If you listen closely when Ralphie's father is working on the furnace Darren McGavin is trying to make it sound like he's saying fake swear words and he accidentally says the s-word if you listen closely. When it is aired on TNT and TBS they have to mute that part out because it sounds so close to that swear word lol!
One of my favorites. Darren McGavin kind of reminded me of my dad in this movie. He died April of 83. The next summer my aunt and uncle brought it to our house to watch. Laughed till I cried. Thank you Bob Clark for writing this wonderful Christmas classic. And thank you sir for the great tour.
Bob Clark was the director of the movie. It was Jean Shepherd who wrote the story....who can also be seen in the movie as the guy who told Ralphie they were cutting in the Santa Claus line.
Every year the owner has an auction on eBay to win 3 days in the house on Christmas. I checked this past Christmas and the winning bid was over $8,000 but what an experience!!!! I'd love to stay here this is one of my favorite movies.
I have heard of this place for quite some time, though I had no idea the set was replicated with this much detail. The only thing I've noticed missing are the damper controls and the big baseboard diffusers that were common with the old gravity furnaces. The type of floor register near the Christmas tree did not exist before the 1970's. Otherwise, I am totally blown away by the amount of pain staking work this had to be.
I stopped at the house when I was in Cleveland a few years back! What a great job they did to recreate the house. The back yard is even set up the same way as it was in the movie with the shed and fence. The house does sit on a bluff overlooking the river and the steel mills on the other bank (as seen in the opening scene of the move).
That's really cool! So glad someone did that. I went to the Harry potter set tours & this reminded me of that, so much detail to look at. Something so magical and nice about people saving great memories from movies! :)
The Pole that looked to be metal in the movie is actually made of pvc and was painted to look like rusted metal and it had a hole cut in it for his tongue to go in.
According to some of the staff, some of the interior shots were in that house. In certain scenes, if the front window curtains were open, it was in that house, curtains closed, then they were shot on the sound stage.
just a great tour, they didn't miss a thing and I'm one of the lucky ones to have seen it when it was released and know every prop, just one more thing, that tree was in the middle of the room at the large window and the last scene was of Dad and Mon admiring it as the snow gently fell
I would love to visit this house...A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. But I noticed a few mistakes that are in the house that aren't consistent with the movie. No1. Ralphie and Randy's room wasn't at the top of the stairs, it was past the bathroom at the end of the hall (according to the soap scene). No2. The boys' room wasn't all done in the sailboat wall paper, only 3 walls were like that the other wall was painted. No3. The toilet is on the wrong wall and the tile in the movie only goes half way up the wall and the rest of the wall is painted blue.I would still love to visit this house one day.
+Eugene Hensley yep, idiots, if they gutted the hole place to make it how its suspose to be, there no excuse for it not to be right. the room that they have made up like there room is not only wrong its not even there room that was the parents room, there room was on the other side of the house. pshhhh
there also is no dining room in this house.. you rarely see it in the movie but there are some scenes that show a dining room that connects to the kitchen & living room
It could be the camera distorting the perspective but that house looks very spacious for its time. I've been in so many and they seemed to have been built for midgets. What a comfy looking home. :)
I actually was born and raised in East Central Indiana about 20 minutes north east of Muncie, Indiana now live in Maryland. I always go past the exit for Cleveland in Cambridge when I travel back home on I-70.
On TBS. Watching over and over again. Also check out the "goofs" and "trivia". Pretty interesting stuff. It is actually how I found out about this house.
Yes, I was initially thinking the same thing. When I first saw the real house here redone, I was crying 'foul'. How come the interiors were not really exact. But then I found out that the interiors were NOT filmed in the actual house, but rather a set. The set was also much larger than the real house so that is why the differences.
Thank you. Just love the tour. It's not Xmas in my house until we sit down nd watch Christmas Story. MANGIE MUTS, BUMBASUS!!!! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!!
That was cool. Watching it right now, LOL Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy Celebrated Birthday Jesus. Keith Noneya
I got to go to this place with my folks in September 2015...my dad got to dress in the "pink nightmare" bunny pajamas. Best part of going to Cleveland other than the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum :)
(cont) large triple pane window, that space is MUCH larger in the interior shots. Since the new owner of the house gutted it from a multi family dwelling, one could only guess what the original layout actually was. Amazingly he was able to recreate at least 90% of the interior as it was in the movie.
