The Griswold Award
So, there’s this man named Mike. Back in the 1990’s Mike and his fellow male relatives entered a holiday boat parade called “Lights on the Lake” for the single reason of beating the other guy who had a bigger boat. (Hmm, sound like reasoning you’ve heard before?) They won. Then, the idea stuck. Today, Mike’s poor wife only sees him ten months out of the year because during the other two, he’s decorating his house just like he decorated his boat, plus about 70,000 lights. Step aside Clark Griswold and welcome to MAMMOTH CHRISTMAS!
Mike Stanford is a family man from right here in good ‘ol C.L.T. and since 2001, has graced us with one AWESOME display of Christmas lights. Having grown each year, Mike’s 2009 display will have over 75,000 lights, 190 amps of power, a Mega Tree, Frigid Flyer, Dizzy’s Carousel, Flying Santa, Frosty’s Biplane, and new this year, the Polaaaaar Pluuuuunge (dum dum duuum), all made by Mike himself. Very impressive, we must say. Mike has also programed his own radio station (100.1 FM) with Christmas songs and the lights blink along with the tunes. And finally, he will soon be installing a “Twitter Screen” that will display any tweets that include the word “#mammothxmas.” Incredible. Keep it clean girls.
We have a feeling that Mike’s self-described “overwhelming pent-up need to make stuff” is going to give us holiday joy for years to come. Now, if we could just get him to wear Cousin Eddie’s black dickie, the package would be complete.
Through December 31; Sunday – Thursday (5:00-10:00 pm), Friday & Saturday (5:00-11:00 pm); 501 Mammoth Oaks Drive
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