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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2737107" data-attributes="member: 158">Bah! Peanuts! There's a block of houses about 10 blocks from where I live, where the neighbors all put up outrageous displays at Christmas time. One particular neighbor, for years, put up a display to commemorate one of their three daughters, who died in a traffic accident on one December in the 1970's. They stopped with the really ostentacious stuff about 1995 or so, but for a good 20 years, you had every shrub on the yard decked out, Santa and the Reindeer scaling the roof, frosty tipping his hat on the other side of the roof, the driveway lined with red and green, a GIGANTIC christmas tree in the front year that was a normal fir any other time of the year, and yellow and blue strobing lights on the outer Pine trees about the periphery of the yard, along with LOUD but easy listening christmas music blaring from about 7pm to about 10 pm. My parents used to take me by every Christmas, as did most of the parents & kids in the town... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>