Yep, that's right, Allan. It's about a general period of time, of which were
my young years. Almost everything in that movie is relevant for me. Even in our small town (3000) one or two stores had Lionel Trains in the windows. Every boy I knew had either the Red Rider lever action or the Daisy pump gun!
And the coal furnace event brought back many memories. My father was ever bit
as good as Darren reading the riot act to our coal burner. I can remember he would go to the basement when it got cold in our home. There was loud shaking of the grates of the old coal burner, an some shoveling. He would call my mother to "open up the damper" with a gadget that was very like the one in the movie.Then upstairs we were treated to the barrage of foul language, and some nasty green gas. When it all went away, the house became warm again!
So much in the movie touches on what life was like, in particular for me, having been born in 1935 and living in that exact same era.
I wonder how many of you old guys can remember sending in your money for the latest Lionel Catalog, and waiting, waiting almost forever for it to arrive!
Almost as bad as Ralphie waiting for his decoder ring.
As Allan has said, the movie is about an era, not a specific time. And as such, as he has also said, there much familiar to a lot of us, especially us old geezers!
Ed Mullan
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