(cont) actual house plumbing and what was easiest / most cost effective to do. But it is true that they managed to find the same kitchen sink...why not have the actual toilet as well. Also to my knowledge, since the interiors were filmed on a set, the set was actually larger than the house itself, thus the reason for the location of the kitchen door and the omission of the dining room. If you look in the movie at the front windows from the inside, the space between the single window and the
Actually in another video there is a clump of cords and adapters they have on the floor near the 'outlet'. But yeah, the Zeppelin would have been a nice touch. I think there is a picture of Ralphie in the bunny suit in the kitchen. The entire bathroom is actually in the wrong spot. As I recall in the movie, the door is directly across from the phone at the top of the stairs. Which would put it where that 'sewing room' is. Of course the bathroom location/layout would have to do with the
Ok, so far I am learning that the interiors are different due to the fact that the movie had the interiors filmed in a studio set. But it just seems like they could have recreated the parents bedroom. At about 6:14 you see the door to the 'parents' room and it says "Emergency Exit Only ...alarm will sound..." How could that be? That isn't an exit! I am wondering if that room is used as a caretakers room and that sign is put there to prevent people from just opening that door and looking in.
My aunt has a Christmas Story leg lamp:P Its just like the real thing except its plastic instead of glass. At least it being plastic its not as "frag-e-lay" lol. Also a friend of my moms has a sink like that just without the cabinet. I think her house is like 100 yrs old or something.
LOL, Another thing I just realized in which it was an error on the movie's part. When Ralphie's mom sends him to his room after a taste of Life Buoy soup from the 'fudge' incident, he goes in the opposite direction towards the parents room, his room is the opposite way.
Question (for BuyLegLamps): Why does the 'parent's room' have a sign on it that says "Emergency Exit Only ...alarm will sound"? (6:15 in clip above) That just doesn't seam feasible as an exit unless someone would climb out the window and down the porch roof. I surmised that a caretakers room and the sign just prevents people from going in there. However, I have seen in other clips that people have mentioned staying at the house, would that be the guests room then?
Ok, I am back again after doing some hard thinking, it turns out that my comment below is wrong, the movie is actually correct. However, the house once again differs. Apparently what would have been the parents bedroom in the movie is Ralphie's and Randy's room in the house above. I got the orientation of the stairway wrong. Two things corrected that. Seeing pictures of the back of the house above, there is only one small window. Also looking out the 'boys bedroom' window clearly shows
(cont) the street and not the backyard as it did in the movie. As an after thought, the house has a third floor gable room of which was not shown in the movie. Given the emergency exit sign I saw in the video and rethinking things, now I am lead to believe the house above has a second stairway in the back that would be necessary to access the third floor. So I can see how that put the owner in a pickle when recreating the house. There simply wasn't enough room in the real house.
That is so boss!!! Man, how did you get to spend the night and do the owners live there, do they have 24/7 severity? This is definitely going on my bucket list!
What's interesting to me is this movie wasn't really an instant classic. You rarely saw this movie the first 10 to 12 years after it came out. It didn't really catch on until turner started showing it alot in the late 90's
you gotta have the car out there especially in the snow....like in the movie. You could even buy a non running car like it just as a prop and leave it there. All it would have to have is a good paint job and air in the tires...even if the engine and transmission was not in it.
Lily Emma Lindsay actually it's based out of Indiana. The author grew up Hoosier as did I, and his books, plays and movies are on display all throughout Indiana
It's very well done, but it bugs me that it isn't laid out like it was in the movie. Why is that? The dining room is completely missing, and the kitchen should be behind it. When you walk in you should see a closet door, not the kitchen. In the movie, the staircase was in the middle of the house, but here it is where the dining room should be.
No, you seen the house in this video, it's in Cleveland. I was born in and grew up in Hammond in the 70's-80's, and ironically, I now live 35 miles from Cleveland, where the house in the movie is...to prove I grew up there : The name of the town in the movie is Hohman, and it is a street in Hammond. It's been over 20 yrs. since I left Hammond, and I think Hohman was in the middle of down town, right? Where the Parthenon movie theater, Goldblatts, Army Navy surplus were, right?
My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.
If you listen closely when Ralphie's father is working on the furnace Darren McGavin is trying to make it sound like he's saying fake swear words and he accidentally says the s-word if you listen closely. When it is aired on TNT and TBS they have to mute that part out because it sounds so close to that swear word lol!
One of my favorites. Darren McGavin kind of reminded me of my dad in this movie. He died April of 83. The next summer my aunt and uncle brought it to our house to watch. Laughed till I cried. Thank you Bob Clark for writing this wonderful Christmas classic. And thank you sir for the great tour.
