MY MEMORIES - We also decorated my childhood home (usually I volunteered to put up the lights with my dad), but it was nothing like the crazy, elaborate displays of today. We would light up three big trees that formed a triangle on our corner lot, and then the front row of bushes, that extended to the side of the house.
This Massachusetts house’s Christmas lights display is so good it’s causing traffic problems
The Boston Globe published a story about a young 22 year old guy (he must be a multi-millionaire) who created his own structures to resemble a street full of houses, and lit them all up. Here's the image and a video from ABC Network television about the display. (It must be from 2019, pre-pandemic, and the display is up again this year).
By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com Staff
December 14, 2020
This isn’t the first year that Charles Fiore’s all-out Christmas lights display just off I-93 in Wilmington has gotten attention.
But this is the first time it’s gotten so much.
Last week, Fiore’s family house and elaborate drive-through display — both of which he quite literally covered with lights — on Concord Street took the $50,000 first-place prize on ABC’s reality TV show “The Great Christmas Light Fight.” In addition to standing up a full-size set of intricate building facades, the 23-year-old explained that he spaced out each strand of lights by two and half inches, the same distance between each bulb on the strand. “I just wanted to make a perfect square of lights so everything was uniform,” Fiore said on the show, impressing judge Taniya Nayak.
“The traffic has been pretty significant,” Wilmington Deputy Police Chief Brian Pupa told Boston.com on Monday.
“Between the national notoriety and the pandemic, where people are restricted to where they can go, those things have kind of led to the situation where it’s more popular than ever,” Pupa said. FULL STORY: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/12/14/wilmington-christmas-lights-traffic-problems?s_campaign=Email:BComToday&SUBID=d7882715bb&AUDID=24226685
But this is the first time it’s gotten so much.
Last week, Fiore’s family house and elaborate drive-through display — both of which he quite literally covered with lights — on Concord Street took the $50,000 first-place prize on ABC’s reality TV show “The Great Christmas Light Fight.” In addition to standing up a full-size set of intricate building facades, the 23-year-old explained that he spaced out each strand of lights by two and half inches, the same distance between each bulb on the strand. “I just wanted to make a perfect square of lights so everything was uniform,” Fiore said on the show, impressing judge Taniya Nayak.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/VnbjE_5eWxo
“The traffic has been pretty significant,” Wilmington Deputy Police Chief Brian Pupa told Boston.com on Monday.
“Between the national notoriety and the pandemic, where people are restricted to where they can go, those things have kind of led to the situation where it’s more popular than ever,” Pupa said. FULL STORY: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/12/14/wilmington-christmas-lights-traffic-problems?s_campaign=Email:BComToday&SUBID=d7882715bb&AUDID=24226685
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