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    It was a family tradition to go out and just go holo holo around the city and just look at what peopel put up for their xmas lights. But now, since my Mom is busy with a care home operation, then we can't do that (its not the same w/out my Mom).

    Can anyone post pics of various local xmas lights? If I go on TheBus, then I can only see the lights on Farrington Hwy (or on Waipahu St. if I take either 432 or 43).
    How'd I get so white and nerdy?

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    Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

    Well, there's always Honolulu City Lights. Turns out the lighting ceremony is on Dec. 4. If you can't be there in person, it'll be broadcast live on Olelo (Oceanic 54).

    Some folks in my neighborhood in Mililani go hog wild with the lights... I'd hate to see their electric bill. We only put up a couple of strings, though I've joked for years about picking up one of those gaudy reindeer...

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    • #3
      Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

      Then again, it is possible to go overboard with the Christmas light displays.

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        Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

        Originally posted by pzarquon
        Well, there's always Honolulu City Lights. Turns out the lighting ceremony is on Dec. 4. If you can't be there in person, it'll be broadcast live on Olelo (Oceanic 54).
        Oh cool!

        Maybe the family can go there and take pics.
        How'd I get so white and nerdy?

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          Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

          Near my place, there is actually a neighborhood where a bunch of families on a street decorated all their homes with christmas lights and other holiday decorations. I'm not talking about a simple string of lights on your roofline. These guys go ALL OUT. It's pretty neat to see them all lit up at night.

          What's kind of funny is they re-labeled their street as "Santa Claus Way."

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            Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

            Oh, yeah. On the way up Kaonohi just makai of the golf course (Pearl CC) there's a driveway to about six or eight townhouses which has gone bananas for years. Wooden candy canes lining either side of the driveway; every house has lights...we call it "Candy Cane Lane."

            One driveway up there's a little hillock next to the townhouses, and somebody puts a ton of free-standing lighted figures there.
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            • #7
              Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

              Some of these displays are so elaborate, they're mind boggling. Having seen their effect on some narrow residential streets, though, I also have a great deal of empathy for hapless neighbors. The sight must be breathtaking when you're just driving by... but if it's what you see out your window 24x7, along with crowds and litter and noise... yike.

              Stories of neighborhood displays turning sour are increasingly common (this second story is out of my wife's home town, Ocala, Florida). This story out of Silicon Valley is being carried everywhere.

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              • #8
                Re: Xmas lights sight seeing anyone?

                I used to live on a small city in Ohio. Across from me was a dead-end street. Every neighbor on that street would put up coordinating Xmas light displays. For the months of Nov and Dec we'd have tons of cars crawling slowly along the street in the evenings, plus the senior citizen's van would tour it several times a night. The display put a lot of pressure on the rest of us surrounding houses to put up lights--we didn't want to be seen as grinches at Xmas! It was great to look at, but sometimes I wondered if people who lived on that street resented having to put up such an elaborate display rather than ruin the tradition.
                Last edited by AbsolutChaos; November 19, 2006, 06:21 AM.

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