Memories of Nick's Home Christmas Display
Our company began with Nick Damato's home Christmas light display, an animated Christmas light show the size of a small holiday light park that Nick put up at his home and opened to the public free of charge each year from 1996 through 2019.
Unfortunately, the majority of the display was lost in a warehouse fire in 2020.
Although we are no longer able to put up Nick's home display, videos of the display are posted below for your enjoyment.
Videos of Our Home Display
Nick's home display grew a lot from when Nick first started it in 1996 until its last year in 2019. Here are some of the videos we have taken of the display over the years.
This is a 2-minute video that walks through our entire display in 2016. At that time, the display had 200,000 light bulbs, put out 80,000 watts, used 500 amps and cost $2.50 per hour to run. Since then, we have added new scenes, updated the nativity scene to its own animated show with rope lights (which added more light bulbs) and also upgraded to LED bulbs (which significantly reduced our amperage).
Close-Up Videos of Different Scenes from Our Home Display as of 2019
Welcome
Nativity Show
Wall of Dancing Trees
Jack in the Box
Tree of Lights
Elves Loading Presents
Giant Star
Dashing Reindeer
Flowing Fountain
Color-Changing Wreath
Snowmen having a Snowball Fight
Soldier Firing a Cannon
Alligator Biting a Dinosaur
Santa's Horse and Buggy
Frogs Hopping onto a Candy Cane
A View from the House
More About Our Home Display
If you have come to visit our display in the past, we thank you for your patronage.
Although we are no longer able to put up the display, we have many fond memories of it and hope that you enjoyed it in past years.
Nick's home display has been his pride and joy for over 30 years and he has always stored it in a shed near his home. Unfortunately, in early November 2020, the shed caught on fire while no one was home. (The source of the fire turned out to be a lawnmower.) Thankfully, no one was injured and the fire was contained to the shed area. However, everything in the shed was completely destroyed along with the structure of the shed itself and almost all of the home display that Nick had spent a life time creating. (The controllers that ran the holiday light show along with the display's underground wiring and electrical system were also destroyed.)
We have decided that we will not be re-building the display this year or in the future. It took Nick over 30 years to collect and develop all of the scenes that made up the stunning display he has put up in the past, and due to the fire, almost all of those light frames were either completely destroyed or severely damaged. Unfortunately, re-building the display from scratch is just not practical at this point.
In 2019, Nick’s display included over 200,000 lights bulbs, over 20 different yard scenes, many of which were animated, and a timed light show that told the story of the nativity. The display usually took two people over a month to put up.
Although we regret the loss of our home light display, we are looking forward to focusing our time and efforts on continuing to grow our holiday lighting business and pursue new passion projects.