What is the setting of A Christmas Story?

What is the setting of A Christmas Story?

The setting for the movie was based on Hammond, Indiana the home town of author Jean Sheperd. Sheperd grew up on Cleveland St and went to Warren G. Harding Elementary School.

When did A Christmas Story take place?

Set in December 1940, the film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker reminiscing on one particular Christmas when he was nine years old in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana.

Was Christmas Story Christmas filmed in Cleveland?

When the Cleveland house where the movie was filmed (at 3159 W. 11th Street) went up for sale on eBay in 2004, Christmas Story fanatic Brian Jones bought it for $150,000.