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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 20, 2008 03:13 PM
Chapter 7 of Jean Shepherd's(1) book "The Ferrari in the Bedroom" is about Johnson, Smith and Co. and is titled "The Rosetta Stone of American Culture"
-and I quote:
"Johnson Smith is to Man's darker side what Sears Roebuck represents to the clean-limbed soil-tilling righteous side., a rich compost heap of exploding cigars, celluloid teeth and Anarchist (stink) Bombs. The Johnson Smith catalog is a magnificent smudgy thumbprint of a totally lusty, vibrant, alive, crude Post Frontier society"
Notes:
1)You know: "A Christmas Story"..."You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!"
People from ‘round these parts may remember his nightly radio show.
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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