December 1
...serving up your daily dish.
We don't think they're going for subtle here. That would be the Glen Ridge White Candle in Upstairs Window Contest, to be announced shortly. But if you live in Bloomfield and you give to PSE&G this time of year, here's a decorating contest for you.
December 1, 2005 | Permalink
I love Bloomfields municipal area when they decorate for the holidays. The big outdoor bulbs surrounding the building, and the roof so you can se it from the parkway.
Speaking of seeing from the parkway - does anyone know the person or family that use to do the house where every inch was covered in lights? Why did they stop?
Posted by: hrhppg | Dec 1, 2005 10:52:15 AM
I love Bloomfields municipal area when they decorate for the holidays. The big outdoor bulbs surrounding the building, and the roof so you can se it from the parkway.
Speaking of seeing from the parkway - does anyone know the person or family that use to do the house where every inch was covered in lights? Why did they stop?
Posted by: hrhppg | Dec 1, 2005 10:52:59 AM
hrhppg,
Regarding the light-covered house, perhaps, all the rain in October has slowed their decorating progress??
Posted by: DavidG | Dec 1, 2005 11:02:15 AM
hrh, I believe the people in that house moved last year. It's too bad. That house was great. It would cause nightly traffic jams on the parkway. The state troopers were always rousting the people that would pull over on the shoulder to look. Only in NJ.
What I want to know is why they think folks in town need encouragement to put up more lights. Like we don't have enough? We're trying to give Lyndhurst a run for their money? Whatever. I guess it's all for fun and the kids love it.
Posted by: State Street Pete | Dec 1, 2005 11:14:04 AM
Maybe, but I don't remember it last year either. Does anyone remember the house from last year - on the road that runs along the Parkway - East Passaic I think.
Posted by: hrhppg | Dec 1, 2005 11:14:14 AM
Thanks Pete, our comments overlapped.
What does Lyndhurst do for decor? I must be missing something.
Posted by: hrhppg | Dec 1, 2005 11:15:57 AM
Lyndhurst just has a lot of houses with lots of lights. We take the kids for a drive every year to see the displays and Lyndhurst always seems to have the most houses covered.
We start our trip in Bloomfield and try to work our way through Nutley, Belleville, Lyndhurst and North Arlington.
The one spot on Mt. Prospect in Belleville we try to get to every year. It has a manger with live animals, usually sheep, last year a camel. And the guy is an electrician so he also built a Santa's workshop with mechanical elves. There's a button that kids can press to make it all go.
Posted by: State Street Pete | Dec 1, 2005 11:55:14 AM
Check out that web site someone provided in the thread yesterday called Wizards of Winter. This is amazing.
http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM
Speakers up!
Posted by: Conan the Grammarian | Dec 1, 2005 12:48:30 PM
The house with all the lights on it is on Passaic - not sure if its east or west and it looked like there were people putting lights on it when I passed by on my way home from work yesterdayI
I dont know if they moved for sure but i know the father was older and the son was kind of taking the torch so to speak
Posted by: megan | Dec 1, 2005 1:31:13 PM
That house in Belleville has been around forever. Just look for the star on the roof when driving on Union Ave. I've been going to it every year since I was a little girl--and I'm 35!
Posted by: Theresa | Dec 1, 2005 2:03:47 PM
Conan: That's the "seasonal" band: Trans-Siberian Orchestra!! They're playing MSG.
http://www.trans-siberian.com/intro.html
Posted by: Surrounded | Dec 1, 2005 3:14:23 PM
Good to know megan. I hope the do it again. We had noticed a real estate sign there last year and assumed they had just sold the house, as we saw a moving van near there not long after. Hopefully I'm wrong about them being gone, or someone else is picking up the torch.
Posted by: State Street Pete | Dec 1, 2005 5:10:57 PM
the house on East Passaic was surely a sight-I believe, if I recall correctly, the cost was becoming a hardship. I believe it was covered in the local newspapers.
Posted by: cstarling | Dec 1, 2005 5:16:32 PM
Surrounded - thanks for the info! I thought it might be Cusco or Mannheim Steamroller. I think I need to get a couple of their cds and a handy-dandy, industrial strength lighting sequencer. (And a second mortgage to pay off PSE&Greed.) But, I could be a contender!!
Posted by: Conan the Grammarian | Dec 1, 2005 5:29:34 PM
This is great. Its about time someone did it, Bloomfield has excellent holiday decorations. What the contest organizers should do (and it may be too late this year) is to print up a map of entrants, so people can take a tour of the decorations. You could even sell it for a buck at local shops and offer a cash prize or donate it to a worthy cause. Or, you could just print the addresses in the paper or online. Thats the cheap-easy way to go. I know I would throw the kids in the car with a thermos of hot chocolate and take in the sights. Who needs Rockefeller Center?
Posted by: cheaplazymom | Dec 1, 2005 7:13:42 PM
