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General Shep Related Chatter
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Shep's Candy Store
Date: 04-30-2007
By: wvcogs
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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 |
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04-30-2007
( Reply#: 1499 ) |
johncmccann |
quote:
Originally posted by wvcogs
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
I just copied and pasted the message I sent to Ken and left in my memories of the store at California and 165th too.
I was reading messages from the start of the Hammond forum and there was some discussion about a candy store near Harding and I remember one on the corner of Delaware and 165th where I used to buy Indian brand pumpkin seeds for 3 cents a box and snaps for 2 cents a box. I also remember the store at California and 165th being a figurine store that gave lessons on painting figurines on Saturday mornings. I used to paint them then try to sell them to neighbors.
John |
04-30-2007
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m10bob |
This will also be where Shep bought one of his tops..
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk |
04-30-2007
( Reply#: 1513 ) |
johncmccann |
quote:
Originally posted by m10bob
This will also be where Shep bought one of his tops..
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk
Where did you get your information about Shep? Is there a website with his radio shows or writings? I just heard of him a few days ago, although I love the Christmas Story and identify with "you'll shoot your eye out kid" My mother found my pump bb gun and smashed it over the banister on our front porch on the corner of California and Crane in Hessville.
What do the words at the end of your message mean?
John |
05-01-2007
( Reply#: 1516 ) |
m10bob |
John, Shep, a native of Hammond, went to radio station WOR in Manhattan and broadcast a near daily program for over 20 years, telling his stories all that time. Many of his programs have been preserved and are re-broadcast by several different sources.
CD's of MP3's with lots of his programs can be purchased thru Max of WBAI,and you can find his site on MASSBACKWARDS.com IIRC.
Max also re-broadcasts a Shep program every Tuesday morning at approx 0500, and Jim Clavin posts them on his site for download in wav and real formats.
An excellent "Biography"(personality/works) study is available called EXCELSIOR YOU FATHEAD, By Eugene Bergmann, which can tell you a lot about Jean Shepherd.
The psuedo-Latin I quote was used often by Shep and might be translated to mean "Please don't spit on the poor farmer", or as Shep once claimed, might also mean "Welcome to my home....take everything"....
It was Sheps' way of making fun of the seriousness of institutions which used Latin to look impressive,sound important,etc.
Go here!:
http://flicklives.com/
and programs here:
http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/mass_back.htm
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk |
05-01-2007
( Reply#: 1519 ) |
johncmccann |
quote:
Originally posted by m10bob
John, Shep, a native of Hammond, went to radio station WOR in Manhattan and broadcast a near daily program for over 20 years, telling his stories all that time. Many of his programs have been preserved and are re-broadcast by several different sources.
CD's of MP3's with lots of his programs can be purchased thru Max of WBAI,and you can find his site on MASSBACKWARDS.com IIRC.
Max also re-broadcasts a Shep program every Tuesday morning at approx 0500, and Jim Clavin posts them on his site for download in wav and real formats.
An excellent "Biography"(personality/works) study is available called EXCELSIOR YOU FATHEAD, By Eugene Bergmann, which can tell you a lot about Jean Shepherd.
The psuedo-Latin I quote was used often by Shep and might be translated to mean "Please don't spit on the poor farmer", or as Shep once claimed, might also mean "Welcome to my home....take everything"....
It was Sheps' way of making fun of the seriousness of institutions which used Latin to look impressive,sound important,etc.
Go here!:
http://flicklives.com/
and programs here:
http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/mass_back.htm
In Hoc Agricula Conc
In Est Spittle Louk
I found a site that has archives of Sheps radio show and listened to some of them yesterday after I left the message, the first one I listened to mentioned the latin phrase and what it meant, talk about timing. Here's the link to the site I listened to.
http://shepcast.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
Click on the listen now to load the program to listen with and there is a list of programs below the controls that you can choose from. I used to walk past where Shep lived on Cleveland on my way to Harding in the late forties and early fifties, I had a friend that lived on Cleveland accross from Dowling's house and I would walk from my house at California and Crane to his house then past Sheps to Harding.
John |
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