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Here is a picture of our house. With the
house and the yard we display about 40,000 lights. This has been an
ongoing project for the last 35 years. About 3 years ago we retired the
C9 lights and went to minis. Jan D. Marshall
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The Giles family
has been decorating their home in Nashville, TN for the past 12 years.
They call their display "The JOYS OF CHRISTMAS" which has about 21,000
lights and features a working Lionel North Pole railroad, a full
nativity scene, Santa's Workshop (including his Elves), and a full
harness of reindeer with Rudolph leading the way. It has won awards in
the local Holiday Lights Contest and has been featured on two local
newscasts. It has been called "The Majic House" by some young viewers.
Come by Edge Moor Dr. and see it for yourself, and be sure to open a
window to hear some exciting seasonal music. Have yourself a "Merry
Little Christmas". Send comments or questions to Check out Tom's Giles
place!
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The
picture I have sent you was decorated all by me with approx. 10,000
lights and I would love it if you shared it with everyone you know. I
started a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah called Night Light Inc.
that installs Christmas decorations on other people's houses. In the 98
season we installed over 100,000 lights on homes. We also decorate a
tree in our Festival of Trees. Our website is as follows:
www.nli.homepage.com also:
nightlightinc@hotmail.com
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We live
at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast which is 100km's north of Brisbane and
we have been decorating for the last three years. We have
found decorating your home at Christmas to be very addictive once you
get going. Not knowing where to start, our daughter drew some drawings
on the garage floor and my husband bent, shaped and welded some
silhouettes, then attached some mini lights to the designs and created a
Wonderland of lights. Last year we had 10,000 mini lights on 36 designs
and we were the talk of the town. Our display allowed us to rethink our
future, and from the success of our light display we turned what started
off as a hobby into a business. We now sell our product to homes and
business throughout Australia. We have a web page which illustrates
what we do and who we are. You can locate this page at
www.santasworkshop.com.au |
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This is
Linda Wehmeyers place. A minor showing of all the Santa's and the way
our house is done...the house shown is the one bedroom guest house...and
the main house is much bigger...Check out more details by
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517 Maplegrove Drive (In MapleWood
Subdivision) in Franklin Tennessee. Number of lights: 10,000. Display
runs from November 26th until December 25th.
The display is computer controlled using DasherS. It is a windows based
program. See Jeff Barnette's website at
www.extremelighting.com |
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This is Doug's
place for 1998! "Just thought that since it was my idea to create this
space, my house should be the first to be shown here it is. Thanks again
for the great sight. I am learning a TON of great info!
I have surpassed my 10,000 light goal!
Next year's goal, 15,000! I know, I am still a small display but I am
also a rookie! I have a lot of years to go to be the same age as you
guys! Just imagine what I will have by the time I am 40!?" Doug's
Christmas Display can be reached at
tarzan@rttinc.com or check
out his website at
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/sylvanlights/ |
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Brent and Aaron
Sharp (brothers) had about 22,250 lights for 1998. They've been
decorating for 5 years in Savannah, Ga. Check out their web page at
http://members.aol.com/elloco7/index.html
or they can also be
emailed at ElLoco7@aol.com
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Matt Ryan, Hobbs,
NM, 1997 display. Hobbs is an oil town of about 30,000 people in
Southeast New Mexico. My 1997 display included approximately 4000
lights. For 1998, I hope to increase that number to 8000." Check out
more information at:
http://members.aol.com/xmasmatt/index.html |
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LOBETHAL (Meaning
Valley of Praise) is set in the picturesque Adelaide Hills, about 40km
SE of Adelaide, South Australia. The tradition of Lobethal's Christmas
Lights began over 50 years ago, when a few business men hand painted
globes to decorate their Main Street shops, for the Christmas Season.
This tradition spread, and now about 95% of the 800 homes and all the
business's in the village "light up" for Christmas, with a variety of
spectacular displays.Check out Bill & Pegs home page at
http://www.newave.net.au/~chartres/ |
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Here's a
sample of Larry and Suzanne's house in Manteno, IL. Every year it
keeps getting bigger, eveything now is run off 6--20amp circuits, room
for more lights. HD47HOG@aol.com |
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My cousin
lives on a bluff above Mission Bay (San Diego) so we erected it there to
catch a photo with a nice background. This is a life sized sailing ship
replica...135' long, over 100,000 mini lights...it is not a boat! This
is only wires, steel, pvc pipe and lights. It was only fully
illuminated, by a carnival sized generator, for about 5 minutes as not
to cause pile-ups on the freeway below.
Andy Renner
Executive Committtee Chairman <cybrpnch@keyway.net>
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Christmas 1997 by Jeff Simmons and Joe
Glenn of Rochester, PA. This is our 2nd year of decorating and 2nd year
of taking 5th place in a national Christmas Decorating Contest. We used
over 7,000 mini lights and are currently working on this years display.
email:
jsimmons@khitomer.com
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I am Christmas
light nut, too. we have been putting up lights for five years! This
year I have 18,000 . I have tunnel over my driveway with 3000 lights. I
live in St Louis. Here is a pic of last years lights. Thanks a lot
Mark Clements
MMCLEM1112@aol.com
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I am
Wade Johnson of Aiken, SC. I only have a few thousand lights. I have
been making my own Christmas Decorations for about seven years. I try
to add something new each year. You can see my pictures at
http://www.ifx.net/~wjohnson/page2.htm. |
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Our house
is located at Rita Ranch in Tucson. This house won the celebration of
lights contest for the local neighborhood. This contest is held every
year and the competition is really increasing as the Ranch grows.
Thank you very much.
Ed & Barbara Patterson
Tucson, Arizona |
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Not your
typical Texas house with a zillion Christmas lights but an
honest attempt! I live - it's North Richland Hills, TX - on
the northast side of Ft. Worth.
Marshal Valentino
valentinom@mindspring.com
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This is our house in Washington State.
We have approx 30,000 lights and cover nearly 2 acres. The display
can also be viewed from across the valley that we live in.
Mike Pedersen mike533@i-link-2.net
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This is Mark's
house in beautiful La Jolla, California. This is the 6th year of the
display which features 25,000 lights.
SURFCA2@aol.com
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Check out the
Obermiller house! A very impressive display of lights. Many more
pictures (and music) can be found at:
http://members.xoom.com/mobermiller/ |
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I live in Otto, NC (which is in Western NC) and have been decorating
for 15 years. My father & I made all the wooden cutouts. I
have also added curtain lights on the house a couple years ago and
many more lights on trees. Vickie Tallent... email me at
vtallent@smnet.net
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