Bob Clark was the director of the movie. It was Jean Shepherd who wrote the story....who can also be seen in the movie as the guy who told Ralphie they were cutting in the Santa Claus line.
Watching that movie on Thanksgiving day has been a tradition in my family.
Wow 6 years ago! Happy holidays I hope you are still carrying on your tradition 😀🍰🎄
A Christmas Story is an extremely rare "perfect" movie.
Not like Home Alone.
It's phantom of the open hearth that is the perfect movie!
It is perfect. One of my top ten all time favorites.
the stray cat was the Bumpus' dogs in spirit!
Every year the owner has an auction on eBay to win 3 days in the house on Christmas. I checked this past Christmas and the winning bid was over $8,000 but what an experience!!!! I'd love to stay here this is one of my favorite movies.
I was there 3 years ago they wanted 1000 for the Christmas eve Christmas day pack? Where did u get 8k from?
Amazing. I now have a reason to visit Cleveland.
I have heard of this place for quite some time, though I had no idea the set was replicated with this much detail. The only thing I've noticed missing are the damper controls and the big baseboard diffusers that were common with the old gravity furnaces. The type of floor register near the Christmas tree did not exist before the 1970's. Otherwise, I am totally blown away by the amount of pain staking work this had to be.
Can you do neseg
I went on a tour of the A Christmas Story House yesterday :-)
Lucky I want to visit this house so bad my favourite Christmas movie ever my favourite 3 movie ever
I am Santa Claus and I approve this video!
I stopped at the house when I was in Cleveland a few years back! What a great job they did to recreate the house. The back yard is even set up the same way as it was in the movie with the shed and fence. The house does sit on a bluff overlooking the river and the steel mills on the other bank (as seen in the opening scene of the move).
Modeltnick I want the lifebuoy soap Modeltnick
Modeltnick it's actually in Hammond INDIANA
That's really cool! So glad someone did that. I went to the Harry potter set tours & this reminded me of that, so much detail to look at. Something so magical and nice about people saving great memories from movies! :)
The Pole that looked to be metal in the movie is actually made of pvc and was painted to look like rusted metal and it had a hole cut in it for his tongue to go in.
Watching the 24 hr marathon now in2017, it never gets old.
The music makes it. Thanks
According to some of the staff, some of the interior shots were in that house. In certain scenes, if the front window curtains were open, it was in that house, curtains closed, then they were shot on the sound stage.
Discovered it a couple of years ago here in the uk. Got it for christmas on dvd love it!
just a great tour, they didn't miss a thing and I'm one of the lucky ones to have seen it when it was released and know every prop, just one more thing, that tree was in the middle of the room at the large window and the last scene was of Dad and Mon admiring it as the snow gently fell
i love that movie
I would love to visit this house...A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. But I noticed a few mistakes that are in the house that aren't consistent with the movie. No1. Ralphie and Randy's room wasn't at the top of the stairs, it was past the bathroom at the end of the hall (according to the soap scene). No2. The boys' room wasn't all done in the sailboat wall paper, only 3 walls were like that the other wall was painted. No3. The toilet is on the wrong wall and the tile in the movie only goes half way up the wall and the rest of the wall is painted blue.I would still love to visit this house one day.
Its not exact cause they didn't film in this house but it was filmed in a replica of it
+Eugene Hensley yep, idiots, if they gutted the hole place to make it how its suspose to be, there no excuse for it not to be right. the room that they have made up like there room is not only wrong its not even there room that was the parents room, there room was on the other side of the house. pshhhh
there also is no dining room in this house.. you rarely see it in the movie but there are some scenes that show a dining room that connects to the kitchen & living room
It could be the camera distorting the perspective but that house looks very spacious for its time. I've been in so many and they seemed to have been built for midgets.
What a comfy looking home. :)
wow it has changed so much since this video
Cacti88 ik
Loved the video!!!! I was there a few years ago and it was fantastic!!!!!
I'm so happy!! Yesterday my mom took us to see the house in person!! 😁😁 We were also lucky because we live in Ohio lol
I actually was born and raised in East Central Indiana about 20 minutes north east of Muncie, Indiana now live in Maryland. I always go past the exit for Cleveland in Cambridge when I travel back home on I-70.
Did they ever get around to replacing the furnace? :)
On TBS. Watching over and over again. Also check out the "goofs" and "trivia". Pretty interesting stuff. It is actually how I found out about this house.
had to add that thi movie brings back so many memories...hopefully soon ill be able to spend the night as well with my family....thx for the vid!!
