One of my favorites is the Newport Beach boat parade!!
Posted on 12/06/2004 9:06:53 AM PST by NormsRevenge
>>Holiday Displays Take Over Neighborhoods
Notice that word in the headline...don't say Merry Christmas say Happy Hhhhhhhhholidays (I spell it that way because that's how Howie Carr jokingly speaks the phrase on his radio show)
or you won't be PC!
Word has it (it was discussed on WRKO/Boston this morning)
that--horrors--the mayor of the People's Republic of
Cambridge had issued invitations for a CHRISTMAS Party
and later wound up APOLOGIZING for the use of the
dreaded C-word! Oh, the humanity!!
Carolyn
I wanted to post a picture of the Biltmore Estate in lights and claim it was my house, but I can't find a picture.
One of my favorites is the Newport Beach boat parade!!
LOL!!!
those are GREAT!!!!!!!
Because the meat tastes funny if you eat them raw.
The Electric Company likes me at Christmas time :0)
HO HO HO .. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Sure does sound magical.
There is a town about 25 miles west that goes full tilt for Christmas. The only problem is they generally do not change from year to year.
I may do the garage in ice lights but that's about it.
$4M XMAS GIFT
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE ------------------------------------------------------------------------
December 5, 2004 -- With 37,000 volts and 50,000 miniature light bulbs, the city's most festive home this holiday season would put Rudolph's nose to shame.
"The Christmas House," or the Garabedian family's two-story home on Pelham Parkway in The Bronx, is electrifying thousands of daily visitors for the 30th consecutive year.
By the numbers, no home in the city offers a bigger holiday show. Enough electricity to operate 25 hair dryers is used to illuminate 130 homemade moving fiberglass statues, 30 decorated Christmas trees and a host of other fancy holiday treats.
"We don't just string up a bunch of lights," said Gary Garabedian, 40, who works with his parents, Eugene and Nelly, and his sisters, Elise, 48, and Linda, 47, to create and put up the detailed show. "We make absolutely everything out of fiberglass. We don't buy a thing except the Christmas trees that we decorate."
This year, the Garabedians' show - which is set up on both the front and side of their home - includes moving fiberglass statues of Frank Sinatra and the Rockettes, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Santa Claus and his reindeer, Cinderella and her horsemen and dozens of men and women in ballroom gear.
Several of the figures dance a waltz. One male figure proposes to his girlfriend. Liberace plays a realistic-looking "Steinway piano." A huge Nativity scene overlooks the entire display.
Music - which, oddly enough, does not usually include Christmas carols but hits by singers like Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra - plays constantly over loudspeakers, while 40 500-watt halogen lamps light up the scene.
Garabedian couldn't estimate the total cost, but his theft-insurance policy puts it at between $3 million and $4 million. "It's more of a Christmas show than a display," Garabedian said, adding that the neighbors don't complain.
The Garabedian family works on the show year-round, taking two to three days to create, paint and dress each figure. The display starts going up in September and comes down in January.
The house, which was featured in Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" video, receives between 5,000 and 20,000 visitors a night. "When it gets real close to Christmas, it takes two hours for cars to get down our street and look at the house," Garabedian said.
But the traffic backup is all for a good cause. Each year, the family collects about $3,000 in donations from visitors, which is given to diabetes charities through St. Theresa's Church in The Bronx. Garabedian said, "This is our Christmas gift to the community."
The house is located at 1605 Pelham Parkway North in The Bronx and is lit at 4:30 p.m. every day. It stays on as late as 2 a.m., according to Garabedian.
LOL. Need a picture of Clark kicking the reindeer and punching Santa.
You've never had "Penguins roasting on an open fire"?
LOL. Yes Laura Earl did a good job inside but I haven't taken and photos of my work outside yet, (at least as far as I can find).
But I found room for a few raindeers, other christmas lights and for an 8ft. Snowman :0)
The neighbors think I'm nuts .. but the kiddies get a kick out of it ..
Most of the Christmas displays here do share the real message of Christmas. They also share the nostalgia and childhood excitement. There's nothing wrong with that. Those that take the time to decorate their homes are sharing their joy with the community.
I love riding around looking at all of the lights. It just gets me in the Christmas mood, especially when it is still hot enough outside to need the a/c. Some of us like the lights and glitter yet know what we are celebrating God's greatest gift to us.
Does anyone one have the pic of Santa and presents plastered on the front of the airliner (737, I think)?
I need it for my wallpaper...
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