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Showing Off 2000
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I'm 17 years old and
my brother is 16. We put them up solely by ourselves with no parental
help or funding. We even had to pay the electrical bill. There's about
10,000 lights total (not all shown). Its only our second year doing the
lights. Nothing's computer control everything is just steady on. Steve
Anello [anello10@hotmail.com] |
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My display is in
Kissimmee, Florida. I've been doing my lights for the past ten years,
and this year I am using about 19,000 lights. Most of my decorations are
all hand made. You can see more of my lights at
http://www.christmaswonders.homestead.com Happy Holidays! Ron
Lister |
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Here is my house last
year. I took first place in our sub division contest. I wish I had a
better photo of the whole house but this is all I could find. This was
my second year doing this and had a blast doing it. I live
in Pflugerville, Texas. and we get a lot of traffic in the cul-de-sac.
I LOVE IT:) Mar0170@yahoo.com |
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This takes me about 3 full days to put up. I live in
Princeton In. I enjoy doing it. I get a lot of people driving by. I
enjoyed your site. Jeff Lutz [railman@gibsoncounty.net] |
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Walter Kotlarczyk in
Franklin, TN
[gatorwally@email.msn.com] |
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Our house is located in northwest Tucson, Az. My
husband and I are retired and we love to give back to the community ...
So we decorate our home with 45,000 lights and yard displays of over 220
stuffed bears. Our visitors have made it a tradition and always bring
can food for our local food bank .. We collected 2 1/2 tons of food
last year and hope to break that record this year... Klara Cristia
[rlk253@yahoo.com] |
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Merry Christmas from
Keith Portell, Jacksonville Florida
(k30@aol.com) |
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I live in Orlando,
Florida. I started putting up lights about 10 years ago. The displays
I use are made from patterns using Corplast or 1/4" wire frames. I have
also two 8ft trees and one 10ft tree that I made using PVC pipe. The
first picture shows Santa and his Reindeer coming in for a landing. I
make a runway of lights on my roof to show him the way. The runway is
also numbered, it may be a little hard to see but it is the number 25
(for Christmas day). The second picture is Santa in a helicopter. You
might also be able to see the lights that are hanging along the peek of
roof, I use these lights to simulate snow falling (it doesn't snow in
Orlando). I am an Air Traffic Controller so that my help explain the
aviation theme of my display. Happy Lighting, Pete Girard,
pgirard@cfl.rr.com
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Get a lot more details of
Travis's house!
http://community.webtv.net/ERNUL/MYFAMILYSCHRISTMAS |
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This is my 3rd year for
lighting my house, some of the lighting came from the US and some from
here in England. Next year I am going for the big one ! Lots more
lights from the US all powered by computer (programme being written now)
roll on next year!!
Have a fabulous Christmas,
Keith Woodward, Hampshire, England
k.woodward@ntlworld.com
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Checkout Peter Pauli's
place and be sure to goto his website at
http://www.homestead.com/lightsofchristmas/1999.html (it also has
his 2000 pictures.)
pjpauli@gosfgiants.com |
 
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This is half of our Christmas
2000 display at Santa's Workshop on the Sunshine Coast Queensland
Australia. We have 56 brightly coloured Christmas silhouettes displayed
on our home, gardens, under our waterfall, on the pond and in the
gazebo. All of the lights on the silhouettes are hand painted with over
100 transformers and are run by the wonderful "Dasher" computer program.
It is a combination of illumination, imagination and animation that
casts an aura on openmouthed onlookers young and old. We would like to
take the opportunity of wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and a
happy, healthy and safe year 2001. Best wishes from Kerrie & Livio.
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Here are 2 photo's of our house. The second one was taken from an
airplane at 500 feet above the ground. My display consists of 110,000
lights, 31 strobe lights, and 4.5 miles of extension cords. It is a
computer controlled display using Dasher as the programming software.
My light show is 26 minutes long. For more info, my web page address is
www.computerchristmaslights.com
Mark
Obermiller |
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Here are my pictures for 2,000
display. This year i have 105,000 lights with a lot of animation.
thanks Josh Barnett
Decorguy@aol.com
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This is the Bisignano family
Christmas display is on Teri Court in Jackson, New Jersey. The display
consists of 50,000 + lights, minis, c7's and C9's. There are over 80
blowmolds on the lawn, including: Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, Tiger,
Snoopy, Santa, Snowman, Ms. Claus, soldiers, nutcrackers, Sleigh and 9
reindeer, candles, candy canes, carolers, and many more and over 75 wire
frame figures, including a horse and carriage, 20 foot train, carolers,
nativity, 6 soldiers and a cannon, deer, horses, sleds, large and small
snowflakes and many more. The windows are outlined in shredded gold foil
and have over 25 moving dolls in them, including a 5 foot Santa Claus
and 5 foot Ms. Claus. We also feature a 8 foot high hand made sign
wishing everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The
Bisignano's. sbisigna@lehman.COM |
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This is a picture of another
Bisignano Family Christmas display on Teri Court in Jackson, New Jersey.
