ad for the first time. For those who haven't seen it, there are stills on the flicklives.com site (just go "Home" in the top right menu here). It is a takeoff on A Christmas Story with "Ralphie" wanting a cell phone instead of a Red Ryder BB Gun. But he's told, "You'll Run The Bill Up!" Even "Santa" gets in the act. The ad is a faithful, and I would say, affectionate, re-creation of several scenes from the movie. I suppose it could be called a "sellout"-- and if so, who's doing the selling and who's making the money?-- but it brought me a smile. Cingular's cell phone service already had its chance with me-- I "fired" them-- but I like the ad! George in Ellison Park, NY http://www.irwinsjournal.com	2
Shep theme song as cell phone ring tone? Date: 11-21-2006 By: FrankCarey ( Topic#: 156 )	Anybody know how to do it?	0
Jean Shepherd Archive - Download? Date: 12-03-2006 By: Ted ( Topic#: 167 )	Hello- I could not find a way to download multiple mp3's at the following URL: http://www.shep-archives.com/netjuke/ Did I miss something obvious? Or, is this by design? If so, are there other places that mirror this site? I checked out iTunes and found The Brass Figlagee which has 101 shows (their blog says they have 300, not sure why the difference). Also found earth station, which has 700+ shows on two DVD's, but even this is less than half the material listed on the archives. Basically, I would like a way to download to my iPod and, as it were, take Shep on the road. Thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated. Best, -ted	1
Radio audio collection Date: 12-12-2006 By: murdock ( Topic#: 173 )	For a stocking stuffer I asked my wife for one of Sheps radio audio CD's.[:p] Not sure which one she ordered but looking forward to hearing it.	0
Tv? Date: 12-22-2006 By: Ellen Minyard ( Topic#: 175 )	Hi All, I lived in Illinois growing up, and I seem to remember Jean Shepherd on tv. I'm thinking it was just stories, and I think he was sitting next to a barn or something. Am I crazy?	1
TBS has 24 hrs of "A Christmas Story" Date: 12-25-2006 By: Tom J ( Topic#: 177 )	I'm sure most of you guys know it, but just in case... TBS is having a 24 hr. marathon showing of "A Christmas Story." It started last night at 7:00 PM CST. Tom Hammond High Class of 1967	0
Where can I buy DVDs of Shep's PBS series? Date: 12-25-2006 By: bjlowe ( Topic#: 178 )	The only DVD I can find to purchase is "A Christmas Story." What about "Jean Shepherd's America" and the other movies and TV features? Any help truly appreciated! BJ in Houston	1
SCAM E-MAIL FROM HERE Date: 01-06-2007 By: murdock ( Topic#: 183 )	I received a scam e-mail today which the heading read "Sent From Shep Talk Forum - sheptalk.com by emma55 " Emanuel Toochi claims to have $9,200,000 left to him in an estate. Want's to transfer funds to your account and later split monies. I'd love to hear the Shep tell the story of this and how utterly ridicules it is. Plus how any fool could ever fall for it. [xx(][8D]	2
Shep & Cars, Old Tapes Date: 01-06-2007 By: fbarrett ( Topic#: 185 )	Friends: Having been a loyal listener during the late 1960s, and having read his books, I recently re-discovered Shep via the CDs now available. I also just started Excelsior, You Fathead!, so I look forward to learning more about the guy who helped shape my psyche. Being a car guy, I'm especially interested in his references to such. I recall his articles in Car & Driver (if anyone wants photocopies, I could probably be pestered into providing them in limited quantities). When I met Shep, at the 1968 New Hope Auto Show, in Pennsylvania, he became the first of only three people I've ever asked for an autograph. Yes, he gave it to me, and I probably still have it somewhere in "the vast effluvia." Recently I realized that I still had a few open-reel tapes of maybe a dozen of his WOR shows circa 1968-70. Last night I dug out my old open-reel tape deck, so now I have to get it working and see how I can convert the tapes into a more useful format, like CD. If and when that happens, maybe somebody on this list can archive them somewhere better than in my attic. Frank Barrett (first post, so please excuse any gaffes) Frank Barrett	4
Hope You're OK, Jim Date: 01-09-2007 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 186 )	Jim, I received the news that you're having surgery when I checked the link to Max's show. I hope everything goes well & that you're doing OK. Ta & G'd Bless, diskojoe	5
Another Scam E-Mail Date: 01-13-2007 By: murdock ( Topic#: 187 )	I received another scam e-mail this morning with $17.5 millon dollars involved from: You received the following message from: nu77 (n_idaah2@yahoo.com)At: http://sheptalk.com/ I can't type what I replied in the largest font in here. [}:)]	4
I think he really didn't like kids Date: 01-24-2007 By: chasmo ( Topic#: 194 )	I'm 10 years old, see, in Philadelphia in 1963. Down the stairs from my bed room I can hear, drifting up from my Old Man's room, the sounds of this lunatic talking on the radio. I don't get it. Then the next year, I'm 11, and I start tuning into WOR AM at 10:15 weeknights and, soon, I am hooked. For the next three years, fighting to get a clear signal on my cheap AM radio, I listen every night from 10:15-11:00 as I go to bed -- 10:30 - 11:30 on Saturdays from the Limelight. I learn about Hammond and Flick and Kissel as I fall asleep to Shepherd. Then, the big day comes. It's 1966, and I'm 13, and Shepherd is scheduled to appear on a live local talk show. Excited beyond belief, I tune in to the show with my mother -- it's day time, and the Old Man is at work -- and the host -- I forget his name and the name of the show -- is talking to Shepherd. It's the first time I've ever seen what he looks like. And, the host says that Shepherd will be taking calls! And I know just what I want to say. Dashing to the phone, I dial the number. And wait. And suddenly, I'm on the air. What is my question for Mr. Shepherd? And I say into the phone, with all the assurance my adolescent voice can muster, "Excelsior, you fathead!". There's a pause. The host looks puzzled. Shepherd shrugs. Maybe they just didn't hear me. I mean, Shep will get it. He'll be pleased that I'm so hip to him. I repeat it, louder this time. "Excelsior, you fathead!" The host is still puzzled, but he's an non-initiate. But Shepherd is shrugging as if he has no idea of what I'm talking about and I'm just some incoherent nut. I gup the phone. Embarrassed and depressed. I guess he was probably hawking "In God We Trust..." and I didn't say, "Hey Shep, tell about your book and where can we buy it". 13-year olds don't yet understand WHY celebrities appear on these shows, and it ain't to entertain or to compliment. He heard me,all right. Chasmo	3
Jim! Date: 01-30-2007 By: randall ( Topic#: 195 )	Does anybody know how Jim is doing post bypass? I haven't heard from him in weeks...	8
Pardon the Interruption Date: 02-07-2007 By: svea3 ( Topic#: 196 )	Does anyone watch PTI on the Sports Channel. Wilbon is from the southside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern. Yesterday I noticed that the LAMP was there over his sholder. See, Shepherd is everywhere. Now we should have come up with the idea of the selling of the lamp! and maybe a tour of the REAL house in Hessville.[:D] Svea3 or Linda	3
Shep's Brother Date: 02-10-2007 By: Mark Miller ( Topic#: 197 )	Like many of you I grew up in the New York Area. New Jersey in my case and listened to Shep all during my young years. I attended many of his live performances at Seton Hall, Princeton, Fairleigh Dickenson, Rutgers and other places in the area. I was back in Jersey to see my parents having driven there from Wisconsin. To pass the time during the long drive I loaded my iPod with as many podcasts from The Brass Fliglagee. Sorry if I messed up the spelling there. I listened to his old shows on the whole trip and decided to drive by his old neighborhood in Hammond on my way home. All the sudden I felt like a stalker. Anyway, one question came to mind. Does anyone know what happened to Shep's brother Randy? Is he still under the day bed?	4
New to Shep Date: 02-11-2007 By: emttt ( Topic#: 198 )	Hi, I am new to the whole Shep phenomenon. I have loved ACS since it came out, but only recently learned about the man behind the story. I want to start collecting Shep's books and shows. Where should I start? Are the mp3's on ebay worth the money; how about the dvd's of his PBS shows? Any help would be appreciated.	7
A surprise from Max Date: 02-19-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 201 )	I had purchased the triple DVD (video) pack from Max, and having saved one to watch this past weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to find that as a "bonus", right after the advertised and labelled program on one of the discs, were excerpts from the "Shepherd's Pie" series. These excerpts are almost wholly very close-ups of Shep, and he is talking right TO YOU, just like he did on the radio programs. It's really nice to see the man as he is talking to us. It gives a face to the programs,in animation, as pictures just could not do. I think it would be wrong to say just which of the discs have the "bonus". Maybe I need to go over the discs again. Maybe there were "bonus" clips on the others as well?[8D] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	4
Drowning rats at steel mill story???? Date: 02-20-2007 By: BurchSeymour ( Topic#: 202 )	Hi, new guy here. I remeber hearing Shep tell a story along these lines: At the steel mill he was assigned to a group who had been doing the same office job for so long they got done with their actual work in a few hours and had the rest of the night shift to goof off. They played a game using rulers (or yardsticks) on the edge of a desk with a bit of food on the end and a bucket of water below. The goal was to get rats to fall into the bucket. I have several MP3 DVDs full of Shep's old radio shows, but have not got the time to listen to all of them right now. Does anyone with an MP3 collection recognize that story? Any ideas on which particular Shepisode I might look to find it? I'd love to hear that one again. Thanks -Burch	2
missing show: Laughing Larry Doyle Date: 03-09-2007 By: ddyer ( Topic#: 203 )	This show is probably not in the archives, or at least the part I recall fondly was not prominant enough to be in the index. The show I'd love to hear again concerns "Laughing Larry Doyle" and old time baseball player, who was judged to be too old to play in the annual old-timers game. Anyone got it?	0
Search Shep's shows by text! Date: 03-11-2007 By: ShepCast ( Topic#: 205 )	Hi folks, After reading of ddyer's search for a show about "Laughing Larry Doyle," I found that all the shows in the podcast [url="http://shepcast.blogspot.com"]The Brass Figlagee[/url] can be searched by text! I tried it tonight, and I think it's very impressive. The PodZinger site uses an MP3-to-text program to convert the shows to text, [url="http://www.podzinger.com/results.jsp?s=PZSID_pods_pod5_0_8_0006"]which can then be searched on this PodZinger page[/url]. The translation isn't perfect, but I did find a handful of "Larry"s and "Doyle"s. No "Laughing Larry Doyle" though, sorry ddyer. Anyway, if any of you fans are looking for a specific phrase or subject in a Shepherd show, try the search link above. I've been adding a show a night for 15 months, so I'm about 1/3 through the Shep Archives material, and will keep going until I've got it all uploaded (deo volente). ShepCast PS> "The Brass Figlagee" podcast is a labor of love... I won't sell anything, I don't attach my real name to it (because it's not my show, it's Jean's), and the one "click here to buy the Shep book" link I have actually donates to Jim's excellent site here. I really do it to make Jean's shows more accessible, for free, to anyone on the internet. Podcasting makes it very convenient for listeners using nearly any computer, for old fans and new fans alike. And getting one show a day is almost like reliving the old days. So please, spread the word.	0
WWII air battles with German planes Date: 03-11-2007 By: lollapalloo ( Topic#: 206 )	Can anyone tell me how to find a WOR (mid-sixties) show where he described and provided sound effects for an air battle with German planes? My husband and I laughed til we cried! Wish we could hear it again. Thanks,	1
limelight spotted Date: 03-17-2007 By: jbro ( Topic#: 208 )	I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this (or pointed it out in ths forum), but I was watching the 1974 Robert Redford movie "3 Days of the Condor" the other day. It is shot entirely on location in New York (maybe some Hoboken mixed in there too), and during the opening credits sequence, Redford's character is shown riding his little motorbike through Manhattan -- and the first shot of this shows him passing The Limelight! As this club wasn't long for the world, it's nice to have a shot of Shep's old digs preserved for posterity.	3
hoagie show Date: 03-28-2007 By: jam ( Topic#: 212 )	Any of your kind Shepaholics recall what show he did he recollection of Philly and the hoagie? I heard it back in '72 on a Miami radio station where he followed Larry King (yes, THAT King) so he was prob on WOR. Excelsior! hoagie...hoagie	0
