Once upon a time — in 1939 — a Montgomery Ward copywriter wrote a little poem to encourage holiday traffic in the store. The Chicago-based retailer passed out more than 2 million copies of Robert L. May’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” which told a sweet, uplifting story of a reindeer with an illuminated nose.
Ten years later, Gene Autry sang a song about Rudolph. And then in 1964, the animated TV movie — now the nation’s longest-running special — hit the airwaves.
Although the original story is quite different from the movie, who cares? America still loves Rudolph.
Here’s hoping for a foggy Christmas Eve in 2009 …
Via: Chron.com
