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Title: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: NJ on December 07, 2015, 10:54:24 AM
Have you seen any Christmas & Holiday decorations as part of beautification along any public roads (bridges/highways/roundabouts, etc.)

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Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: roadman65 on December 07, 2015, 02:14:59 PM
Not if its public as many made a stink about it over time.  Private yes!  Heck, they made a big splash about St. Cloud, Florida having a cross atop its water tower where a passer by complained to the State about it, which got a court order to remove it later on because of this one person.
Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: pumpkineater2 on December 07, 2015, 05:42:17 PM
This one's pretty popular in Arizona:
http://www.12news.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/11/25/mystery-tree-decorated--17/76398866/ (http://www.12news.com/story/news/local/valley/2015/11/25/mystery-tree-decorated--17/76398866/)
Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: english si on December 07, 2015, 07:36:52 PM
Oxford Street - more to do with shoppers than the road (especially as cars are banned most of the time, and it's just buses and taxis), of couse
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(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/48/f9/26/48f9264f7452ba48362cec097586e70b.jpg)
and Regent's Street - ditto(though you can drive it)
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Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: ET21 on December 07, 2015, 08:29:14 PM
Michigan Ave in Chicago has a lights festival with Disney Characters each year, sort of marks the "beginning" of the season.

(https://fairfieldsuiteschicago.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/michigan-avenue.jpg)

Although not done with any roads, the Chicago skyline seen along Lake Shore Drive (US-41) always looks awesome in its holiday lights
Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: hm insulators on December 15, 2015, 05:23:16 PM
The freeways in Los Angeles have lots of holiday decorations, otherwise known as people dropping Christmas trees into the lanes. :-D I call it "a holiday sale at Macy's."
Title: Re: Christmas/Holiday decorations
Post by: wanderer2575 on December 16, 2015, 09:20:42 PM
On 12/25/1978, Charles Kuralt aired an "On the Road" segment on the CBS Evening News about a lone juniper tree on the shoulder of US-50 in Colorado, somewhere between Grand Junction and Delta, that every year during the days before Christmas gradually collected ornaments placed by passersby until by Christmas Day it was a fully-decorated Christmas tree.  I wonder if the tree is still there and, if so, if the tradition has continued.

"Just looking at it makes you think about how unexpected life on earth can be.  The tree is so lonely and so brave that it seems to offer courage to those who pass it -- and a message.  It is the Christmas message:  That there is life and hope even in a rough world."