I wanna see the furnace vent!
"For cripes' sake open up the damper willya!!"
I wanna go there so bad I’m a big Christmas Story fan and watch it every Christmas Eve.
Yes, I was initially thinking the same thing. When I first saw the real house here redone, I was crying 'foul'. How come the interiors were not really exact. But then I found out that the interiors were NOT filmed in the actual house, but rather a set. The set was also much larger than the real house so that is why the differences.
Thank you. Just love the tour. It's not Xmas in my house until we sit down nd watch Christmas Story. MANGIE MUTS, BUMBASUS!!!! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!!
That was cool. Watching it right now, LOL Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings.
Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy Celebrated Birthday Jesus. Keith Noneya
It'll be my dream to spend one night there with my family and pretend I'm just like the movie, I'd even have the same mash potato dinner 😃
I would almost be afraid to stay there in the way that messing anything up that they staged it looks like you can't even use the kitchen.
I got to go to this place with my folks in September 2015...my dad got to dress in the "pink nightmare" bunny pajamas. Best part of going to Cleveland other than the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum :)
And did you know that's where Paul Newman is from?
I didn't know that :)
Thanks for sharing! I sure would like to spend a night there and at the home alone house too!
(cont) large triple pane window, that space is MUCH larger in the interior shots. Since the new owner of the house gutted it from a multi family dwelling, one could only guess what the original layout actually was. Amazingly he was able to recreate at least 90% of the interior as it was in the movie.
how did you guys get to spend the night there???
Google it its like 395 a night as a special surprise i might take my parents and my girl and kids there next year
@@kevinjohnson9372 That's actually not terrible considering that it is so well replicated to the studio!
(cont) actual house plumbing and what was easiest / most cost effective to do. But it is true that they managed to find the same kitchen sink...why not have the actual toilet as well. Also to my knowledge, since the interiors were filmed on a set, the set was actually larger than the house itself, thus the reason for the location of the kitchen door and the omission of the dining room. If you look in the movie at the front windows from the inside, the space between the single window and the
Actually in another video there is a clump of cords and adapters they have on the floor near the 'outlet'. But yeah, the Zeppelin would have been a nice touch. I think there is a picture of Ralphie in the bunny suit in the kitchen. The entire bathroom is actually in the wrong spot. As I recall in the movie, the door is directly across from the phone at the top of the stairs. Which would put it where that 'sewing room' is. Of course the bathroom location/layout would have to do with the
I really have to see this house in person, I wanna go inside and explore. I was raised on the movie.
Good thing you guys didn't "accidentally" break the leg lamp replica lol! Oh well just get another one from the museum across the street right😆.
Love that 🎥 movie
great tour!!
Hmm, I think I see why. I noticed that there was a door with an emergency exit sign. That must be why the layout was changed, to make room for that.
you should have waited till december! but still really cool!
great video, i loved the tour!
Thanks for sharing
Wait does anyone know how they got the key to the house please let me know
When was this house built? 1898 right?
@mark; how can it be the real house when it wasn't filmed in Indiana, not a single shot
Very cool!🎄😄
Thank you for this video!
Ok, so far I am learning that the interiors are different due to the fact that the movie had the interiors filmed in a studio set. But it just seems like they could have recreated the parents bedroom. At about 6:14 you see the door to the 'parents' room and it says "Emergency Exit Only ...alarm will sound..." How could that be? That isn't an exit! I am wondering if that room is used as a caretakers room and that sign is put there to prevent people from just opening that door and looking in.
we went there today. it was pretty damn cool.
My aunt has a Christmas Story leg lamp:P Its just like the real thing except its plastic instead of glass. At least it being plastic its not as "frag-e-lay" lol. Also a friend of my moms has a sink like that just without the cabinet. I think her house is like 100 yrs old or something.
Best movie ever ralphie flick and Schwartz are bff I love Christmas story so much
LOL, Another thing I just realized in which it was an error on the movie's part. When Ralphie's mom sends him to his room after a taste of Life Buoy soup from the 'fudge' incident, he goes in the opposite direction towards the parents room, his room is the opposite way.
Question (for BuyLegLamps): Why does the 'parent's room' have a sign on it that says "Emergency Exit Only ...alarm will sound"? (6:15 in clip above) That just doesn't seam feasible as an exit unless someone would climb out the window and down the porch roof. I surmised that a caretakers room and the sign just prevents people from going in there. However, I have seen in other clips that people have mentioned staying at the house, would that be the guests room then?
