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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 Thank You, Dan Tidwell |
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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
clicking
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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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