Hessville Visit Date: 03-30-2007 By: Mark Miller ( Topic#: 213 )	A few weeks back I was driving from my home in Madison, Wisconsin to visit my folks in New Jersey. I was one of the many who listened to Shep on WOR. So I went through Chicago and just started down RT. 80 East when I saw the Kennedy Ave. Exit for Hammond. I happened to be in the correct lane so I took the exit and headed up Kennedy North. I drove until I saw Cleveland on the right and made the turn. There in that very distinctive intersection was Shep's childhood home along with the weird house on the left. I continued down Cleveland to the Warren G. Harding school. I had seen pictures of all this stuff but wanted to see it in person. I drove around the neighborhood a bit and also drove down the alley behind. So, I decided enough was enough and headed back on my journey. When I got back to Kennedy I decided to see Flick's Tap. I hung a right and there on the right it was. What the Heck, i parked and went in for a beer. I was sitting there downing a cool one when all the sudden I got the spooky feeling that I was stalking a ghost. The hair on the back of my neck stood up and I swallowed the last of the beer and I headed out. Back down Kennedy, past the Jean Shephard Community Center and onto RT. 80. I wonder what Shep mght have thought of RT. 80 so close to his house and how if you follow it east you end up in New Jersey. The Garden State, where he spent so much of his life and regailed us with his views on it. I think he is right. It is the most American of all states. I guess Hammond and Jersey are connected in more ways than one. Mark MIller	1
Don't open from "N/A" Date: 03-30-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 214 )	Scam e-mail and postings on this forum by user "N/A"..It is all commercial linking......[:(!][:(!][:(!] In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Newbie Introduction: WOR Circa 1970-1975 Date: 03-31-2007 By: Steve Sikes-Nova ( Topic#: 215 )	Excelsior! I am one of those folks who listened to Jean on WOR-New York during the later period of his time there; from appx. 1970-1975 when I left for college at SUNY-Binghamton. His show was the highlight of my weekday evenings and I remain a huge fan to this day. I have developed a pretty good radio reputation myself as both a webcaster and enthusiastic amateur music interviewer as you will see below. I work as a full-time teacher/therapist in the Tidewater area of southeastern Virginia. My wife and I have happily lived here for over 20 years now. I am very glad to connect with other Shep fans. I find myself playing my 'fatheadcentral collection' that I received a bunch of years ago in my truck on the way to and from work more than I listen to music or to National Public Radio these days. Best wishes, [:)]Steve Steve Sikes-Nova Newgrass, Prog & More! WWWeb Radio & Interviews N,P&M! WWWeb Radio - 2,000 Progressive and Eclectic listeners Strong WorldWide! http://www.live365.com/stations/virginiaprograsser http://www.myspace.com/virginiaprograsser http://www.live365.com/stations/virginiaprograsser/schedule/ - this link shows the station's weekly schedule. Be on the lookout for new and archived 'Conversations From the Farmhouse', my ongoing interview series with the legends and aspiring legends that make the music. 2006-7 interviews include: Carl Palmer (legendary drummer for progresssive rock's Emerson, Lake & Palmer/and Asia) Sam Bush (New Grass Revival - KY Music Hall of Fame), Dr. Pete Wernick (Hot Rize; former President of the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. in Nashville TN), Darrell Scott (2x Grammy-nominated American artist), Ian Anderson (legendary leader of progressive rock's Jethro Tull), Jamie Hartford (son of the legendary John Hartford), railroad earth (one of the leading 'jambands'), Tommy Emmanuel (probably the greatest acoustic guitar virtuoso in the world today - Grammy nominated 2007), Chris Squire (legendary bass guitarist for progressive rock's Yes), and + about 25 more! ****You might also be interested to know that I am the webmaster for the ground-breaking new music television concept's (theONE.tv) Official myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theonetv http://theONE.tv Stephen Nardelli, one of the principal owners and the Executive Director of Programming for theONE.TV (to be launched worldwide this month!) is a VERY good friend of mine. "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop	0
Past mailing addresses Date: 04-02-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 216 )	If one might borrow a time-travel device, here are some of Shep's past mailing addresses.: 5301 Ladyfinger Lake Rd, Sanibel Fl 33957 PO Box 343, Oakland, Maine 04963 9 N Birch Rd, Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33304 450 Fashion Ave. Ste 2701, New York, N.Y. 10123-2701 (His studio). P.O. Box 1186 Ft Myers, Fl 33902 In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Last Dance Date: 04-02-2007 By: Mark Miller ( Topic#: 217 )	Does anyone know what happened to Shep's mortal remains? Buried, cremated? Mark Miller	1
Very sad news: Bob Clark killed in car crash Date: 04-04-2007 By: raccoonradio ( Topic#: 218 )	I put this in this category because it applies to both A Christmas Story and My Summer Story/It Runs in the Family... The director of both films, Bob Clark, and his son Ariel were killed in a car crash early today on the Pacific Coast Highway. L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-ex-crash4mar04,1,4759212.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo "Film director Robert Clark and his son Ariel were killed in an early morning collision along a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, authorities said. Clark directed the classic holiday film "A Christmas Story" in 1983 and was also the producer of the "Porkys" films, along with about two dozen other features. "The crash, which occurred about 2:30 a.m., left the highway closed between Temescal Canyon Road and West Sunset Boulevard until 10:40 a.m., while police investigated at the scene, said Kevin Maiberger, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Police said Clark, 67, and his son, who was 22, were found dead at the scene in the silver Infiniti."	3
Forum housecleaning Date: 04-07-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 223 )	Apparently some "junk" had intruded into the forums, enmasse, and Mr Clavin is doing spring housecleaning early..Too bad their will always be creeps to mess up good things.......... Thank you Mr Clavin............... In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	3
Jean Shepherd, Sr., family history Date: 04-10-2007 By: Wallace T. ( Topic#: 225 )	Shep's paternal roots run deep in rural Indiana, and before that, Kentucky, New York, Delaware, and Ireland. His interest in George Ade may have come from sharing similar roots in the Hoosier State. His great-grandfather was born in the same county in Kentucky that Abraham Lincoln was born. Genealogical research indicates that the Old Man's family lived in the vicinity of Terre Haute, Indiana, for several generations. The Old Man's father was Emmet (or Emmitt) Shepherd, born in June 1850 and raised on a farm in Vigo County, Indiana, of which Terre Haute is the county seat. His mother was Flora Alvis Shepherd, whom Emmet married in 1881. She was a native of Indiana, with her father, Richard Alvis, a native of Kentucky born of parents themselves born in Kentucky. Emmet and Flora had three children: Glenna (b. 1886), Paul (b. March 16, 1894), and Jean, Sr. (b. 1899 or 1902). Emmet's father was (Thomas) Fielding (or Fielden or Fulden) Shepherd. Fielding was born in 1811 in Hardin County, Kentucky; his father, Thomas Shepherd, was born in Ireland and his mother, Elizabeth Cowan (or Blackburn) Shepherd, was born in Kentucky. His brother, James Washington Shepherd, was born on January 5, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, who was coincidentally born in the same year. He died on March 5, 1883, and is buried in the Shepherd Cemetery in Sheppardsville, Vigo County, Indiana. Land for this cemetery was donated by James Washington Shepherd, and there are 1,177 persons buried there, including 33 Shepherds. Fielding was a farmer and was recorded in the US Census in Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1840, and in Vigo County in censuses from 1850 to 1880. He married Hester (Esther) Hedges in Vermillion County on March 12, 1835. She was born in New York in 1811 and died in Vigo County, Indiana, in 1883; her parents were natives of Delaware. Fielding Shepherd's father, Thomas Shepherd, was born in Ireland and his mother, Elizabeth Cowan (or Blackburn) Shepherd, was born in Kentucky. His brother, James Washington Shepherd, was born on January 5, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, who was born in the same year. The Thomas Shepherd family migrated to the Wabash Valley in Indiana around 1812. Here is information from Ancestry.com and other web sites: 1930 US Census, Chicago, Cook County, IL 11253 S. Hermosa Avenue Paul K. Shepherd, head, male. white, 36, married, first marriage at 30, born Illinois, parents born Illinois, occupation salesman, milk, renter, $60 per month, veteran of World War I Louise H. Shepherd, wife, white, female, 32, married, first marriage at 26, born Indiana, father born Indiana, mother born Ohio, no occupation Louise may be the "aunt, drunken" on the flicklives Web site. 11253 S. Hermosa Avenue, Chicago, IL, is 15.9 miles northwest of 2907 Cleveland Street, Hammond, IN, where Jean Shepherd, Sr. and Jr. lived in 1930. Like Jean Shepherd, Sr., Paul worked for a milk company in 1930. 1920 US Census, Chicago, Cook County, IL 5118 S. Calumet Avenue Flora Shepherd 57, head, white, female, widowed, born Indiana, parents born Indiana, no occupation Paul Shepherd 26, son, white, male, single, born Indiana, parents born Indiana, clerk, office Jean Shepherd 18, son, white, male, single, born Indiana, parents born Indiana, clerk, office Flora may be "Grandma Flora" described as "hooked on tonic" on the flicklives Web site. The location is near Washington Park, mentioned in the Studs Lonigan trilogy. World War I draft records (June 5, 1918): Paul Kenneth Shepherd, 24, 5118 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, IL, born March 16, 1894, birthplace Vermillion, IL, occupation, clerk, Albert Dickinson Company, 2750 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL. He stated that he has no mother, father, or sister or brother under the age of 12 who is dependent on him for support. He is single, Caucasian, short, slender, brown hair, brown eyes, not bald, and without any disabilities. He reports three years prior military service with the 7th Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, with the rank of corporal. Vermilion, Edgar County, Illinois, Paul Shepherd's birthplace, is immediately west of Vigo County, Indiana, where his (and Jean Shepherd, Senior's) father, Emmitt (or Emmet) Shepherd, lived. Vermilion is about 20 miles northwest of Terre Haute, the Vigo County seat. 1910 US Census, Chicago, Cook County, IL 6605 S. Union Avenue Emmitt E Shephard 69, Male, married 25 years, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born New York, occupation Salesman, livestock Flora E Shephard 47, Female, married 25 years, had 4 children, 3 still alive, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, m. born Pennsylvania, Paul K Shephard 16, Male, single. born Illinois, parents born Indiana, at school Jean P Shephard 8, Male, single. born Illinois, parents born Indiana, at school This location is within 1� miles of Washington Park mentioned in the Studs Lonigan trilogy 1900 US Census, Chicago, Cook County, IL 4429 Lowe Avenue Emmell Sheppard 49, white, male, born June 1850, 49, m 19 years, born Indiana, parents born New York, occupation Horse trader, renter Flora Sheppard 38, w. female, born May 1862, m. 19 years, born Indiana, parents born Pennsylvania, 3 children, 2 alive Glenna Sheppard 14, white, female, born Dec. 1885, born Kansas, parents born Indiana, at school Hall Sheppard 6, white, male, born Mar. 1894, born Illinois, parents born Indiana Glenna may be the "Aunt Glenn" married to Uncle Tom, the bootlegger who "ran off" according to the flicklives Web site. 1880 US Census, Fayette Twp., Vigo County, IN Fulden Shepherd 69, white, male, married, farmer, born Kentucky, father born Ireland, mother born Kentucky Ester Shepherd 63, white, female, married, wife, housekeeper, born New York, father born New York, mother born Delaware Orra Shepherd 24, white, male, married, son, helps on farm, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born New York Amilia Shepherd 30, w female, married, daughter in law, housekeeper, born Minnesota, father born Indiana, mother b New York Emmet Shepherd 29, white, male, single, son, laborer, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born New York There is a Melvin Shepherd, 44, white, male, farmer, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born New York living nearby. The Indiana Marriage Collection shows a Charles N. Shepherd marrying a Flora N. Alvis in Vigo County, Indiana, on April 7, 1881. 