Question about A Christmas Story - Democratic Underground

neebob

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:16 PM
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Question about A Christmas Story

OK, so the potatoes are roasting in the oven with what I hope is not too much garlic and rosemary, the hair color is on, and I'm wondering if anyone knows exactly when this movie takes place - late forties? Early fifties? I was born in 1960, so I don't know.

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librechik

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:20 PM
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1. forties-- no TV, lotsa radio

that's the most overt way to tell

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demodewd

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:25 PM
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2. Late 40s

After WW2. Late forties a few years before the advent of TV. Warren G Harding School reminds me of the school I attended..grades 1-5 in Waterville Ohio.. ahhh...the memories!

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neebob

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:28 PM
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4. That's what I thought

Edited on Thu Dec-25-03 03:31 PM by neebob

but I'm confused by the mother's hair. It looks more like eighties hair, not forties hair. There's a woman in Darren McGavin's newspaper with forties hair. But the teacher's hair is more like thirties hair, and some of the cars look really old.

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trof

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:38 PM
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6. No cars made during war years.

So the cars immediately post-war were relatively old pre-war models.
I agree about his mom's hair, not "period".

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Another Bill C.

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:26 PM
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3. Yup.

It was the forties. Big round milk bottles, coal furnaces (rich people had stokers), cordouroy pants that made a lot of noise when you walked, big heavy snow suits. I was there.

We even had a local bully who would run out from behind houses to jump kids on the way to school.

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neebob

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Thu Dec-25-03 03:34 PM
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5. We had bullies like that in the sixties

and the department store window display reminds me of ZCMI (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), where my Grandma worked, circa 1965.

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papau

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Thu Dec-25-03 09:26 PM
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7. 1946 ro 1956 - The Daisy BB gun owned the back page of every comic book.

4.95 in 47 - more in 56

but every kid wanted one - and few got them!

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nemo137

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Thu Dec-25-03 10:42 PM
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8. 1940.

you can see the date on his decoder pin and/or certificate.

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carpetbagger

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Fri Dec-26-03 12:05 AM
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9. License plate was 1940 as well.

It couldn't be before 1939 (Wizard of Oz theme at the mall), and while I can't prove it offhand, it's unlikely that it was during the war.

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