[Leica] Santa and Sleigh Made of Colored Lights

[Jim Nichols]

Beautiful work and photographs, Chris.  Thanks for the story and the images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 11/27/2016 7:00 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> Originally built in the late 1930s to adorn the side of a downtown
> department store, this 150 foot long Santa and Sleigh was lost after the
> store closed around 1970 and was rediscovered rotting away in a warehouse a
> decade later. My grandfather, John Westerfield, was one of the local
> electricians who donated his time to restore it with modern electrical
> components in the early 80s. Since then, it has been displayed on the side
> of one of Fort Wayne¹s tall buildings every year.
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> I made two photos of it last night, just 8 minutes apart, but greatly
> different in light, as the day was fading away fast.
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