1880 US Census, Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, IN Richard Alvis 60, head, white, male, married, laborer, b, Kentucky, parents born Kentucky Susan Alvis 56, wife, white, female, married, keeping house, born Indiana, parents' birthplace not known Albert Alvis 15, son, white, male, single, laborer, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born Indiana Flora Alvis 18, daughter, white, female, single, housework, born Indiana, father born Kentucky, mother born Indiana 1870 US Census, Fayette Township, Vigo County, IN Fielding Shepherd 59, white, male, married, farmer, born Kentucky, owns land valued at $20K and personal property valued at $2K. Esther Shepherd 53, white, female, married, wife, keeps house, born New York Orra B. Shepherd 14, white, male, single, son, at home, born Indiana Harry Shepherd 16, w female, single, works on farm, born Indiana Emmet Shepherd 19, white, male, single, son, works on farm, born Indiana Effie L. Shepherd, 12, white, female, single, at home, born Indiana 1860 US Census, Fayette Township, Vigo County, IN Fielden Shepherd 49, male, white, born Kentucky, occupation farmer, owns land valued at $4K and personal property valued at $2K. Esther Shepherd 43, female, white, born New York, occupation farmer Walter Shepherd 19, male, white, born Indiana, occupation farmer Emmet Shepherd 9, male, white, born Indiana Harry Shepherd 6, male, white, born Indiana Orval Shepherd 4, male, white, born Indiana Effie Shepherd 2, female, white, born Indiana Rebecca Hedges 69, female, white, born Delaware, occupation farmer 1850 US Census, Fayette Township, Vigo County, IN Fielden Shepherd 39, male, white, born Kentucky, occupation farmer, owns land valued at $1,500 Esther Shepherd 33, female, white, born New York Melvin Shepherd, 14, male, white, born Illinois Walter Shepherd 9, male, white, born Indiana, Mary Shepherd, 2, female, white, born Indiana Rebecca Hedges 60, female, white, born Delaware James W. Shepherd, 41, farmer, white, male, born Kentucky, married to Catharine Shepherd, is living on an adjacent farm with seven children. 1840 US Census, Clairton Township, Vermillion County, IN Fielding Shepherd, household with one male under 5, one male between 21 and 30, one female under 5, one female between 21 and 30, and one female between 51 and 60. Indiana marriage records show Fielding Shepherd marrying Hester Hedges in Vermillion County on March 12, 1835. Kentucky marriage records reflect Thomas W. Shepherd marrying Elizabeth Blackburn on April 6, 1806, in Clark County, Kentucky. The 1810 US Census for Hardin County, Kentucky, lists Thomas Shepherd having a household with two free white males under 10 and one free white male between 25 and 44, and two free white females between 16 and 25. They held no slaves. The 1820 US Census for Washington County, Indiana, lists Thomas Shepherd, having a household with two free white males under 10, one free white male between 26 and 45, one free white female under the age of ten, and one free white female between the ages of 26 and 45. One person in the household is engaged in agriculture. The 1830 US Census for Washington County shows Thomas Shepherd with one free white male under 5, two free white males between 15 and 20, one free white male between 20 and 30, one free white male between 60 and 70, and three free white females between 20 and 30. There are also listed a William Shepherd and an Abraham Shepherd listed in the 1830 Census for Washington County. The 1840 US Census shows a Thomas Shepherd in Vernon Township, Washington County, with one free white male between 60 and 70, one free white female between 5 and 10, one free white female between 15 and 20, and one free white female between 30 and 40. A 1796 census of linen growers lists a Thomas Shepherd living in County Down, Ireland.	7
Hear Shep nightly again via podcast Date: 04-16-2007 By: ShepCast ( Topic#: 230 )	Remember the old days, listening to Shep's show every night? They're back, with the [url="http://shepcast.blogspot.com"]The Brass Figlagee[/url], a nightly podcast of nothing but Jean Shepherd's radio shows. The episodes have been coming regularly for over a year now, and are (I like to think) the most convenient way to get your daily fix. This free podcast works with any kind of modern computer, Windows, Mac, or Linux. You can use an actual iPod, any MP3 player, or just your computer to hear Shep. And now, the text of Jean's old shows is searchable, so you can find shows or topics by key word search. PS> This messsage is a re-post, since the forum needed weeding out recently, and unfortunately the link to the podcast was lost. ------------------------------------------------------ The Brass Figlagee - A Jean Shepherd Podcast Nightly episodes of Shep's radio shows http://shepcast.blogspot.com	1
Jean Shepherd on Route 1 Date: 04-18-2007 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 233 )	I watched Jean Shepherd on Route 1 this past wet, rainy & windy weekend here in New England[V] & I noticed that he recycled many bits from Shepherd's Pie (the junkyard segment, for example). Another thing I noticed is that after the show, it goes into an old Morton Downey, Jr. show!	5
Shep's Candy Store Date: 04-30-2007 By: wvcogs ( Topic#: 237 )	Over a year ago, m10bob posted a message on another topic on this forum that included this comment: "Before long, we should have a pretty good picture of Sheps' neighborhood, and who knows, maybe it will be made into a cartoon map, of sorts ? Now, last night I heard him mention (for the 2nd or 3rd time) of the candy store which was "near the Harding school". I suspect (at this time) he is referring to a location on 165th, as he has failed to identify it with Kennedy in his other referances. This candy store was where Shep and his friends acquired those "transfer tatoos". Now, we have some verification that the candy store was located on 165th. All I have to do is to get the friend of mine who is a new member and who emailed the verification to me to post it to this topic. I'll try to get him to do it later today. Ken -- Morton High School 1960	5
Shep Music on Olberman Date: 05-09-2007 By: Sack ( Topic#: 238 )	Monday night I was watching Countdown with Keith Olberman and during one segment Sheps theme music comes on. More proof that Olberman is a Shepherd fan. Just hearing that tune makes me smile.	0
Sanibel House Date: 05-16-2007 By: percarpio ( Topic#: 239 )	Hi all, I did a strange thing a while back. While visiting my in-laws with my family in Naples, FL, I got the notion to pack them all in the rental van and drive to Shep's house in Sanibel. What makes us do these things ? Anyway, it was kind of surreal parking in front of the house on Lady Finger Lake road. It's almost at the end of the island in a secluded neighborhood. It has been extensively renovated since the pix on Flicklives and you can't imagine Shep living there now frankly- very suburbia-looking. The older shots on the site are more what you'd imagine for an older, curmudgeonly character like he was in his last years. There was an eerie character about being there though...	4
Bix Beiderbecke Date: 06-13-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 243 )	In his youth Shep liked the music of Bix Beiderbecke and his orchestra, but that should be no real shock since Bix led the most popular band of his day, employing people in his orchestra like Don Murray, Jimmy Dorsey, and even Bing Crosby, (as a singer of course). Bix was a real musical genius, and being from the midwest felt right at home playing music by other midwesterners, especially tunes by Gershwin and Cole Porter. Not just content to play others' music, he also wrote the classic "Running Wild", (which in at least one WOR program Shep claimed had been his earliest theme song!) Shep discusses both his and his fathers enjoyment of music, (especially jazz), and in the late 20's and 30's, Beiderbecke was considered to be at the forefront of the "jazz" scene, and indeed is credited for assembling the right number of horns, (and types, with pianos, drums, and bass violins and banjos, (when needed.) All of the later big bands owe much to Beiderbecke, and Shep and his on air music was very complimentary to Beiderbecke,since most of the songs had been done earlier by him, including the very catchy "That's My Weakness Now"....... Other classics played and recorded by Beiderbecke included Georgia On My Mind, Rocking Chair, Felix the Cat,(very popular back then)and many others. In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Familiar hurdles Date: 07-10-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 245 )	Recently I contacted my local PBS affiliate requesting the re-airing of Shep's old PBS series. Here is their response, (from Robin Toulouse) Thanks for contacting WFYI. I, too, am a big Jean Shepherd fan! Unfortunately the programs are out of broadcast rights and are not available for us to show. They may come back into rights in the future, though. Stay tuned! In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Outdoor Chums Date: 07-13-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 246 )	In a recent Mass Backwards- aired program titled "Winchester 66", Shep admits to a childhood fascination for a series of adventure books about "The Outdoor Chums".. The stories written in the early 20th century are still available, for reading and/or download as public domain here: http://manybooks.net/series/65.html In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	2
Shepherds Tornado's Date: 07-16-2007 By: Dave C ( Topic#: 247 )	I was listening to one of Shep's WOR broadcasts where he talks about being in a Tornado in Comstock Michigan while in a rowboat with his brother Randy lying in the bottom of the boat when a Tornado hits the town. I grew up near Comstock and thought this was interesting so I looked it up and he would have been there August 8th 1939 when the Tornado hit. Me mentions the Red Cross showing up almost instantly and that is also mentioned in the article I read. I just thought it was interesting as some of his stories are semi fictional but given the show was from the 1960's and the Tornado was in 1939 when he would have been 18 years old and given the amount of detailed information he had on that particular incident he must have actually been there. I wonder what he was doing in Comstock Michigan or who he knew there. Comstock even when I was a kid in the 60's was such a small town you just didn't go there unless You knew someone or had a specific reason to go there as there just wasn't much there. Here is a link to an article about the tornado. http://server.remc12.k12.mi.us/ourtown/comstock/geography/geog4.htm	2
A Most Excellent Find Date: 07-22-2007 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 249 )	This past weekend, I went to a local used book store to dispose of a few books that I weeded out from my collection & to trade them for something more interesting, perhaps fillng some of my holes in my P.G. Wodehouse collection (another obsession of mine). This particular store wasn't one of those high-falutin' places, just a humble place in a strip mall with a Dairy Queen & a Red Wing Shoe store flanking it, a place where former best sellers go. I received a credit slip for my books & I went through the place. I did find two books by my fellow victim of the Witch City, Nathaniel Hawthorne and I was about to go to the cashier when I spied a book that was located in a glass case where the "better" books were. It was a hardback copy of Wanda Hickey and the sign said "J. Shepherd Autographed Copy $9.00". That's right, NINE B-U-C-K-S, $10-1. I said to the cashier "I'll take it!", while he went on about how one of his favorite movies was A Christmas Story. The book itself is a first edition in OK, but not perfect condition & Shep's signature is signed large on blue ink w/1971 below on the title page. Opposite the signature page is the following: "Happy Birthday Dad From the whole crew of "Shep" admirers at Honeybourne Hill J&H + Hjr, Pc, Ad, Br, Mr, MDad". This had to be one of my best book finds ever & I almost felt like I was at the book signing. I'm interested if anybody around here was any of the "Honeybourne Hill" admirers.	4
Spicy Western!!!! Date: 07-27-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 252 )	OMIGOSH!!!! (Shep mentioned finding and hoarding these magazines in his basement!) http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/dchistory/dcsother-pulps.htm In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
A Possible Steal From Shep? Date: 09-04-2007 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 254 )	This weekend, I purchased the Odd Couple (my favorite US sitcom)Season 2 DVD box set. There was an episode featuring David Steinberg in which he and Felix bond over their mutual love of old radio theme songs, including the one for "Little Orphan Annie", which gets sung several times on the show by Felix. I was reminded how Shep used that theme throughout his career, especially on his 1st album & I'm wondering if the writers from the Odd Couple took the idea from Shep or it was just a coincidence, given the fact that old radio nostalgla was big back in the early '70s.	0
