" Everybody thought I was a lunatic. What, you’re leaving a good-paying job in the Navy to go sell leg lamps?"
-- Brian Jones
Brian Jones, who now lives in Jacksonville, owns the house in Cleveland where they filmed “A Christmas Story,” the charmingly ramshackle, nostalgic 1983 movie that’s become a Christmas classic . He bought the place on Ebay, for $150,000. Sight unseen.
When he emailed his wife, Beverly, to tell her what he’d done, her reply — once she figured out he was serious — was just one line long.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Read more at the Florida Times-Union.