jaylake: I don't believe the movie says explicitly -- and I expect the audience of Boomers most presume it matches their experience -- but it's full of '30s cars and adapts stories published in the mid-60s about the childhood of a man born in 1921. Also remember that major plot points key off radio shows. It's pretty clearly pre-war.
Please remember that the purpose of Editorial Explanations is to explain and to expand knowledge, rather than to engage in any partisan bickering. All cartoonists are completely correct, in their own worlds.
Actually, I think A Christmas Story is set post-WWII, like the baby boom itself, not during the Depression, which was pre-WWII.
ReplyDeletejaylake: I don't believe the movie says explicitly -- and I expect the audience of Boomers most presume it matches their experience -- but it's full of '30s cars and adapts stories published in the mid-60s about the childhood of a man born in 1921. Also remember that major plot points key off radio shows. It's pretty clearly pre-war.
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