Camp Crowder Date: 10-11-2007 By: Mark Miller ( Topic#: 260 )	Interesting thing I found awhile back. In the Dick Van Dyke show Camp Crowder is where Rob and Laura met. Rob was a Sergeant in Special Services and Laura was a USO dancer. Mark Miller	1
Shep Kissed Me! True Story! Date: 11-04-2007 By: Barbara A ( Topic#: 264 )	I had an outrageous personal experience with Shep back around in 1966 or 1967. He was doing a book signing at Barnes & Noble in NYC. At the time I was attending college in New Jersey. I went with a few girlfriends to the book-signing because we were all big fans. Nobody had any money to buy the book. But we figured it would be a great way to meet Shep in person. We all stood giggling in line, wanting to tell him how much we loved his radio show. There was a film crew there recording the event. I thought maybe it was a TV station looking for a story on a slow news day. So we finally got to the head of the line and I was thrilled to be so near my hero! I said, "Shep, I love you but I'm just a poor college student and I can't afford your book. Would you autograph my hand?" He chuckled and agreed. I don't remember what he said to me as he was autographing my hand, but suddenly he pulled me towards him and planted a big wet kiss right on my lips! I was so shocked I couldn't even speak. I almost fainted! That moment was one of the highlights of my young life! I didn't wash my hand for a week! A couple of years later I was dating a guy who went to Rutgers University. He told me that one day he was sitting in the student union watching a documentary about Shep and saw the whole scene I just described. Someone put my encounter into a movie about Shep! I would dearly love to get a copy of that film. Have you seen it? Do you know anything about it or where I could find it? I sure hope that someone here has the answer. Thanks for your help. Barbara A.	2
Chicago World's Fair 1933-34 Date: 11-16-2007 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 265 )	Shep's entire family remembered their trip here as a major event in their lives. http://hometown.aol.com/chicfair/tripcox.html In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
A visit to Shep's home! Date: 01-08-2008 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 278 )	I did a recent google video search and there is a film called "Christmas Story-Reality" in which a man with a camcorder goes to Shep's boyhood home on Cleveland street in Hammond and while on the porch, visits the current owner of the home. The visit was fairly impromptu and so nothing was planned. (He does not take us inside), but it is a nice view from the porch and of the front of the home. In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Shep's wife Lois Nettleton passed away Date: 01-26-2008 By: raccoonradio ( Topic#: 283 )	Actress Lois Nettleton passed away last week. She was married to Shep in the 60s. From her Wikipedia entry: "She was the first caller to Jean Shepherd's late-night radio program on WOR-AM. She became a regular guest, known to listeners as "The Caller", and they married in 1960, divorcing seven years later. They had no children." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Nettleton	1
Got their tongues stuck! Date: 01-28-2008 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 284 )	Two boys not far from Shep's boyhood home saw the film, so.... http://www.14wfie.com/global/story.asp?s=7781129 In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
"Village Sunday" a 1960 film narrated by Shep. Date: 02-01-2008 By: Dan ( Topic#: 286 )	Village Sunday (1960) a short subject (10 minutes) film narrated by Shep will be shown on 02/23/2008 at Gateway National Recreation Area: Village Sunday on IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0232905/ Movies Celebrating New York City Date: February 23, 2008 Time: 12:30 PM Location: Fort Wadsworth Visitor Center, Staten Island, NYC {For those of you in the NYC metro area, Ft. Wadsworth is near the S.I. side of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (I-278). From the S.I. ferry take the S51 bus. Call the vistor's center at 718-354-4500 for further directions.} Details:These four rare films depict the city between the years 1953 and 1963. The films include: Spectacular New York, 3rd Avenue El, Only One New York, and Village Sunday, narrated by radio humorist Jean Shepherd. Fees:FREE Contact:Fort Wadsworth Visitor Center 718-354-4500	1
Original Schlitz to be bottled once more! Date: 04-06-2008 By: ShepCast ( Topic#: 298 )	[url=http://www.suntimes.com/business/880338,CST-NWS-schlitz06.article]This news item[/url] in the Chicago Sun Times announces the return of the original recipe Schlitz in the original long-neck bottles. In part, this is to celebrate the end of Prohibition 75 years ago, and in part to appeal to the nostalgic among us. I like to think Shep would be pleased. I'm sure I'll depart from the usual Red Zin and buy a six pack, and raise this slob's toast to the man. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ The Brass Figlagee - A Jean Shepherd Podcast Nightly episodes of Shep's radio shows http://shepcast.blogspot.com	1
new analog to digital transfers? Date: 04-23-2008 By: Duhhh ( Topic#: 299 )	Is anyone working on doing new analog to digital transfers? I have seen quite a jump in our ability to clean noise and produce better digital audio in the past few years, and this might help preserve classic shows like Shep's (before we lose the analog completely). I almost had a shot at this when I found someone who had Shep tapes, but it turned out to be a dead end. If there is an ongoing effort, where do I sign up to help? I'm sure the digital files floating around now are more products of minimal bitrate rather than maximum quality, but I wanted to know if there was a way I could help in the preservation. FYI, I was a production engineer back in the 70's (listened to Shep on WOR, but didn't save any of the recordings I made [:(]), so I learned on analog (my echo chamber was a dual head tape deck, and my reverb was a big spring [8D]). Now I do digital music editing, and am always amazed at what can be done (I use Adobe Audition 2.0). I've cleaned a few of my favorite shows, but when starting with 24k samples, there's only so much that can be done.	7
Shep Archives Down For The Count? Date: 04-29-2008 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 301 )	I recently noticed that after not logging on the Shep Archives for several months, that it is no longer on the Web. Does anybody have any information?	7
Shep Archives Date: 05-06-2008 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 303 )	Am I the only one to notice the huge Shep Archives has not been online for a few days? In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Poster Date: 05-24-2008 By: Moochia ( Topic#: 308 )	Does anyone know if copies of the famous Shep "personality poster" exist out there?	1
Shep on CNN Date: 06-18-2008 By: dgants ( Topic#: 309 )	I was watching the CNN coverage of the Indiana Primary last month as one of the network reporters dissected a large digital map of the state. During one observation, he noted that the northern population of the state differed significantly from the southern. He then drew a horizontal line through the middle of the map, calling it "the Jean Shepherd-Bobby Knight line." Nice to now there is at least one Shep fan in cable land!	3
Shep 'n Shel, With a Bit o' Lois Date: 06-19-2008 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 311 )	I'm currently reading A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein by Lisa Rogak. As many of you know Shel was a close friend of Shep & it's rumored that Shel wrote "A Boy Named Sue" based on Shep's problem w/having the name Jean. It's amazing how much they had in common. They both came from the Chicago area, they both loved to travel, they had rather interesting views on relationships, they were both published in Playboy, they both had success in different areas & finally, they died in the same year. I'm not sure how long their friendship lasted, although Shel did work w/Herb Gardner after The Thousand Clowns, so maybe Shep was ticked off w/that. Anyway, I do recommend the book. It's a short, good read. Also, I'm sort of surprised about some of the stuff that's in the Lois Nettleton estate ebay auction, especially the Valentines that she made for Shep. I would think that stuff like that woul;d have been destroyed in a fury, considering how that marriage ended. Six o' one, 1/2 doz of the other, I guess.	6
Bear Weevils Date: 07-03-2008 By: nr440 ( Topic#: 313 )	Does anyone have Jean's 12/18/73 story "Bear Weevils"? I have attempted a reconstruction from memory (which I would be happy to post for correction and additions) but it would be ever so much better to have the original. Will appreciate any steers!	1
I have pix Date: 07-11-2008 By: Alan Vandever ( Topic#: 315 )	OK, I have some pix of Randy, Jean's brother, and his Rolls, but I can not figure out how to post them. Someone, please help.	0
Shep on Winmx Date: 07-11-2008 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 316 )	I have all of the Shep programs which were in the archives. I share them on a file sharing program called Winmx. It is free and can be obtained at winmxworld.(Search your browser) I usually have them up on the weekends, running all night. In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	1
Pix of Randy, Jean's little brother Date: 07-12-2008 By: Alan Vandever ( Topic#: 317 )	If anyone is interested, I have posted some pix of Randy and his Rolls Royce. I used his car for a model shoot in Aug. of 1968. I have one shot of Randy sitting in the car. It's easy to see the resemblance between him and Jean.	1
Shep--Radio Hall of Fame induction Date: 07-18-2008 By: raccoonradio ( Topic#: 318 )	Here's a clip of Jean's induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. The RHoF just announced their latest inductees; Shep got in a couple years back. http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/shof.mp3	1
Shep's Signal Corp days Date: 07-24-2008 By: SpaceCat ( Topic#: 319 )	Hi Gang- I'm a new old guy here who grew up in the northeast listening to Shep on WOR; came to Florida in the late '60's to go to college and eventually work for the space program and other stuff.... such that now I'm an eccentric old space guy who lives alone with a bunch of cats. Some years ago, I wrote a little story for an old girlfriend to explain the significance of the old nail holes in the ceiling beams of my living room. Shep 'purists' might find some fault with my history, but you can't dispute the spirit. Funny how some things run full-circle.... and I'm looking up at those beams now. A Voice In The Dark Something I never admit to my southern friends- unless they become very good friends and it happens to come up in conversation- is that I was born in New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The best response I ever had to such an admission came from the then not so reverent son of Palm Beach Atlantic co-founder, Reverend Dr. Jess Moody. When I casually and absent-mindedly mentioned to Pat Moody that I was born in New Jersey, he gave me a blank stare and seriously asked, "How come you're not an asshole?" I suppose I am not, because for 38 years I've had the good sense to realize that I am merely a guest on this sandy peninsula where eons ago nature decided nothing would be permanent. But the focus of this writing is not my adopted allegiance to the South, but to an influence on my formative youth in the North. It happened like this. In the early 1960's when the first wave of cheap Japanese transistor radios hit the American market, every youngster had to have one. My first carried the brand name of "Coronet," a two-transistor wonder that emitted scratchy sound from an item about the size of a cigarette pack. In central New Jersey, it was not even powerful enough to receive the mighty AM pop stations from New York or Philadelphia. In most cases, it only brought in one station- the rather bland news and talk format of WOR whose New York studios transmitted from towers in Carteret, New Jersey. For young kids, it was amazing enough to hear a voice come out of a tiny electronic marvel in the palm of your hand, but six nights a week at 10:15 or 11:15 the voice we heard shaped a generation. It belonged to Jean Shepherd. These days, a one-line biography of Jean Shepherd would label him as 'an American humorist, writer and storyteller.' To young boys with vivid imaginations and transistor radios hidden under their pillows after dark, "Shep" was our window to the world through the 1960's. Each night his broadcasts diametrically opposed the staid, conservative, low-key talk from WOR. In essence, he was a beatnik who made good, coming from the same period of Ginsberg, Kerouac or McLuhan- and some nights he would irreverently play his kazoo between short jabs at current pop culture, nonsensical politics or idiots in the news. Mostly though, Jean Shepherd told stories. Stories of his travels and experiences- SCUBA diving in the Red Sea, learning to fly an airplane, fishing in the upper Great Lakes or the Gulf of Mexico.... and mostly stories of his youth growing up in a Midwest steel mill town; and stories of his Army days where he spent World