Not all the interior shots were on a soundstage. If the drapes were open, it was in the actual house.
This house appears to be drafty, as you can see daylight from underneath the sink. In fact, it just looks like the cedar siding as the wall. No rats?
Ok, I am back again after doing some hard thinking, it turns out that my comment below is wrong, the movie is actually correct. However, the house once again differs. Apparently what would have been the parents bedroom in the movie is Ralphie's and Randy's room in the house above. I got the orientation of the stairway wrong. Two things corrected that. Seeing pictures of the back of the house above, there is only one small window. Also looking out the 'boys bedroom' window clearly shows
(cont) the street and not the backyard as it did in the movie. As an after thought, the house has a third floor gable room of which was not shown in the movie. Given the emergency exit sign I saw in the video and rethinking things, now I am lead to believe the house above has a second stairway in the back that would be necessary to access the third floor. So I can see how that put the owner in a pickle when recreating the house. There simply wasn't enough room in the real house.
That is so boss!!! Man, how did you get to spend the night and do the owners live there, do they have 24/7 severity? This is definitely going on my bucket list!
Where are the Bumpeses?
they should have a 1939 oldsmobile in the drive like in the movie. That would really be cool
Are those screen used props from the movie or replicas?
What's interesting to me is this movie wasn't really an instant classic. You rarely saw this movie the first 10 to 12 years after it came out. It didn't really catch on until turner started showing it alot in the late 90's
So none of the movie was actually filmed inside the house?
Technically, "Fudge" is not a bad word. Ralphie did say "Fudge" but, his parents thought he said the "F" word. Paused at 5:08
+Chris Nicholas "only I didn't say fudge" - from the movie
He said the "F dash, dash, dash" word
He clearly said “only i didnt say fudge.” In the movie.
I have a leg lamp
Omgosh you guys paid that to stay???? Was it worth it????
The inside of the house was a gutted out rental and not the same structure inside at all like the movie set
you gotta have the car out there especially in the snow....like in the movie. You could even buy a non running car like it just as a prop and leave it there. All it would have to have is a good paint job and air in the tires...even if the engine and transmission was not in it.
I wanna visit someday. It's in Ohio & I live in Utah.
Lily Emma Lindsay actually it's based out of Indiana. The author grew up Hoosier as did I, and his books, plays and movies are on display all throughout Indiana
Lily Emma Lindsay
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Ive been in that house before.
You forgot about when ralphe cried when he had a bad day
It is a cool place to see
I want to go
Me and my fiance visiting the house next year he got family from Akron Ohio hour from Cleveland
Where was the dining room
It's very well done, but it bugs me that it isn't laid out like it was in the movie. Why is that? The dining room is completely missing, and the kitchen should be behind it. When you walk in you should see a closet door, not the kitchen. In the movie, the staircase was in the middle of the house, but here it is where the dining room should be.
So cool would love to stay overnight
The real house is in Hammond, Indiana right down the street from me! Merry Christmas
No, you seen the house in this video, it's in Cleveland.
I was born in and grew up in Hammond in the 70's-80's, and ironically, I now live 35 miles from Cleveland, where the house in the movie is...to prove I grew up there : The name of the town in the movie is Hohman, and it is a street in Hammond. It's been over 20 yrs. since I left Hammond, and I think Hohman was in the middle of down town, right? Where the Parthenon movie theater, Goldblatts, Army Navy surplus were, right?
Hohman Avenue runs along Stateline. Goldblatts army navy and the theater are all gone now. Hammond is basically just a run down ghetto.
and wasnt the xmas tree in the corner near the desk?
How ironic that it ends with a "crummy commercial" ha ha ha
i thought the movie was filmed in Toronto????
That isn't the same style table they ha. My Sister has one exactly like the one in the movie. She still uses it. .
Is the parents bedroom there?
cool
My uncle, and his family went there one year, and he said they have the actual Oldsmobile from the movie at the gift shop.
wheres the basement?
@3:34 he buried the leg lamp next to the garage.
I have to go!!!!
Not, a stray cat...a fan of the movie! : )
Wait..you can SPEND THE NIGHT in the house?
i have met the actors
Wish they would let us do this for the Home Alone (a true Christmas classic) house. Nice vid though.
3200$ to stay in it for 1 night??
closed christmas...funny!!
My brother looks like Ralph