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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
When I lived in Sarasota back in the 80s there was a neighborhood of million dollars home where they had a neighborhood competition. It was fantastic. People would come from 100 miles, park on the end of the street and spend hours there. A few houses had manger scenes with live animals.
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There is a street in the Hampden district of Baltimore where all of the residents decorate their homes in full-out Clark Griswold style and it has become such a city attraction that it snarls traffic for blocks especially on weekend nights during the Christmas season. Apparently the homeowners have also gotten together and agreed to a apply a deed restriction to their homes that a future buyer would have to agree to participate in the yearly light festival or they couldn't buy the house. In some ways it's really something to see and in another it's so over the top as to be far too much.
A couple years ago there was a big to-do about the display because Baltimore City police had begun showing up to direct traffic there on the weekends because of the huge volume of people showing up to view the displays. Some local grinches raised cane about "city tax dollars being wasted", but eventually the grinches were quieted. And the displays have gone on.
I vote for the poster who's going for the full 39 days!! Have at it!!