War II "watching for Hitler" in a secret Signal Corp radar installation deep in the Florida Everglades. Added to an early 1960's TV show called "The Everglades," an early Ivan Tors production wherein Park Ranger, Lincoln Vale seemed to constantly pursue bank robbers from Miami through the swamps in his airboat; Shepherd's stories of Florida substantially contributed to my early visions of this magical place I would one day call home- in ways more intimate than I could imagine. You have to keep in mind that during the 1940's, all of South Florida more than ten miles inland was considered 'the Everglades.' Not far from my present home, a small portion of those glades are preserved in the form of Jonathan Dickenson State Park. During World War II, this park was Camp Murphy- a 'secret' Army Signal Corp test and training facility for the new technology of Radar. There in the swamps, amidst a myriad of shanties, tents, barracks and workshops connected by duckboard paths, great dishes on platforms swiveled around transmitting and receiving their locating radio signals as they "watched for Hitler." It was there too, that Jean Shepherd and his Army buddies "Gasser" and "Zinsmeister" maintained and tested the equipment between bouts of traumatic encounters with bloodthirsty mosquitoes, cantankerous alligators and cockroaches large enough to saddle. There is little doubt that listening to Shepherd's stories each night for the better part of nine years was a major influence on the way I've learned to tell stories of my own. His vivid word-pictures, vocal sound effects and frequent detours into coincident topics before returning to cap off a main theme were contagious. Despite his nightly candor and embellishments on his past, Shep's personal life was largely unknown to his fans. I did not know he had a seven-year marriage to the pretty blonde actress, Lois Nettleton, until I found it mentioned on the Internet well after his death. His stories made their way into print in several books and were frequently featured in Playboy, Field and Stream and other magazines; though most of America will know him as the author and narrator of the movie "A Christmas Story," where his alter-ego young self, Ralph, longs for a Red Ryder BB Gun. In the late '60's and early '70's, the New York PBS television station took him into another medium, resulting in a series of shows called "Jean Shepherd's America." Before Charles Kuralt's "On The Road" productions made small-town American back roads popular, the camera followed Shepherd on travels to the obscure which he narrated and elaborated on with his own stories. The episode on Florida was unforgettable; contrasting the glitz of Miami Beach where Jackie Gleason golfed and Barbara Streisand seemed to endlessly sing, "People- who need people" with twangy, haunting guitar riffs behind glimpses of now long-gone quiet fishing villages full of rugged individuals and rusty pickup trucks on the Gulf coast. I last heard Jean Shepherd on the air in 1974 when I was headed back to Florida in a U-Haul truck full of family possessions following my mother's passing. Ultimately, Shep retired to Florida and died quietly at home on Sanibel Island in 1999 at the age of 78. After the War, the Army Signal Corp abandoned Camp Murphy leaving the old wood buildings there up for grabs amongst the locals, before the area was made into Jonathan Dickenson State Park. Through the years, old-timers have told me that most of the older homes in Port Salerno, many now long gone, were moved here from Camp Murphy or built of salvaged Dade Pine from the Army shacks there. Today, as I look up at the old nail holes in the Dade Pine beams of my living room, it's a comfort to know I'm surrounded by timbers that once sheltered one of the most influential voices of my youth.	2
fathead central dvd set 4 Date: 08-07-2008 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 327 )	Has anyone actually gotten this set ? There are a number of shows on there that were not in the archives and I'd be very interested in acquiring a copy . I have all the previous sets .	0
Shep MP3 collection posted for download Date: 09-11-2008 By: shepfan ( Topic#: 337 )	I put my complete MP3 collection, originally obtained from the JSP, up on mediafire for downloading. http://www.mediafire.com/shepfiles (Actually I'm still uploading files -- about 70-100 files a night. Should be done in a few days.) If anyone has more to contribute, please drop me a note. Excelsior, fatheads!	3
I try to model my radio show after the Master Shep Date: 10-08-2008 By: harrywolfshow ( Topic#: 343 )	For the past 6 years every tuesday night at 7:30 I do an AM radio show in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area. I tell stories about being a kid, , Sometime I just can't resist, "I'm a kid, see..." WNJC 1360 AM and streaming on WNJC1360,com Podcast at Harrywolfshow.com If you listen, drop me a note Radio show Tuesdays 7:30 pm in Phila WNJC 1360 WNJC1360,com podcast shows at harrywolfshow.com	0
Max Schmid and Gary link difficulties Date: 10-28-2008 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 348 )	Is anyone else getting the message sorry Fathead this page does not exist when trying to mp3 download ?	2
New guy here Date: 12-05-2008 By: never forgot ( Topic#: 359 )	I have never forgotten the first time I heard him. It was a defining moment. Somehow I slept better at night just knowing people like him existed. Same thing went for another man from a different genre Charles Bukowski. I can buy all of Bukes books but have no idea what is available or how to obtain any material on Shep. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim	1
The Jean Shepherd Project Date: 12-18-2008 By: milosz ( Topic#: 364 )	What's the deal with http://www.thejeanshepherdproject.com/ ? The website's been there for a long time, emails to the contact listed go unanswered, etc etc- Did the owners of this site just get tired of running it and quit? Someone is paying for the domain name and the hosting - seems a waste to just have the site there with the same basically useless info on it for years.....	0
Does a list of existing shows exist? Date: 12-18-2008 By: milosz ( Topic#: 365 )	Is there a definitive list of all the known extant recordings? Or maybe a semi-definitive one? I'd like to see what exists and compare it to what I've got.....	2
Shep on Slate.com Date: 12-22-2008 By: Brent ( Topic#: 370 )	There is an article about Shep for the uninitiated on Slate.com. It focuses on the radio career and general decline of the man behind A Christmas Story. It is not pretty but the article mirrors my feelings. After reading Excelsior You Fathead my fears about my hero were confirmed. A good read for Shepophiles. [url]http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/[/url] "Mah Gawd! Hey, Maw, It's Cassie! She's home from the reformatory!"	1
Blind Date Date: 01-17-2009 By: kevjj888 ( Topic#: 388 )	This may sound silly, but who knows the story where, at the end, Shep finds out HE is the blind date? Is it called "Blind Date"? Is it in any of his collections? Thanks for any help. ~Kevin D. One who fell asleep as a kid with Shep under his pillow.	2
Fly in the coke bottle Date: 01-24-2009 By: Bobctc ( Topic#: 389 )	Anybody know the show that had the date drinking from a coke full of bugs?	1
Shep's voice is always with me. Date: 02-01-2009 By: joel ( Topic#: 390 )	I stopped listening to Shep in the early 1970s, in my 30s, climbing the corporate ladder in advertising. I started listening to him nightly about eight or nine years ago, when I discovered Max's tapes, then Jim's site, and now, podcasts. I rarely miss a night. Shep taught me to look at the world around me, to appreciate the humor in it. The little things are the meat of life, and he taught me to pay attention to them. I started telling stories about my youth to my seven year old granddaughter when she was five. She always wants to hear "true stories." Her interest inspired me to write my stories, put them in a blog. "How would he tell this one?" I ask myself when I write. His voice is never far from me. So far I have nineteen stories. I have another forty that tell the truth about the ad biz. I'll eventually upload these. http://stuffthathappens.typepad.com/my_weblog I'd love to share the tales of my feckless youth with you and hope I live up to Shep's standards. He is the master. Let me know what you think. Joel	2
A Thousand Clowns Date: 02-27-2009 By: diskojoe ( Topic#: 399 )	Last Sunday night, while going through the TV channels I happened to catch A Thousand Clowns, which was on the PBS station in Boston & I watched the last hour of it. The main character Murray, which was played by Jason Robards, did remind me a lot like Shep, especially in his use of "hurling invictives" & playing "Yes Sir, That's My Baby". As I was watching it, I was thinking if Herb Gardner expected to keep his friendship w/Shep after writing a character like Murray & what his motivation was in doing so in the first place. I wish I got to see the beginning of the movie, or better yet, actually get it on DVD, which hasn't happened yet [:(].	0
French 75 Date: 07-28-2009 By: TheCount ( Topic#: 473 )	I work at the French75 Bar in New Orleans and I've had guests a year ago that told me he enjoyed a French 75 and discussed the drink in one of his shows. Is there any chance of locating that show so that I can hear it and save it to my computer? Is there a hosting place that has years of his shows from Radio in any sort of chronological order? Thanks so much.	1
Lightbulb in the Coal Bin Date: 08-23-2009 By: woodsroad ( Topic#: 483 )	Does anyone know which show that the "Lightbulb in the Coal Bin" story appears in? My FIL remembers the story from Shep on KYW or WOR, but I have not come across it yet. And I've listened to a couple hundred of the shows... Thanks	0
Shep at WSAI Date: 08-24-2009 By: radiocincy ( Topic#: 484 )	For fans of Jean Shepherd's early days: I've posted on our museum web-site a recording found on an old WSAI 16" transcription disc labeled "Jean Shepherd Farewell." Before you get too excited, Shep is not on the recording...rather, I surmise, it was an off-air gag tribute his co-workers created for him after Jean quit the station around 1951. Still, it does give us some insights into the format of Jean's show, how much his co-workers adored him and the fact that Jean obviously was not fired, but quit on his own accord. Enjoy! http://historyofbroadcasting.com/_wsn/page14.html -Mike	2
Restoration Project - Take A Listen... Date: 11-03-2009 By: john~k ( Topic#: 509 )	Hello, Just wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming restoration project and request an opinion. My brother Andy recorded weekday and Limelight Shepherd shows beginning in 1964 when he left the Navy until WOR ended FM simulcasting in 1967. Andy passed away in 2003 and left a nearly complete set of shows in my care. Although degraded with time these tapes did start out with an advantage. They were all recorded on fairly high-end equipment. His Roberts recorder for example cost the equivalent of $3,000 in today's dollars. My background in electronics has helped overcome some of the technical issues related to transfer and restoration of this material. Issues such as speed correction, bandwidth reconstruction, and improved dynamic range. The question is, do the results improve upon what is already available? I would very much appreciate an opinion on the sound quality of this work. My thinking is that there would be little value in pursuing this project if equal or better quality material already exists. Here's a clip I've been using to chart my progress. It's Shepherd reading a poem by Ogden Nash, titled, "A Tale of the Thirteeth Floor." It originally aired on Thursday, December 9, 1965. Restored clip: http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/a3d3911c18/Thirteenth_Floor There's also an alternate recording of this show on archive.org. It begins at about the 8 minute mark. Alternate recording: http://www.archive.org/download/JeanShepherd1965Pt1/1965_12_09_The_Lafayette.mp3 Thanks in advance for any insight or suggestions. Sincerely, john~k	6
Sam's Birthday Date: 11-05-2009 By: Pro2am ( Topic#: 510 )	If I'm not mistaken, today is Sam's birthday[?].	0
A Christmas Treat - Shep and Leigh Brown on LJN Date: 12-22-2009 By: john~k ( Topic#: 532 )	While transcribing one of my brother's tapes this past weekend I came across a rather rare recording. It's Leigh Brown along with Shep on a Long John Nebel radio show. What makes this show unusual is that Shepherd appears on it with his then 25-year-old producer/assistant, Leigh Brown. Turns out she's got one heck of a "Joisey" accent. Also appearing were fellow radio veterans, Phil Tonkin and Bernie Koresh. Original air date was Saturday, July 4, 1964. Here's a restored clip. Restored Leigh Brown Audio http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/7609544cfb/Leigh_Brown	5
