Jan 12, 2023 · Initially, Shepherd was inspired to create the leg lamp after seeing a Nehi Soda advertisement. In 1966, Shepherd wrote about the leg lamp in his novel In God We Trust: All Other Pay Cash! This was the first time the leg lamp was described in detail, and it later appeared in the 1976 PBS film The Phantom of the Open Hearth .

Nehi (/ ˈniːhaɪ / NEE-hy[2]) is a flavored soft drink that originated in the United States. It was introduced in 1924 by Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works and founded by Claud A. Hatcher, a Columbus, Georgia, grocer who began bottling ginger ale and root beer in 1905. [1]

Dec 13, 2022 · According to A Christmas Story House and Museum (yep, there’s an entire museum dedicated to the subject—though it’s for sale, as of December 2022), Shepherd imagined the leg lamp after seeing an...

Dec 1, 2015 · The iconic leg lamp from A Christmas Story has to be one of the most bizarre and recognizable props in movie history.

Jul 17, 2009 · Shepherd was alluding to Nehi (pronounced knee-high) Cola, a popular fruit-flavored drink of the ’40s, which even had a print advertisement depicting a cola bottle beside, you guessed it, a women’s leg, from the heel to just above the knee.

It is this original sign - or another regional one very much like it - which apparently first inspired Shep to conceive of and later fully execute the now-famous Lamp. Like the Nehi sign originally described in detail by Shep in 1966, the East Chicago sign shows a silk-stockinged lady's leg, wearing a black spike-heeled shoe.

Nov 2, 2022 · Ralphie's dad initially stood to win $50,000 for solving the puzzle, but a consolation prize turned out to be the lamp which was the official insignia of a soda company called Nehi (pronounced "knee-high." Get it?).

Replicas of the leg lamp have become prized “Major Awards” for fans everywhere and are available in our gift shop. A Christmas Story author, Jean Shepherd was inspired to create the leg lamp after seeing an illuminated Nehi Soda advertisement.

Dec 8, 2023 · Jean Shepherd first got the idea for a leg shaped lamp after seeing a Nehi Soda advertisement featuring a pair of legs. Nehi’s signature image in their ads during the 30s and 40s was a pair of female legs. Nehi (pronounced “knee-high”) soda was introduced in 1924.

Dec 24, 2017 · With a gauzy nostalgia perfect for the holiday season, A Christmas Story, released in 1983, focuses on a nine-year-old boy’s obsession with receiving a Red Ryder BB Gun. But fans of period kitsch remember it fondly for introducing the iconic and ironic Leg Lamp.