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The Travelin' Grampa The Travelin’ Grampa Touring the U.S.A. without an automobile Focus on fast, safe, convenient, comfortable, cheap travel, via public transit. Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2010 This house where the 1983 classic film A Christmas Story was shot still stands in Cleveland and has been visited by more than 100,000 tourists. The RTA #81 bus goes there from downtown. Classic film’s hero’s home really exists The home of Ralphie Parker, the boy hero of the classic movie A Christmas Story, is on Rowley Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, not on Cleveland Street in some fictional town in Indiana., where author Jean Shepherd had placed it in a story he wrote. Shepherd grew up in Hammond, Indiana, where he graduated from high school and worked as a mail carrier and steel worker. Later, he became a radio broadcaster in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New York. Grampa remembers listening to him on station KYW and chucking at his tall tales. Shepherd also wrote short stories, among them A Christmas Story. The movie’s producer looked at a half dozen cities and towns and decided to shoot its exterior scenes in Cleveland, because Higbee's Department Store there was willing to cooperate in the film’s production. It’s mere coincidence that the name of the street in Hammond where Shepherd grew up was Cleveland Street. 1 Pictures credit: A Christmas Story House Museum; Jennie Moore Cray. ‘Christmas Story’ house in Cleveland. Grampa’s granddaughters and leg lamp. You & grandkids can explore ‘A Christmas Story’ house Restored to its movie splendor, the house in the merry A Christmas Story film is open to the public all year around, but not on Christmas Day. Located directly across the street on Rowley Avenue is A Christmas Story House Museum. This displays costumes, props and memorabilia used in making the motion picture, plus hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes photos. These include items seen in the movie such as: toys from Higbee’s department store’s window, little brother Randy’s snowsuit and toy zeppelin airship, a chalkboard from Miss Shields’ classroom, and the Parker Family’s car. In an adjacent gift shop, you can buy replicas of the Major Award Leg Lamp, bunny rabbit pajamas an aunt sent Ralphie as a Christmas present, etc. Admission price to the house and museum is $8 adult, $7 senior, $6 child 7-12, child 6 & under no charge. For more info: achristmasstoryhouse.com or call (216) 298-4919. Ride trolley from near Higbee’s to Ralphie’s home Trolley Tours of Cleveland, which does tours all over northeast Ohio, operates Lolly Trolley that goes from downtown Cleveland to the A Christmas Story house and museum. Along the way, the trolley takes you on a 1½ to 2 hour tour around popular Cleveland tourist spots, including Public Square, Ohio City, and Tremont. This trolley runs on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during December. Prices: $22 adult age 13 and up, $14.25 child age 7-12, $5.50 child age 6 and under. No rides or tours Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Reservation required. Trolley Tours of Cleveland claims it will conduct a tour for any number of tourists, whether it’s one or 1,000. For more: www.lollytrolley.com or call (216) 771-4484. Photo by Byron Filkins, from Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University. Crowd at an actual Higbee’s Christmas parade at East 6th & Euclid in Cleveland in 1955. 2 Ralphie got stage fright while sitting on Santa’s lap, and said he just wanted some “tinker toys” for Christmas, but at right he’s pictured looking up at Santa and shouting he really wants a Red Ryder air rifle. Santa replies, “No! You’ll shoot you eye out, kid!” Grampa actually shopped in Higbee’s department store In the 1983 black & white movie A Christmas Story, the Parker Family goes downtown to watch the annual Higbee’s Department Store parade, complete with Santa’s arrival. Next day, little Ralphie Parker goes to Higbee’s to tell Santa he wants for Christmas a Red Rider BB gun, to which, Santa says, “You’ll shoot your eye out kid!” Higbee's building still stands at 2000 Ontario Street, adjacent to Cleveland's downtown Public Square and the famous Union Terminal Tower complex, where, times Grampa flew to Cleveland, he got off the Rapid train from the airport. Higbee’s building still stands, but gone is the giant department store that was there from 1931 to 2002. Grampa remembers lunching during the 1970s with someone in Higbee’s 10th floor Silver Grille restaurant. The first three floors now are occupied by a convention & visitors bureau and a local civic organization. The Silver Grille has been restored and is used for special events. Photo credits: GCRTD; Brandon A. Shaw, Lake County RTD; GCRTD Cleveland waterfront llight rail line, Laketran Park-n-Ride bus, and subway/surface train to airport. Public transit goes from downtown to Ralphie’s home Route #81 buses marked Tremont take about 30 minutes to go from downtown Public Square to the A Christmas Story house and museum at 3159 W. 11th Street. Get off at W. 14th & Rowley and walk about five or ten minutes to 11th. This is one of 84 bus routes of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit District. Nearly 500 buses ply these routes, picking up passengers at more than 850 bus stops, 1,332 with shelters. Including its rail lines, RTD is boarded some 50-million times a year. Its railways include an 18-station Red Line and a 34-station Blue/Green Line, including a waterfront branch. RTD also operates 80 paratransit vehicles and two downtown trolley routes. Its latest addition is 20 rapid transit buses that run along bus-only lanes. The Green and Blue lines evolved from a railway built by the developers of suburban Shaker Heights, to connect that community with their downtown Terminal Tower project. 3 Sequel movie to ‘A Christmas Story’ was a spectacular flop Believe it or not, Rene DuPont, who produced A Christmas Story, made a sequel about Ralphie Parker and his family. The first was a wintertime comedy; the second, a summertime comedy based on a story by the same writer, Jean Shepherd, who narrated both films. It also had the same director, Bob Clark. They titled it It Runs in the Family. After it flopped at the box office, they changed its name to My Summer Story and it flopped again, grossing a total under $71,000, a financial disaster. Shepherd's story was shoddy. The acting was pathetic. It had only one performer from the original film, the actress who played Miss Shields, Ralphie's teacher. Before he directed A Christmas Story, Bob Clark mainly made horror films. My Summer Story turned out to be one. Laketran carries suburbanites to Higbee’s vicinity From suburban Lake County, you reach A Christmas Story house via Laketran bus to the vicinity of the Higbee’s store building downtown, where you switch to a #81 Cleveland RTD bus to 14th & Rowley. Laketran has six regular and five commuter express bus routes, the latter all going into Cleveland from Park-n-Ride lots in Madison, Mentor, Painesville Township, Wickliffe and Eastlake, and from Lakeland Community College and Willoughby Hills shopping center. Single ride fare on all six fixed routes is $1.75 adult, 75¢ senior/disabled and child. Ten-ride ticket is $17.50 adult, $7.50 senior/disabled, child age 2 and under no charge. Commuter Express single ride is $3.75, seniors/disabled and children $2.50. Dial-a-Ride within the county is $10 for one ride and $100 for a ten-ride ticket. Missed Macy NY parade? There’s one in Florida, too If you weren’t among the 45 million who watched this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, or wish to see a repeat, you more or less can – at Universal Studios adjacent to Orlando, Florida. Admittedly, this parade is not as big as New York City’s, which draws 2½-million or so onlookers and more than 10,000 participants, plus many fabulous floats and giant character balloons. But the Orlando parade is a pleasant substitute, with nicer weather. Universal Orlando holds Macy’s parades this year from Dec. 5 and thru New Year’s Day, featuring some of the most popular balloons and floats from the New York parade, plus many festive street performers and marching bands from across the country. After the parade is a fabulous tree-lighting ceremony. Grampa no stranger to Macy’s 34th Street store For a few years, Grampa worked in Manhattan, and shopped in Macy’s 34th Street store, sometimes having lunch there. His latest to that store was with granddaughter Julie, who was visiting from Tampa, Fla., which, ironically, isn’t far from Orlando. Julie and he rode subways and buses uptown and downtown all day, to Central Park, a few museums, and Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty. They ate lunch at Mindy’s off Times Square and dinner in a Subway sandwich shop, located on the second floor of a building facing City Hall and its park. They went into the Empire State Building, too, but decided to forgo the tower. It was a very cloudy day and virtually impossible to see whether King Kong was up there or not. Best subways to see the Thanksgiving Day parade If in New York for the parade next Thanksgiving, best ways to get to a good watching spot include: the D subway line to 34th St./Herald Square station or 59th St./Columbus Circle station, or the C train to 42nd St./Times Square, 50th St./8th Ave., 59th St./Columbus Circle, 72nd St./Central Park West, or 81th St./Central Park West.
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