The display features over 20000 mini lights. The display also includes
white wire, deer, sleds, a precious moment nativity set, a 12 foot by 6
foot Santa in a helicopter. In addition, there are over 15 one
dimensional Christmas displays featured in the display.
sbisigna@lehman.COM |
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This is the D'ambrosia Family
Christmas display on Teri Court in Jackson, New Jersey. The display
features over 40,000 lights. The display has white > wire deer, angels,
snowmen, sleds and moving deer. There is a hand made 40 foot by 2 foot
sign that wishes everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The widow
theme is Disney and features over 15 moving Disney characters.
sbisigna@lehman.COM |
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One of Osceola County’s largest
& oldest Home Christmas Displays. Over 40,000 Lights, A 28’ Long Merry
Christmas Sign on the roof spells out Merry Christmas one letter at a
time. Yard Displays including a Large Nativity Scene and a tree with
800 Lights that changes four different colors. Two Large Animated Scenes
in the Garage, Santa’s Workshop with a life size animated Santa Claus
with animated elves and Disney Characters, and an animated Snow Scene
with snow babies. Everyone is welcome to walk up and view the display.
Lighted every night from 6PM to 11PM until New Years Day. Animated Home
Christmas Display, Home of Larry & Rachel Charpiat 2361 Ruth Lane
Kissimmee, Florida 34744
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Last year I had over
10,000 people come through my display. Christmas lighting truly warms
your heart when you see the joy it brings to others. This year I have
over 40,000 lights. Have added a 24 foot tall castle, 28 foot long
screen of the Northwind blowing snowflakes, 30 foot long display of
twinkling stars, 3 deer for a total of 10, the penguin flock has
increased to 7 and a moose. We have been in the deep freeze here in
Duluth, MN and I have been able to make lots of ice candles also. I have
my garden house open to the public and serve hot chocolate and make a
guest book available to sign. The second picture is of my Northwind.
It's hard to choose just one photo to post since I have an extremely
large area of lights. More info is posted on my web site at
www.marciahales.org Merry
Christmas!!! Happy holidays, Marcia Hales 3739 Lake Avenue South
Duluth, MN 55802 |
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Thanks for a great
place to visit at this time of the year. Hope you like our snow effect.
Also, I write stories for children...three of them with Christmas
themes. If curious visit me at
www.brilesbooks.com Ho! Ho! James Briles [jbriles@ameritech.net]
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This is the Scalisi's Christmas
display on Teri Ct, In Jackson New Jersey. We feature over 40,000+
lights, including animated 20 foot train, and an animated horse and
carriage, and an animated bell. Life size nativity scene, 4 man made
arches,10' Merry Christmas candy cane arch, and a 20 ' Happy Holiday
sign. Mr. & Mrs. Claus, Frosty, Santa, and Rudolph blowmolds, 50
soldiers, 2- 10' wooden shoulders, carolers, skaters, and many many more
wire figures including the misfits, and soldiers, and deer. 3D fading
star, and moving angel. Vinny Scalisi,
VScalisi@christies.com |
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Here is a picture of my house
in Federal Way, WA. I have been doing it for the past 4 or 5 years and
love the attention. There are around 15,000 lights. I am moving for next
year and it will be better. Terry Steffensen
bassmants@earthlink.net |
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This is the Salsbach family home on the island of Bonaire in the
Netherlands Antilles. Bonaire is an island in the Caribbean 50 miles
north of Venezuela. Every year they have a different Christmas
display. Hope you enjoy them. Many more pictures at link below.
Ellen Muller
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We doubled our lights this
year. 6000 to 11,000. 15 wood decorations. A grinch scene. Hanging
ornaments from the roof. winner of the Neighborhood Watch Light contest
1999 and 2000.
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Here is a front and back
picture of our house in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada. We put up
31,000 Christmas lights this year, mostly minis. We anticipate our power
bill will be about $800. The lights are on from 5:30 to 9:30 pm Dec. 3
to Jan. 1. Our town makes the lane behind our home one way traffic for
the month. Alfred von Hollen
avonhollen@wrsd.ab.ca |
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We put up 59,690 lights this year. We were also mentioned along with
you in the Southern Living article this year. Best wishes for a Very
Merry Christmas
Andrew Jezioro |
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Hi Chuck, here is a couple pics of my display, truly
beautiful live. Let me know if they make it on your page. J. J.
Purpura Gainesville, FL |
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a few from Tasmania, Australia Downunder Harry
Smith |
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Hello, my name is Randy Mein,I
live in San Jose,California. Just thought you might like a picture of
my house,10,000,lights.
RANDYSMASTIFSRMY@aol.com
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Here are some pictures
of our display. As you can see no area is left undecorated, inside and
out. It takes me almost three weeks (starting in October to get it all
out and up) because I do it mostly by myself. My husband is kind enough
to do the roof work because I have a tendency to fall off of ladders,
but everything else is my work alone. The lights go on Veteran's day and
are on every night through New Year's day. I have been collecting
Christmas items since our wedding day in December of 1967. As I am sure
you can identify with, it is additive and soooooo much fun. Our display
last year included over 35,000 lights outside and an additional 20,000
on the inside. Needless to say we don't use any regular lighting in
November and December. Our display in 2001 will include over 50,000
outside lights, a Whoville complete with Grinch, a Disney area, a Looney
tunes area, a North Pole site, plus much more. Daniel R. Caron [dcaron@hot.rr.com] |
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The house has a total
of 42,000 lights controlled by 2 P.C.s. It doesn't use the X10 Modules
as used by yourself and others but a similar system connected to the
parallel port and driving banks of SSR's and relays. I do have about 30
of the control modules similar to the X10 units but no controller. Bill
Stone [bedrock22@bigpond.com.au] |
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