On the way home from the Westside Market today, I decided to surprise Carrie and Ashley by taking them over to the house that “A Christmas Story” was filmed at. It took them both a couple of minutes to figure out where I had taken them, since the house has been renovated significantly since the movie was filmed, but imagine our surprise when we were all invited inside for a tour!
The website AChristmasStoryHouse.com is covering the renovation and is inviting people to stop in over the next few weekends. Sadly, there’s not much to look at in the house right now (frankly, it’s completely stripped, except for the Christmas tree and leg lamp in the window) but the curator has Ovaltine to drink and plenty of “A Christmas Story” memorabilia for sale. There were DVD’s of the movie, lots of stills and glossy pictures from the film, leg lamps, t-shirts and even lifebuoy soap!
We picked up the special edition 2-DVD version of the movie (Yeah, I bought the movie from the living room of the house at which it was filmed) and Ashley got a t-shirt. All proceeds go to the restoration of the house to it’s big screen glory.
If they can indeed restore the house to it’s movie appearance, I can see us making the house a holiday tradition.
Today was pretty cool. Now if anybody needs me, I’ll be under the sink with a glass of milk.
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