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>>I have very wondrful memories of Canarsie Christmas >the wild lights. As a child we always went (in our >Hudson Hornet!) to the Brooklyn Terminal Market to get >our Christmas tree. My father would take the long way >around and spend over an hour just crusing Carnarsie >to look at the lights. It was AMAZING! lights >everywhere!!!So many >lights (this was the era of C6, C7 and the outdoor >C9's) >But the lights were placed with such precision and >care and with a REAL artist's eye. On many, many >streets EVERY >house was decorated to the absolute MAX! So many >houses and lights that on many blocks it created a, >well, Christ- >mas tunnel to drive through. The effect was GREAT!!!! > >There was also a "competitive" atmosphere which wasn't >so "Christmas" in sprit. There was a kind of,"Oh you >did >that, well watch what I do next year"..type >attitude..all >of which wonderfully intensified the atmosphere. > >My father would roll into the blocks long christmas >tunnels >of canarsie, gun the glass packs on the 7X Hornet >engine and say; "my god they have lights on the >garbage cans" > >Then we would go home with the tree to watch the >Rhinegold >Theater's story of silent night on TV > >Shift scene to 1980's Denver Colorado; I'm out in >Denver to attend a convention. I go to a "revitalized" >old industrial area of the city where they were trying >to >create loft spaces in an old warehouse. They had tour- >ist oriented stores on the first floor mini mall. Much >like the fulton st pier mall in manhattan. Same >formula. >In the mini mall was the standard open all year long >Christmas store with a wide range of Christmas >decorations. >But the store was named "A country Christmas".... >The picture in the window is the classic scene of city >kids being brought to the country for a Christmas with >grandparents who meet the train with a house drawn >sleigh >with jungle bells.... > >Standing there in July in Denver in 1983 I automaticly >said aloud the great statement... > >"I dont want a country Christmas, I WANT A CANARSIE >CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!" > >People looked at me like I was a alien from another >planet. After the reaction I got I thought to myself >sure, I'm an alien...from a better place, and a MUCH >better time. > >I would like to speak to anyone who feels about the >late 1940's to early 1960's Brooklyn especially >Canarsie >Christmas memories. > >Jeffrey Smith 212 532 2753, 646 510 6634

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