Residents have once again decorated their homes with thousands of lights, just to make people happy during the holiday season.
Since the early 1950s, several streets in Woodland Hills have been decorated and turned into ‘Candy Cane Lane’ from Thanksgiving to the New Year. This year is no different
Among those decorating are Peter Grossman, who recreated the Polar Express and lit it with over 600 bulbs. His plywood locomotive is 22 feet long and is equipped to belch steam; a feat that took him four days of tinkering to accomplish. Decorations in the neighborhood range from Santa Claus, to angels, to sleighs, to Winnie the Pooh. Despite all the electronics popular today, Candy Cane Lane remains an old-fashioned Christmas display.
Christmas carolers are found in the neighborhood, and marching bands from Taft High School provide holiday tunes for the weeks of the display.
Decorating homes in the area is a tradition that is handed down within families. Younger residents say they learned to decorate from their parents and grandparents—some of whom are still putting up their own displays—and will pass the fun down to their children so that the tradition can live on.
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