Original Harding Date: 12-28-2009 By: nitti ( Topic#: 536 )	I didn't want to start a new topic, but couldn't find the thread that I read about Harding. The second Harding had a boilerhouse facing Parrish, which coincidentally had a strikezone painted on it for playing "strikeout". (the chain link fence on Parrish kept grounders from rolling for blocks) But I digress....... Across the street was the vacant lot that was the home of the original Harding of Shep's era. Someone said on the thread that the temporary buildings on that lot in the '50s were the original Harding. I ran that by my 87 tear old mom over the Holidays and she said that an original Harding - which was a wooden school house, not brick, preceeded the pre-fab temporaries. Does anyone have access to an achive that pins it down for sure?	4
Donald Fagen-- on Jean Shepherd Date: 01-09-2010 By: SpaceCat ( Topic#: 540 )	Stumbled across this piece the other day, and thought I'd pass it along: http://www.slate.com/id/2239185/	0
Campy Commercial Compilation... Date: 01-21-2010 By: john~k ( Topic#: 548 )	A pure camp triple-play from early 1965. Clipped from several WOR-FM Shepherd shows and restored. Pardon my editing. Campy Commercials: http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/ccec6412b9/Campy_Commercials	3
Happy Anniversary, flicklives.com! Date: 01-27-2010 By: spiderman ( Topic#: 551 )	Happy 10th Anniversary & thanks to Mr. Clavin for making all this great gallimaufry available to all of us Martys & fatheads. Keep your knees loose and your glove oiled...	3
Unknown film about Shep? Date: 03-15-2010 By: spiderman ( Topic#: 568 )	I posted this under another topic awhile ago; I'm hoping it might catch a few more eyes here: in an undated show from 1967 titled "Hobbies, Potatoes, etc.", Shep mentions that it's a Monday. Later, he says that on Wednesday (or two days later), there will be a premiere of a student film at the Annenberg School in Philadelphia called "Channel 10 - In the Middle Distance" that he says "is about my show". Not only would finding that premiere date allow an accurate dating of this show, it would be very interesting to uncover that film!!! My search of the Internet for anything to do with this has thus far proved feckless. Has anyone out there ever even heard of this? Keep your knees loose and your glove oiled...	3
Iwo Jima Date: 05-31-2010 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 592 )	Shows about Iwo ? A buddy from the service remembers one but I can't . Any help ?	0
Shep Music Date: 06-21-2010 By: oxmix ( Topic#: 598 )	I recently heard some music by the composer Alan Berg, and I thought I might have heard it before when I was ten years old listening to Shep on WOR on my transistor radio. Can anybody tell me if Shep played Alan Berg for background mood music?	0
Shep and "The Tarriers" Date: 07-22-2010 By: john~k ( Topic#: 603 )	For those who enjoy obscure Shepherd references, here's one from a previously unknown Limelight show. In it Shep invites a young folk trio up on stage to "belt out" a few tunes. What makes this appearance noteworthy and perhaps a little historic is the group's personnel. In early 1964 "The Tarriers" were Eric Weissberg, Marshall Brickman, and Clarence Cooper. Eric Weissberg would go on to fame writing and performing "Duelling Banjos" in the movie "Deliverance." Today he's considered one of the best 5-string banjo players around and is still performing. Marshall Brickman left to join "The New Journeymen" with John and Michelle Phillips. He went on to write comedy sketches for Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett. He would later meet Woody Allen and collaborate on Sleeper, Manhattan, and Annie Hall. He won a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Annie Hall. Clarence Cooper was an African-American who replaced Alan Arkin who had left to pursue a stage and screen acting career. Cooper sings lead on Tom Paxton's new composition, "Ramblin' Boy." This may be the only known recording. Cooper died in 1974. Shep mistakingly introduces the group as "Erik Darling and The Tarriers." Darling was a founding member but had left to form the "Rooftop Singers." That group had a number one hit in 1963 with "Walk Right In." If you listen carefully you can hear Weissberg, off-mike, correcting Shep about the name. They performed three selections that night but Weissberg's banjo instrumental is left out to limit file size. This clip is also edited to repair/remove audio breakup in several places. Sound quality is otherwise excellent. Enjoy! Shepherd_Limelight_Tarriers.mp3 - 7.5 MB http://www.datafilehost.com/download-e60f8336.html John	1
attention iphone fans: im going to college and? Date: 08-05-2010 By: rbooker251 ( Topic#: 604 )	I am thinking about buying an iphone, i think it would be useful cuz it serves as my music,phone, and has a bunch of useful apps like calories counters,agendas,dictionaries,books, ect. Is it worth the 99 bucks or not?	1
Need to Reduce the Index Date: 10-23-2010 By: silentshep ( Topic#: 619 )	OK, there are and we search for current topics-posts.. But any scroll-down and we see many if not all postings are not used-old[2006]. Seems that there should be an update. Either bunch them [old posts] together or revise the whole thing. Some thoughtful catagories just didn't make it. Not any interest in playboy coments. All could be condensed into just plain writings. Guess I'm just tired of going down the list to see nothing new. Seems the only thing keeping the site alive are the folks from the Hammond area. And, they don't seem to have much to say about Shepherd. Gary in California.... OK++++ Let me have It++++	2
New Slob Checking In! Date: 01-04-2011 By: Rob ( Topic#: 630 )	Just like to say Hi to the Shep fans, here. Came across his show few weeks ago, via flipping through some internet radio stations and coming across him on Insomnia Theatre. It was the episode where he was describing the Police shootout outside his Grandmother's apartment block on New Year's Eve. I was thouroughly engrossed, and dug a little deeper into the world of Shep. Never heard of him before, but I am a firm fan now! I guess his humour translates well across borders and across generations. Got a couple of his books on order, and downloaded an indecent amount of his stuff from archive.org. Trying to convert others, now....	3
Shep and Other Master Story Tellers Date: 01-16-2011 By: tdd1956 ( Topic#: 632 )	New to this forum. A Shep listener of seven years. Although I grew up in the days of his radio show, Shep's voice didn't carry as far as Des Moines, Iowa. Loved ACS from the first time I saw it and found Ollie Hopnoodle as well in the early nineties. But the radio shows came to me in an indirect fashion. A local talent, Paul Berge, produced and wrote an hour long radio show entitled "Rejection Slip Theater" beginning in 1993. It aired for four or five years on WHO AM radio, a fifty-thousand watt station that can be heard around the globe at night when the cionditions are right. This imaginative show boasted stories supposedly sent in by listeners with an attached rejection slip, and turned into radio plays by the show's producers and actors. It's a little scetchy as to whether this was really the case or the real talent behind the scenes was writer Paul Berge. Whoever was responsible for the fantastic story telling doesn't really matter, but the reason I and my young son always tuned in on Sunday nights was the weekly visit to Westwood New Jersey to soak up the antics of "Artie Azzetti and Me"! Artie Azzetti and Me was written by Paul Berge and focused on growing up in the sixties, going to catholic school and generally being a kid. The stories were laugh-out-loud funny nostalgic and often touching. They were the kind of stories you could relate to because after all, what kid didn't try to put as many caps together as he could and hit them with a rock to see if they would make a huge explosion? But the episode that changed my life was the story of a New York Radio personality who convinced the kid to paint the words "FLICK LIVES" on the side of his father's garage. This of course was Jean Shepherd. I bought the MP3's on ebay and have never looked back. Paul Berge and Shep - in my world and for so many others, story tellers of the same calliber as Garrison Kiellor, Mark Twain, and George Aid. Yes indeed, FLICK LIVES!!!	0
Hi All! Date: 02-23-2011 By: MCPHOTOS ( Topic#: 637 )	Just popping in to say hi to you all. Wanted to share info down the road. Lived in Hessville, I graduated from Bishop Noll in 1967, the family had moved to Griffith where I lived with them before getting drafted into the Army in 1969. I will post pics I can find. MIKE CLIPKA	2
FACEBOOK Date: 02-23-2011 By: MCPHOTOS ( Topic#: 638 )	BTW, You can contact me on FACEBOOK. MIKE CLIPKA	0
Enfin le Pandaranol ? Date: 06-01-2011 By: charliec273 ( Topic#: 647 )	Un appareillage merveilleuse, qui fermeté tenir de perturber toute votre vie verra le baie le 1er Juillet 2011 en France. Cet apparaeil s''appellera un Pandaranol et sera un groupe de panda couplé à un téléphone magétophone.	0
Shep Podcast for his 90th birthday Date: 07-23-2011 By: JimTesta ( Topic#: 666 )	I am rebroadcasting my Jean Shepherd podcast to celebrate Shep's 90th birthday. It includes some show snippets and an interview with Eugene Bergman, author of Shep's biography. I also include Shep reading a Robert Service poem from the Folkways album he released in the 70's. you can download the podcast for free at jerseybeatpodcast.blogspot.com or search for Jersey Beat Podcast in the iTunes store under podcasts. If you're not familiar with podcasts, they are just big mp3 files. if you can listen to mp3 songs on your computer or mobile device, you can listen to podcasts www.jerseybeat.com	0
Hello from another fan Date: 07-30-2011 By: WaterLily ( Topic#: 673 )	Greetings from someone who was a fan in the pre-Christmas Story movie days. ;-) I used to listen to Jean Shepherd on WOR (710 AM) at night as I was going to sleep as a child. Living in Trenton, NJ, I got to see him speak a couple times, since my Mom was also a fan. Once was at Trenton State College... don't recall where the other one was, but I think it was somewhere near Princeton. Later, when I went to college, I went to a small school in rural Indiana -- a bit too rural to be just like what Shep described in his radio shows, but even in the early 90's, that part of the country was so slow to evolve that it was "like" what most of the rest of the country had been decades earlier. (For example, it had the feel of the kind of place I think Trenton might have been before the mid-60's that are the first I remember of the place.) Sick with the flu this past week, I eventually became coherent enough to attempt to address my boredom through Internet Radio on my phone, and I found the incredible Insomnia Theater's 100% Jean Shepherd broadcast. What a wonderful thing! I've been listening a lot since then, moderated only by the fact that due to my living situation in Australia, I have to use cellular Internet, and it's not cheap. At some point, one of the announcers mentioned flicklives.com, so I figured I'd stop by and be counted! Onceuponatime I downloaded a pile of Jean Shepherd stuff from Some Place On The Internet, I Know Not Where. Thought I had multiple copies of it, but I realized about a year ago that I apparently didn't, when an exhaustive search of every still functional hard disk in my possession failed to turn it up. :-( As a business professional these days, I've taken any number of classes on effective presentations and communication. It's interesting how much of what is taught even today about how to do these things, are things that Jean Shepherd seemed to do naturally. In fact, over the past week, while listening to him, I'd periodically think about some of the things I've learned about public speaking and such, and map them back to what I was hearing and laugh like hell. Years before anyone thought to teach fancy seminars that quantified all of the things to do, to do that sort of thing well, you just either did or did not have the knack. Jean Shepherd had the knack.	2
Just Testing Date: 08-22-2011 By: Sunshine ( Topic#: 681 )	I am new to this. Just testing.	1
