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Topic: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?

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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #56 on: December 02, 2023, 01:11:08 AM »
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #57 on: December 02, 2023, 05:29:07 AM »
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #58 on: December 02, 2023, 10:01:02 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 02, 2023, 05:29:07 AM

Wow that’s actually brilliant. 

I think I’m officially stopping here. If I start lights on the house it becomes too big of a project.

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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2023, 11:04:50 AM »
There is a guy about a mile from our house that has a whole yard full of the 20-foot inflatables.
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #60 on: December 13, 2023, 08:38:54 AM »
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #61 on: December 13, 2023, 09:03:05 AM »
I actually watched some of that with the kids last night.  It came on after "Santa Claus is Coming To Town."
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #62 on: December 13, 2023, 09:33:12 AM »
We've been, my wife really likes it, I'm more amazed at all the work that goes into it.  We can see the work "for free" during the day, then they close down and only admit paying folks, and it ain't cheap.  And it's crowded.

Humans are fascinated with lights and colors.

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« Reply #63 on: December 13, 2023, 09:48:25 AM »
Yup.

Austin has a "Trail of Lights" that's set up in part of one of our biggest municipal parks, adjacent to downtown along the lake that bisects the city.  It's really pretty and fun to see, and when I was a kid it was free and you could easily park nearby and walk through it.

That's when the city was around 300,000.

Now that the entire metro area is over 2M, it's a complete clusterF.  It's expensive, you have to buy tickets months in advance, parking is minimal so you have to ride a shuttle from an old nearly-abandoned mall that's about 4 miles away.  Total experience is a beating.  

Still, we took the kids a few years back, just so they could experience the same thing we did when we were kids.  They liked it but agreed it was a beating.

Anyway, it's still pretty to look at:









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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #64 on: December 13, 2023, 09:54:31 AM »
That looks neat, like a "see once" event.  We're fortunate that we can walk to the Botanical Garden here easily.  Traffic of course gets really botched at night, so we avoid that road.  During the day it's fine.  

I remember as a kid we'd drive around some to see lights, I was envious that some other houses really did the Griswold thing and we just had a tree.  
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #65 on: December 13, 2023, 10:05:13 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 13, 2023, 09:54:31 AM
That looks neat, like a "see once" event.  We're fortunate that we can walk to the Botanical Garden here easily.  Traffic of course gets really botched at night, so we avoid that road.  During the day it's fine. 

I remember as a kid we'd drive around some to see lights, I was envious that some other houses really did the Griswold thing and we just had a tree. 
As high school kids with not much money and not much to do, we'd go down and visit it at least once per year.  It was a good place to take a girl and maybe make out a little bit, off in a darkened corner.

And as a native Austinite, it was also a good UT date night place, to take girls from other cities who hadn't grown up with it.

Now, it's just 2 million people all clogging it up and getting in your way.  Total beating.  I asked the kids last year if they wanted to go back and they said "nah."

My neighborhood and a couple of nearby ones tend to do a LOT of Christmas decorating, so we still walk or drive around looking at lights, at least a couple times every Christmas season.
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #66 on: December 13, 2023, 10:19:48 AM »
There's a cul de sac near us where every house participates.  They don't ALL go all-out, but every house does at least something.  Each one has large wooden board decorated with a verse of "Twas The Night Before Christmas" and then usually some lights and decorations that might match the theme of the verse.  They set up a fire pit in the center of the cul de sac, under a large Christmas tree made of light strings that starts at a center pole and has a string of lights that goes out to each and every house.  At the center they also man a table with free snacks and hot chocolate on weekend nights (they accept donations).  It gets busy so you have to park a couple of blocks away and walk through it all, it's a lot of fun.  I have no idea how they divvy up the power bill for the centralized lights...

Aerial view:











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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #67 on: December 13, 2023, 10:39:41 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 13, 2023, 09:48:25 AM
Yup.

Austin has a "Trail of Lights" that's set up in part of one of our biggest municipal parks, adjacent to downtown along the lake that bisects the city.  It's really pretty and fun to see, and when I was a kid it was free and you could easily park nearby and walk through it.

That's when the city was around 300,000.

Now that the entire metro area is over 2M, it's a complete clusterF.  It's expensive, you have to buy tickets months in advance, parking is minimal so you have to ride a shuttle from an old nearly-abandoned mall that's about 4 miles away.  Total experience is a beating. 

Still, we took the kids a few years back, just so they could experience the same thing we did when we were kids.  They liked it but agreed it was a beating.

Anyway, it's still pretty to look at:










Yikes....that was still a pretty small affair when I was there.  I think the city was probably like like 5-6 hundred k when I lived there.  It blew up exponentially when I left, from what I can tell.  

Austin's trail of lights will probably always remind me of this knockout gorgeous Brazilian chick I took there to wander around with me.  She barely spoke any English at the time and I spoke no Portuguese.  Talking is overrated anyway.  
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #68 on: December 13, 2023, 11:50:58 AM »
I hope all of these lights are hooked up to solar. 

Heh.
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Re: Do You Clark Griswold Your Home?
« Reply #69 on: December 13, 2023, 02:21:28 PM »
Ha!
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