(23 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santa Clarita, California – 17 December 2024
1. People looking at lights
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bryan Cobb, homeowner:
“It is over the top. The neighborhood started it many years ago after the Northridge earthquake to give back to the community to bring some joy."
3. People looking at lights
4. Overhead lights
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bryan Cobb, homeowner:
“The neighbors banded together to do the community lights overhead. Lights.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bryan Cobb, homeowner:
“And it takes us about four weekends. Saturdays, Sundays. There’s about four to six of us, and it’s about eight hour days.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mesa, Arizona – 12 December 2024
7. Decorated front yard
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Castillo Price, homeowner:
“What this actually brings is essentially a festival of lights. Everybody has been able to take their interpretation of the holidays and put it into a full circle. So there’s not somebody that’s going to walk down the street and not feel included.”
9. Lights in front yard
10. SpongeBob house
11. Cactus with lights
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Javier Arias, Mesa Arizona resident:
“It’s really family friendly. We’ve driven through here. We’ve walked through here many times. We love coming back and seeing what the neighbors have added to their house from a decoration standpoint."
13. Lights in yard
14. Various cartoons as holiday lights
15. Various star wars characters
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Javier Arias, Mesa Arizona resident:
“It’s and it’s just it’s just a really good community vibe here, too. And it’s something, again, that’s amazing to do around the holidays.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 13 December 2024
17. Home with lights
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
“We’ve been doing this for five years. We started at the height of Covid.”
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
“People were looking for someplace to go and to get out and still have a sense of community when we were not supposed to be gathering.”
20. Ornament tree
21. Ornament
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
“And it has just skyrocketed from there.”
23. Lights by sidewalk
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24. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
“And now it has moved into the neighborhood.”
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
“It’s been a labor of love, for sure. And and it is crazy when you have 2 or 300 people standing in front of your house.”
26. Two homes with lights
27. House with lights
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SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Walters and Lenny Standish
28. “But it is. It is. It’s amazing. Totally amazing.”
STORYLINE:
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow might be enough to brighten some homes this holiday season. But others are adorned with thousands of blinking lights synched to blasting music, drawing crowds and bolstering both holiday and community spirit.
In a cul-de-sac in Mesa, Arizona, 14 homeowners have been going all-out on holiday lights for the last 30 years in a tradition that hasn’t been diminished by real estate turnover.
Those buying homes in the neighborhood often find the attics full of décor left behind as a gift from the previous owners, said Stephanie Castillo-Price. And despite cultural and religious differences, residents come together to create a festival of lights, she said.
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