Just Joined the Forum Date: 09-11-2011 By: digger ( Topic#: 712 )	While digging a new garden spot in my yard on the 7300 block or Monroe Avenue my shovel hit a glass bottle marked Hammond Dairy Co. It suffered a small fracture, but is otherwise in perfect condition. Our house was the first on the block from what I understand. It was built in 1930. I was looking for information on the Hammond Dairy Co. and came to this forum. Like many people I like things that are old. I was born in Hammond at St. Margaret Hospital in 1959 and grew up in Munster. I remember Christmas shopping downtown Hammond, the snow falling, the store windows displays, riding the elevators, my parents complaining about the trains holding us up... I loved all of it. That had to be the most exciting part of Christmas for me besides decorating the tree with lead tinsel and big bulb lights. I also remember my first trip via bus from Munster to Hammond. I was about three and the thrill of the downtown shopping area never left me. The place that impressed me the most, I think it was Woolworths, a five and ten store on Hohman Avenue. It had ceiling fans, wood floors, and lunch counter grill in the front. As a teen I was allowed to ride the bus with a friend and go to my favorite hangouts like Teen Bears, JC Penny, the Golden Eagle, Walgreen's diner, Gean's restaurant, and one of those shiny trailer grills on one of the streets off of Hohman were you could get a great grilled cheese sandwiches and a coke for under a dollar. I often dream of the sights and smells of that time. The bolts of fabrics in Minas sewing department, the ladies hats and gloves displays in the small windows on the stairway landings, and the bins of ribbons, kitchen towels, and assorted accessories. I often wonder if there is any merchandise or displays left, perhaps forgotten in some dark corner of a basement or attic storage space in the buildings that remain. If there is, I would love to see it, touch it, smell it. My mother grew up in East Chicago. One of my favorite story she would tell was when she and her friend would go to Queen Ann Candy factory and get a whole bag of broken candy pieces for a nickel. My father born in 1923 is now 88 years old. He lived in East Chicago and Hessville and is a Graduate of Hammond Highschool. He was neighbors with Jean and Randy Shepard. I guess it was Randy he hung with. I love to pick dad's brain about the Shepherd's. I like to joke with him and tell him he was probably one of the boys in Jean's stories. He told me last year he was at Jewel in Munster on his weekly grocery run when he ran into Randy. I don't know how they recognized each other, but it is so nice that they did. Dad's one of those guys that kind of keeps to himself, but for a few people and family, he doesn't socialize much. He seemed very pleased to have seem Randy. I can tell by the smile on his face when we talk about it. I think dad would love to see him again if he could.	2
Bahn Frei (Shep's Theme) Restoration Date: 09-12-2011 By: john~k ( Topic#: 713 )	As you probably know, audio quality of existing copies of Shep's signature theme "Bahn Frei" sound pretty bad. I was able to trace the original recording back to 1946, which predates the use of magnetic tape for mastering. The session would have been cut on an aluminum disc coated with lacquer. According to a Wiki on the history of RCA records it's also unlikely any of the original masters, mothers, or stampers would have survived. quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Victor_Records RCA Victor decided to demolish their Camden warehouse in the early 1960s. This warehouse held four floors' worth of catalog and vault masters (most of them were pre-tape wax and metal discs), test pressings, lacquer discs, matrix ledgers, and rehearsal recordings. A few days before the demolition took place, some collectors from the US and Europe were allowed to go through the warehouse and salvage whatever they could carry with them for their personal collections. Soon after, collectors and RCA Records officials watched from a nearby bridge as the warehouse was demolished, with many studio masters still intact in the building. The remnants were bulldozed into the Delaware River and a pier was built on top of them. In 1973, when the company decided to release all of Rachmaninoff's recordings on LPs (to celebrate the centennial of the composer's birth), RCA was forced to go to record collectors for materials, as documented by Time. Given that it's unlikely the original recording will ever surface, I thought it might be a worthwhile effort to attempt a restoration. The process required several days and used some of the same techniqes I've worked on to restore Shep's taped material. The only editing liberty was to place the result into a "stereo space" optimized for headphone listening. The original recording, of course, was not in stereo. Included in the restoration file is a copy of the full page Ad that appeared in Life Magazine on April 29, 1946, promoting the release of this album. Price for the 3 disc set was $3.00! Bahn Frei Restoration - 4.2 MB http://www.datafilehost.com/download-106c3dc0.html Flicklives' Bahn Frei page: http://www.flicklives.com/Music/Bahn_frei/Bahn_Frei.htm John	0
CHRISTMAS STORY-- The Musical ~ Review Date: 12-16-2011 By: HassoBenSoba ( Topic#: 750 )	Here's the Chicago Sun-Times' (rave) review of the musical-comedy stage version of "Christmas Story" that just opened at the Chicago Theater. http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/stage/9463473-452/a-christmas-story-stage-musical-an-enchanting-holiday-gem.html I'm so-so on the film itself (sorry), but this makes me want to jump in the car and head to Chicago. LR	0
Christmas Story props etc. Date: 12-25-2011 By: murdock ( Topic#: 751 )	There is a marathon of Shep's Christmas Story going on now. I have always loved that movie own the D.V.D. and have seen it many times. Lately though I've been paying more attention to the background things and there are a horde of art deco items. Lamps, coffee table. candy/nut holder the old floor radio etc. What a fantastic job was done to get that time period into a movie. As many times as I've seen the movie there always seems to be an item I hadn't noticed before. Love it!!! [:)]	2
Shep documentary, tribute etc Date: 01-27-2012 By: raccoonradio ( Topic#: 753 )	http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/offbeat-region-tv-producer-in-new-york-for-tribute-honoring/article_c734220b-8697-5811-bbc6-1e45febe5845.html#ixzz1kWUVKZtj excerpt: >>Nick Mantis, of Merrillville, from the program "Around the Region" and owner of New Millennium Productions, is in New York City this week for a tribute event to Hammond's own humor and radio claim-to-fame Jean Shepherd. His trip to the Big Apple isn't just for fun, but actually more of a business trip. Mantis is serving as executive director and producer for a new Jean Shepherd documentary he's doing called "Shep."	1
the Figliggie Date: 04-24-2012 By: Kip W ( Topic#: 762 )	Like you, I'm used to spelling the word "figligee," which I suspect I got from Excelsior, You Fathead! A day or so ago, however, I happened to see this Smokey Stover Sunday page from a comics blog, and there in the last panel we find a wondrous thing. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A5tBg5T1mGo/T1j3IpBO6MI/AAAAAAAAdQM/Ow6KQMltqVk/s1600/Super118-03.jpg "Phippled Figliggies," the caption reads. At a stroke, we see where Shepherd almost undoubtedly got the word �" from Holman and Smokey, if not from this exact strip �" and how it's spelled (unless a word doctor wants to make the case that Shepherd made a new word of it and spelled it differently). But wait, there's more! Follow the arrow from the words and you'll see that phippled figliggies are those little trianguloid things in Smokey's briffits (a perfectly cromulent word). We even know what they are now! Mind you, I still don't know if regular, non-phippled figliggies look like that or not, but I think we can all agree that a great stride has been taken in our knowledge, largely thanks to "Pappy," who posted the comics page (and many others) at his Golden Age Comics blog. I await the plaudits of a grateful world. (Don't worry, I packed a lunch.) 24 Apr 2012	2
Shep in the 1940 census Date: 05-09-2012 By: Brent ( Topic#: 766 )	The Shepherd family can be found starting on line 49 of this page of the 1940 census: http://tinyurl.com/7fvbtjm His parents were 38 and he was 18 at the time. Randy was 16. It shows that Shep had 4 years of high school. His father had 2 years of high school and his mother finished at 8th grade, which was the norm for their class of people. "Mah Gawd! Hey, Maw, It's Cassie! She's home from the reformatory!"	1
Shep's Cincinnati Date: 12-12-2012 By: raccoonradio ( Topic#: 784 )	http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2012/12/12/a-look-at-jean-shepherds-cincinnati/ Fire this Jean Shepherd guy--he talks too much...,	0
Shep's Army: Bummers, Blisters and Boondoggled Date: 02-07-2013 By: m10bob ( Topic#: 788 )	As soon as I was able to pre-order this book, I did..Shep is (of course) the author, (edited by our friend Eugene Bergmann and right now you may pre-order for less than eleven dollars (U.S.) from Amazon.com..It should be available in a bit over a month from today(February 7th 2013), and the price I mention is a special pre-order offering.. In Hoc Agricula Conc In Est Spittle Louk	0
Shep's 5 Ham Radio Callsigns and Prior Addresses Date: 03-23-2013 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 792 )	Thanks to Pete "The Greek," NL7XM, America's leading Radio Amateur Callsign Historian, we now have the complete story on Shep's five ham-radio callsigns and corresponding addresses prior to his moving to New York. They are as follows: 1. W9QWN, about March 1938 to Summer 1947, at 2907 Cleveland Street, Hammond, Indiana. 2. W4QWN, about Summer 1947 to Winter 1948/1949, at 808 Madison Avenue, Covington, Kentucky. 3. W8QWN, about Winter 1948/1949 to Fall 1950, at 3440 Bishop Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4. W8QWN, about Fall 1950 to Winter 1951/1952, at 3136 Bracken Woods Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. 5. W3STE, about Winter 1951/1952 to Spring 1954, at 10-B Fairfield Apartments, Wayne, Pennsylvania. 6. W8QWN, about Spring 1954 to Summer 1955, at 3811 North Broadlawn, Cincinnati, Ohio. 7. K2ORS, about Summer 1955 to _______ , at 283-B Reichelt Road, New Milford, NJ.	0
Hessville Cafe(Sip&Bite) Date: 03-24-2013 By: Thawk9632 ( Topic#: 793 )	Does anyone know if the Hessville Cafe (closed),	0
New life for Shep ! Date: 04-02-2013 By: cgn37vet ( Topic#: 794 )	Who has seen the website Pronk Palisades ? It will make you smile . Shep stories set to period photos as a slideshow breathe new life into his work . I couldn't help chuckling over and over . You need to check it out I can't believe I haven't seen this before .[:D]	0
Jean Shepherd Date: 04-20-2013 By: Thawk9632 ( Topic#: 795 )	What year was Jean born in.	1
The REAL Delbert Bumpus and his hounds Date: 09-17-2013 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 797 )	Virtually everyone reading this post will be familiar with the Bumpus hounds, especially from Shep's movie, "A Christmas Story." The Bumpus family and their hounds first appeared in print in Playboy magazine in the late 1960s. In Shep's 1971 book, "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories," the first chapter was titled, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds." There, Shep introduced Delbert and his family, said to be "hillbillies," this way: "We were living next door to a tightly knit band of total slobs, a genuine gypsy family. The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hun's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true. Delbert Bumpus, the runt of the litter, came to school about three days a month. It was three times too often. Whenever he showed up, there would be a lot of yelling, and they'd throw him out. Delbert never played with anybody and he hardly ever talked; but he spat a lot. Since he lived with the goats and rabbits and chickens, he didn't smell exactly like the rest of us, either -- and we weren't any bargain." Shep went on in the story to further disparage Delbert and his family. Delbert Bumpus was in fact a very real person who lived in the Hessville section of Hammond, Indiana, and attended its schools with Shep. If you go to the People section on Flick Lives, and click on the Web page for Delbert Bumpus, you can view pictures of him and his family. You will also learn the true story of Delbert, as well as of the "hounds." Here is the direct link: http://www.flicklives.com/index.php?pg=348&ID=x549 Shep could sometimes be mean-spirited and hurtful. Intended or not, Delbert Bumpus was humiliated and deeply wounded by Shep's demeaning and fictionalized treatment of a real, identifiable person. It was something of a burden Delbert carried through his adult life, after reading the original story in Playboy. It was a burden particularly undeserved by the REAL Delbert Bumpus, an American hero.	0
Shep's brother Randy played pro baseball for . . . Date: 11-06-2013 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 800 )	In an Earl Wilson newspaper article of October 16, 1955, the columnist wrote about Shep, and included some background color about his family back in Indiana. Wilson mentioned that Shep's brother Randy was a "former pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds," who had played for the Reds "in late 1947 and in spring training in 1948." Although the foregoing piece of Shep trivia has been referenced from time to time -- including in this forum and in Bergmann's EYF -- the true facts have been elusive. Thanks to some Shep spies in Cooperstown, we now know the name of the actual team. The Rockford Rox was a minor league team that originally played in Rockford, Illinois, from 1917 to 1923 in the Class B Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League. However, the Rox was resurrected in 1947 as a Class C team affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds in the six-team Central Association. Its best season as a Class C team was its first in 1947, when the Rox lost in the first round playoffs, placing third (68-57). The team went downhill from there. They finished in 5th place (56-72) in 1948, and in last place (38-91) in 1949, when the Rox disbanded because of financial difficulties. Randy Shepherd signed a contract with the Rockford Rox on April 5, 1948, with spring training to begin a week later. He was released from the contract within six weeks, perhaps sticking around a bit after that. Except for an index card documenting the contract with the long-defunct team, little else seems to remain regarding Randy's brief professional career. The Rockford Rox was a troubled team. During the 1948 season, the team manager was suspended a month for spitting at an umpire. And in the team's final season, they lost locker room privileges when playing the Burlington Indians at the Indians' home field. The Rox and their manager had "jumped on" the Burlington groundskeepers for a failure to provide the Rockford team enough hot water in the dressing rooms. But the main reason the Rox folded was probably its inability to compete for paying fans with another professional baseball team playing at a nearby stadium in the same Illinois town. The very popular and successful Rockford Peaches of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League played in Rockford from 1943 until 1954, when the league folded. The Peaches and their league were made famous to later fans by the 1992 Hollywood hit, A League of Their Own. Randy, of course, gained his own sort of cinematic notoriety a decade earlier in A Christmas Story.	0
