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- While Prancer is set, and filmed, in Three Oaks, Michigan, portions of the Christmas movie were also shot in northern Indiana — in La Porte and New Carlisle to be exact.
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Jan 21, 2021 · The house used to film the movie was a two-story Victorian in Cleveland, OH. There are a few key similarities between the Indiana home of Shepherd’s childhood and the Ohio home used to film the movie. Both houses: Were in steel towns with nearby trainyards. Had front porches and yards. Are located in residential neighborhoods with sidewalks.
Dec 3, 2020 · Located at 2907 Cleveland St. in the Hessville neighborhood of Hammond, Jean Shepherd’s childhood home, minus the notorious leg lamp in the front window, still stands in Northwest Indiana,...
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- Ralphie's house (Cleveland) When the Cleveland house where the movie was filmed (at 3159 W. 11th St.) went up for sale on eBay in 2004, Christmas Story fanatic Brian Jones bought it for $150,000.
- The Bumpus house (Cleveland) The Bumpuses were never seen in the movie, but their presence next door was still strongly felt due to the frequent barking from their hound dogs, who famously steal the Parker family's Christmas turkey.
- Viewing of the leg lamp (Cleveland) Director Bob Clark actually cameos in the movie as "the Swede" who questions the Old Man (Darren McGavin) about his "major award," that unforgettable lamp that adult Ralphie (Shepherd, serving as narrator) describes as "the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window."
- Higbee's department store (Cleveland) The Christmas parade scene that opens the movie was filmed just outside of Cleveland's legendary Higbee's department store — where Ralphie spies the Red Ryder BB gun through the window — on the public square at 3 a.m.
Dec 8, 2008 · The “Christmas Story” House in Hohman, Indiana. The movie was based on Jean Shepherd’s book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. The stories took place in the fictional town of Hohman, a stand-in for Hammond, Indiana, where Shepherd grew up.
Sep 21, 2023 · FILE – This Dec. 15, 2008, file photo shows the house, left, where the 1983 movie “A Christmas Story” was filmed in Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland.
Sep 21, 2023 · The fictional town of Hohman, Indiana is based on Shepard’s hometown of Hammond and the stories center around the life of what it could be like to live in Hammond.
The northwest Indiana town is located right outside of Chicago, Illinois. Although the movie was filmed in Cleveland, the story is set in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana, which is named after one of Hammond’s busiest streets.
