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CHRISTMAS STORY HOUSE IS UP FOR SALE

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(FOX NEWS) – The house from the film "A Christmas Story"(2007)
has officially been put up for sale in Cleveland, Ohio.

The sale in its entirety makes up 1.3 acres of property, according
to a listing posted Monday on achristmasstoryhouse.com.

Chad Whitmer, the listing agent from the Northeast Ohio-based commercial real estate company Hoff and Leigh, said the listing
includes the house, the Bumpus house, the gift shop, museum
and a number of vacant lots that have been acquired by the
home’s current owner over the years.

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THE GREAHAM AREA’S FIRST SUPERMARKET


223rd and S.E. Stark in Gresham.  (1954)

    


1963

       

Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store
(above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the
area’s first supermarket.
 

The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished
in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a
new showroom and dealership in its place (below).

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CAPITOL CORNERSTONE LAID ON THIS DAY

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On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone
to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative
branch of American government. The building would take nearly
a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British
set fire to it and it was called into use during the
Civil War.

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The U.S. Capitol under construction, 1860

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

today in history

camilleb ap
CAMILLE
BOHANNON

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Sir George Ivan Morrison is 77 years old today.

Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose
recording career spans six decades. He has
won two
Grammy Awards.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CBOHANNON
CAMILLE BOHANNON

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Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a actor, director and producer
and the
recipient of various accolades
, including an Academy
Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award,
Presidential Medal of Freedom
. In 2014, two Golden Globe
Awards
, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Time named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s 36 today.

Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford’s television
career began in 1960, including an appearance on The
Twilight Zone
in 1962 (below).

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The Twilight Zone episode: "Nothing in the Dark."

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1969





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