NPR airs Shep's eulogy of Pres. Kennedy Date: 11-25-2013 By: duane ( Topic#: 801 )	Shep gave a 45 minute eulogy of Presidnt Kennedy just a few days after his assassination. NPR broadcast that today, and have it posted on their website. You can listen to part 1 here and that site has links to the other parts. Interesting to hear Shep in this situation, he is very serious and makes some very good points about society. [url]https://www.prx.org/pieces/105637-jean-shepherd-remembers-jfk[/url] Also, in other Shep news ,there is a new Shep book! Compiled from his various radio shows dealing with army life, it is called Shep's Army. It was compiled by Eugene Bergman and it is truly Shep's words, from his radio shows. [url]http://www.amazon.com/Sheps-Army-Bummers-Blisters-Boondoggles/dp/162316012X[/url]	0
Royalties Date: 12-25-2013 By: Mark Miller ( Topic#: 804 )	Where do any royalties go for the sale of Sheps books,movies etcetera. If I recall only his two children survive but there were issues there Mark	1
What's in a name? Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. Date: 09-01-2014 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 892 )	The last post on this forum was in 2013 . . . and that was mine. But I understand some folks still regularly check here, so for them I now provide something new to read. Many of you may already know how Shep obtained his first name. As written in Bergmann's EYF, "Shepherd was named Jean after his father, whose sister, so it is said, had admired the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables and suggested that her baby brother be named Jean after the main character." (EYF at 43.) And now for the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey used to say). I just came across an audio clip of an undated WOR radio broadcast, where Shep tells the story of how his father came to be named "Jean." As with all things Shepherd, one must be wary of accepting it all as fact. But here it does seem to be at least consistent with the historical record. According to Shep, his father's sixteen-year-old sister -- "Aunt Glenn" -- was in her "romantic period" at the time of the Old Man's birth. She aggressively pushed for her new baby brother to be named "Jean," after Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Les Miserables, the French historical novel first published in 1862. Shep's real Aunt Glenn was in fact named "Glenna," born in Kansas in December 1885. However, her name was frequently shortened to "Glenn." And Shep Sr., Glenna's younger brother, was in fact born in 1902, when Glenna would have been sixteen. According to Shep, his grandmother relented, and the baby boy was named according to Aunt Glenn's wishes. However, as Shep explains, the original birth certificate read "Gene." So young Aunt Glenn went down to the hospital to have it changed. Further according to Shep, the hospital called home to speak to Shep's grandmother, who said her daughter was correct, and the certificate was changed to read "Jean." The WOR clip also refers to the Old Man's family living near "55th and Union" on the South Side of Chicago. Prior to the birth of Shep's father, the Shepherd family in fact lived at 4435 South Union Avenue, near 44th and Union. However, by the time Shep Sr. was still a very young boy, the family had moved to 5603 South Union, which is located right at 56th and Union. I note there now seems to be no 55th and Union; rather, there is a Garfield Boulevard located between 54th and 56th South Union. By the way, Shep's "grandmother" (the Old Man's mother) -- although not named in the clip -- was born Flora Ella Raffety. Finally, records show Shep Jr.'s birth certificate apparently reads "Jean Kenneth Shepherd," not "Jean Parker Shepherd"! Perhaps Shep folded into his father's story the necessity to change the name on his own birth certificate? The name "Parker," of course, was the surname of the family in "A Christmas Story."	0
Two indelicate facts & what became of the Old Man Date: 09-30-2014 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 893 )	OK gang, settle down. I offer the following information solely for the serious student of the human soul. All others should move on to TMZ.com. 1. Randy, Shep's younger brother, was reported in 1988 to be wanted by the Indiana police on a sexual-misconduct charge. The Post-Tribune (Indiana) of September 23, 1988, carried a story headlined "Humorist's brother sought on charges." The article began this way: "Police said a brother of nationally known humorist Jean Shepherd has eluded arrest for more than six months on a sexual-misconduct charge. Randall G. Shepherd, 65, of 2230 Ridgewood St., Highland, was charged in Lake Superior Court last March with felony child exploitation. Highland police Detective Thomas D. James alleges Randall Shepherd showed two Highland girls, ages 12 and 14, a magazine with sexually explicit text and drawings on September 12, 1987." The 1988 news account goes on to say that the Highland, Indiana, police had searched Randy's home and found the offending publication. The police weren't sure if he was still in the area, and there were rumors Randy could be living in Chicago or Florida. The Lake County prosecutor's office was quoted as saying "there isn't enough money in [the] office's budget to extradite all such felony fugitives, but [we] might make an exception in this case because of the seriousness of the alleged offense." I have been unable to locate any further reports regarding the truth or falsity of the foregoing allegations, including whether the reported charges were ever dropped. However, when Randy died about five years later in St. Pete Beach, Florida, several obituaries reported that he had first arrived there from Highland in 1988, consistent with the rumors back in Indiana at the time. By the time of Randy's arrival in Florida, Shep had already been withdrawing from the world as a recluse on Sanibel Island. Shep and brother Randy were separated by a distance of some 130 miles, about a two-hour drive. Did they ever meet or speak in the last years of their lives? 2. Shep was conceived out of wedlock. Although many published sources provide an incorrect date of Shep's birth in Chicago, his birth certificate conclusively establishes he was born on July 26, 1921. Other government documents show that the Old Man and Anne, Shep's mother, were married on March 20, 1921. "You do the math," as they say . . . . In the quaint parlance of years past, the Old Man and the older Anne (she was about three years his senior) apparently "had" to get married, whether or not there was any real affection or love between them. Perhaps that circumstance offers some clues to -- or at least partial explanation for -- the domestic dysfunction and marital difficulties both Jeans would suffer in later years. Listening to Shep on the radio during his long WOR stint you never got the feeling the Old Man was a particularly loving husband or doting father while he was working at Borden dairy in the harsh Hammond winters. Indeed, not long after Shep and Randy left home and went off to join the Army, the Old Man left Cleveland Street (as well as Shep's mother), taking up with a much younger woman. He married her in the fall of 1945, starting a new life and family on Florida's Gold Coast, where he became a jewelry salesman on a sun-splattered boulevard. But that did not last long. The Old Man died a decade later, at age 54, while his young wife died several years after that. And the one son born of the union died at age 21, having lived most of his short life an orphan. In the last years of his life, the Old Man gave his third and last son the name of his doting, older sister Glenna (Shep's "Aunt Glenn"), who as a sixteen-year-old romantic teenager had bestowed the French name of Jean on her baby brother. It brings to mind Orson Welles uttering "rosebud" at the end of his life in Citizen Kane . . . . As a footnote, the Florida funeral home where final services were held for Shep's orphaned half-brother and the Old Man was just torn down in June to make way for a college parking lot.	0
The identity of Shep's first wife & the early days Date: 10-12-2014 By: Colonel ( Topic#: 894 )	Little is known about the time between Shep's graduation from Hammond High in June 1939 and what has usually been considered his first professional radio job at WSAI in Cincinnati in early 1947. From the 1940 federal census, we know that Shep spent his first year out of high school mostly unemployed while seeking gainful employment as a "new worker." He told the census taker in late April 1940 that out of the previous 52 weeks, he had worked only four, earning a total of $100 for the year. He also declared that he had not recently attended any school or college, giving the highest level of education completed as four years of high school. We also know that Shep spent about two years in the U.S. Army, between July 1942 and December 1944, returning home to 2907 Cleveland Street in Hammond upon his discharge from Camp Atterbury, located near Edinburgh in central Indiana. At the time of his enlistment in 1942, Shep had informed the military authorities that he had completed one year of college by then, and his occupation was listed as a general office clerk. So what of the approximate two years between early 1945, Shep's return to civilian life in Hammond, and early 1947, when he moved to Covington, Kentucky, right across the river from WSAI in Cincinnati? According to the Hammond City Directory for 1945, Shep was then working as an announcer at local radio station WJOB. Previous accounts have noted that Shep worked at WJOB while still in high school, providing scores for Hammond High's sports events. But, in fact, Shep's first professional broadcasting job as an adult was apparently also at WJOB, shortly after his discharge from the Army. Working at WJOB at the same time as Shep was a young and pretty Hammond resident named Barbara Mattoon, who helped maintain the radio station's library. Barbara was born in 1926 in Minnesota. She was the daughter of Roy E. and Selma O. Mattoon. In 1929, her family had moved to Hammond from Superior, Wisconsin, where her father worked as a civil engineer. By the early 1930s, Roy was employed as a mill foreman at Inland Steel in nearby East Chicago, Indiana. His family, including Barbara and her siblings, lived at 248 Vine Street in Hammond. Barbara attended Hammond's schools, including Kenwood, Washington and Edison. She often participated in school activities, and performed in school plays and operettas. She also occasionally made the honor roll. At Edison, Barbara served on the school's tenth-grade graduation committee in 1940. It appears that Barbara was also something of a flirt. During the war years, she was said to be actively corresponding with 31 different servicemen in the army and navy, signing each letter to her uniformed boy friends "with love." She was elected "honorary sweetheart" of a flight squadron in Texas, and even had a combat airplane named in her honor. By then, her nickname was "Queenie." Shep also apparently fell for the charms of his comely co-worker at WJOB. On March 29, 1947, Shep and Barbara were married by the Reverend Ralph Wilbur Frost of Hessville's First United Presbyterian Church. A native of Ohio and a veteran of World War I, Rev. Frost had first arrived in Hammond during World War II, replacing the previous minister, a pacifist who had left the local ministry for civilian service at a camp sponsored by the Quakers. At about the time of his marriage to Barbara, Shep had moved to Covington and began work at WSAI in Cincinnati. And in 1950, about three years after his marriage to Barbara, Shep married Joan Warner, the second Mrs. Shepherd. It is not now known what became of the first Mrs. Shepherd. Apparently, for reasons now unknown, both Shep and Queenie wished to erase that period of their lives from the historical record. They were mostly -- but not entirely -- successful.	0