A Christmas Story House (flagpole)

At the Christmas Story House and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. July 13, 2013. 

A Christmas Story House (kitchen table)

The Room - the billboard

Tommy Wiseau spent five-thousand dollars a month—for five years—to keep this billboard up in Hollywood, CA, but it played a major role in the eventual commercial success of The Room.  Learn more (including how The Room was inspired by The Talented Mr. Ripley), in The Disaster Artist.

Charles S. Price (upside down)

The 504-foot Charles S. Price, upside down on Lake Huron, following the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, which occurred between November 7-10, 1913.

Swastika Nation

Everyone is familiar with Adolf Hitler and the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Few remember that in the mid- to late-1930s the United States experienced a Nazi movement of its own, one led by a radical anti-Semite who dreamed of a fascist America led by a Nazi president.  In the new book “Swastika Nation” (St. Martin’s Press), author Arnie Bernstein deftly chronicles the rise and fall of Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund.

A Christmas Story House gift shop

July 13, 2013: Opening day of the new A Christmas Story House gift shop.