This is a picture of the house in 2007.
There's only
left until Christmas!!
Season
's Greetings
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Come celebrate the holidays where magic is always in season... Illuminate your spirits and treasurer the enchantment with good friends and family. Tonight's forecast: Snow! This will be Winter Snowlands 20th year! We have already begun planning out new ideas for our 2008 Christmas display. Come celebrate our 20th year of doing elaborate Holiday Displays. Stay tuned to the web site for more information. |
Thanks for stopping by my Holiday web site.
Be sure to sign my guest book before you leave. You can view the guest book from this link. Click the Christmas ornament to sign the book.
The 2007 Winter Snowland display was on from about 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. weather permitting. If there is rain in the forecast for that day the display will be off.
I began working on our "2007" Holiday Display as of November 1st. The display will begin normal operating hours on December 1st. 6pm to 9pm. Click here to see a MPG movie of the 2007 display. Winter Snowland 2007.
Click on the dates below to follow the progress of our 2007 Winter Snowland display.
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I would like to announce that Winter Snowland was one of eight homes across America in 2003, to be featured on HGTV'S Extreme Christmas: Bigger and Brighter Special. The "official air dates" were December 21, 22, 25, 2003. You may log on to this web site for your specific time zones. HGTV If you missed the show, scroll down the page and click on the HGTV image. You will be able to watch the story on my home and my neighbors as well.
Creating an elaborate Christmas display has been a tradition of mine for years. I built my first Christmas display in 1988.
Each year the holiday display has grown in size and in power. Today the Christmas display covers just about every inch of my front yard and most of the roof.It takes a lot of work to plan out the locations where everything will be placed. I really have to plan the electrical wiring carefully because the Christmas display takes a lot of power. It uses about 70 amps. In fact, I burned up the main breaker in 2001. As you can imagine, the power used by this holiday display gives me a shock in January when the power bill arrives from the City of Burbank.
The kids enjoy watching all of the animation and looking at thousands of Christmas lights. The holiday display has won lots of awards over the years and has been featured behind the weather on the major TV networks. In 2001, this holiday display was shown live on National TV (NBC Today Show - Weekend Edition) when I was interviewed by David Bloom. In 2000, it was one of the major topics of discussion on
CBS's Early Show with Brian Gumble. It was also shown on TV from coast to coast that year.
Click on the Newspaper for Daily News coverage of this Christmas display and our neighbor's
. Or click on the U-press Telegram logo.
If you missed the display "live" on NBC's Today Show Weekend edition December 22, 2001, then click on the picture of Soledad O'Brien and David Bloom below and get a sample of the broadcast....
If you missed the KCAL-9, CBS-2 news on December 25 or the CBS Early Show coverage on December 26th 2002, then here are MPG movies of their television broadcasts. The files are around 5 MB in size.
Click on the HGTV image to see the coverage of Winter Snowland and our neighbors home as well.
Below are videos of Winter Snowland on different new channels. Most of them broadcasted live from in front of the display! The Today Show broadcast and HGTV broadcast were shown from coast to coast that year!! Push your stop button on your browser at the top to turn off the back ground music to here the videos.
I was very honored to have Winter Snowland featured this year in David Seidman's new book entitled Holiday Lights. The book outlines all of the thousands of lights and animation that the holiday display features. Below is a flyer advertising the book. The other two images are the article about Winter Snowland and our neighbors display as well.
Winter Snowland is usually up from the first weekend in December, until the 26th of December.
Winter Snowland is
located at 529 N. Florence Street in Burbank, California. We are conveniently located between the 134 and I-5 freeways in the heart of Magnolia Park. Here is a MAP so you can find my Holiday display when it is up and running. The normal Christmas display hours are from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. However, Winter Snowland will be OFF if raining or rain is in the forecast for the evening.
With two major Christmas displays on our block, parking
is always a challenge particularly on the weekends. As Christmas Eve approaches, the sidewalks in our block are typically packed between and in front of the two Holiday displays. In fact, visitors have said to me that the crowds remind them of Universal City Walk! So arrive early and get that good parking spot, and get out and enjoy the sights and sounds of Christmas "live!" For those of you who do not get to see my Winter Snowland live and have questions, check out our FAQ page under the History button at the top, or just click FAQ to be taken there.You can check out the weather via the link to the Weather site. Just enter our zip code (91505). Remember - if rain is forecast, the Holiday display will not be on. So, please check it out before you come over
to make sure the display will be operating.
K
eith LaPrathHappy Holidays From our Family to yours!
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