In the 1983 classic A Christmas Story, chaos breaks out in the family when Mr. Parker, the narrator’s father, receives an enormous lamp fashioned to look like a fishnet-clad leg balanced on a stiletto. More than a generation later, in November 2022, the small town of Chickasha, Oklahoma, erected a 40-foot-tall replica of the famous lamp, which rests atop a 10-foot-tall box marked “FRAGILE,” or as Mr. Parker says in the film, “Fra-gee-lay! It must be Italian.” So how did this slightly salacious piece of holiday kitsch wind up here? According to…
