Recently on the Yahoo! Department 56 discussion group, they asked about some of the buildings from "A Christmas Story": The Joke Shop, The Firehouse, The Police Station, Pulaski's Candy Shop, The Optometry, etc. -- where did they appear in the movie or book?
I reached out to the current owner of the "A Christmas Story" licensing rights, Brian Jones, who offered some insight:
"The movie being 94 minutes long not all aspects of Ralphie's home town were shown. So Dept 56 took some creative license with buildings: the police and firemen that helped flick would have had to come from their stations. Ralphie directly mentions Pulaski's Candy store as the place Flick saw some grizzly bears. And to get the fake teeth for the joke on Miss Shield they might have bought them at the joke shop along with the rose that squirts that Flick or Schwartz was going to get their old man.
Pulaski's did actually appear in the sequel..."
The sequel was actually titled "My Summer Story" (book was titled "It runs in the family".
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