"Jean Shepherd's America" on Trains

Thanks for the link.
 

Me too...thanks for the link......

He was a great story teller!

I use to listen to him at night on my 8 transistor radio! 

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Same here. I was a news-talk junkie before it was cool. My routine often was Cousin Brucie...then the Yankee game...and then Shepherd and Farber. Barry still does a nightly podcast.

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He was a great story teller!

I use to listen to him at night on my 8 transistor radio!

Me too, I used to listen to him in the late 1960's and into the 1970's on WOR AM radio in New York at 10:15 PM for an interesting story from Shep.  It was particularly effective to listen to his great stories while the room was dark!  Flick Lives!

Thanks for the link!

Wow! I thought I had every episode of Jean Shepherd's America on video, but, I never saw that one! Thanks! 

Make a note for the next time you watch A Christmas Story....when Ralphie and his brother get in line to see Santa, the well dressed man that tells them where the line begins is Jean Shepard. Had fun setting up trains for the movie; sadly I did not get to meet him. 

Lou N

Neat thanks for the link.

Thank You Chuck

Became familiar with Jean Shepherd as a teenager reading his monthly column in Car and Driver magazine 

He was a big car nut also --- told some great stories about the American spirit on the open road --- always put a smile on your face because the stories were always true

Talk to you soon

Joe S

Thanks for the link, Chuck! I'm a big fan and have read several of his books.

-Greg

I'm a big fan of Jean Shepherd. I used to listed to him at night on the radio when I was in college. I also liked his stories in Playboy Magazine. (Yes, I read the articles.) 

There were articles in Playboy?

Jean Shepherd was a recurring contributor to Playboy. The same type of hometown humor stories he is known for.

He was also a long-time columnist for Car and Driver magazine (he loved cars). Lots of humor. Always looked forward to those back in the day. A man of many interests.

My Dad listened to him and that's how I got hooked on him too when I was a kid in the late '50s.  He had a Saturday night broadcast every week from the Limelight in New York.  I would sit in the dark in my room (think it was the early/mid '60s) listening to him and gobbling crackers and Cheese Whiz.  Loved every minute.

     Hoppy

He was also once married to late actress Lois Nettlton.  She called into his radio show from northern Indiana.

After telling Shep that upon graduation from college I accepted a job in Allentown, Pa he gave me a personal rendition of Shep's famous story about driving from New York to Pennsylvania along Route 22. He gave typically detailed highlights(?) of all the furniture stores, including the one that looked like a ship, and the long drive through towns that featured diners every 2 miles and the seemingly hundreds of 'garden centers' on that highway. His famous quip was about the 'wooden Mexicans' that people put on their lawns.....wondering if in Mexico they put wooden Americans on their lawns. So typically Shep.