#TriviaTuesday - What holiday film classic was based upon the book, “In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash?”

Published in 1966, “In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash’” was the inspiration for the 1983 movie, “A Christmas Story.”

Written by Jean Shepherd, whose winsome voice later provided the narration in the movie, the book recalls a  childhood and adolescence that’s resonated with the public for decades. Shepherd appears briefly in the film, admonishing the young protagonist Ralphie to go to the end of a very long Santa line.

Shepherd, a longtime radio/TV personality, worked for a time in Cincinnati.

Available at MidPointe Library, “In God We Trust…” is a “wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth.” (*) Another Shepherd book, “The Ferrari In the Bedroom,” as well as copies of “A Christmas Story” on DVD are available at MidPointe Library.

(*) From the cover of “In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd, large print edition published in 1966 by Beeler Large Print, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

Photo of Jean Shepherd from the Radio Hall of Fame website: http://www.radiohalloffame.com/jean-shepherd