Albertville Light Display Blows Fans Away

Through lights and nostalgic "blow mold" decorations, Albertville's Wirtz family has built a display even Clark Griswold would love.

It started, Dan Wirtz said, one year when he found a Nativity scene and two candles to light up his small Twin Cities yard.  Today, the Writz household has a huge Nativity scene, and more than 150 other blow mold style decorations lighting up his Albertville home, making it a local favorite around the holidays.  "I think it's so cool," Dan said of the parade of cars passing the home the 5600 block of Large Avenue. "One day, we looked out and here was this huge bus. Everyone was looking. You could see little flash bulbs going off inside it. That's neat for me."  It's the payoff for hours of hard work and preparation. The blow molds (plastic molded into figures such as Santa Claus, toy soldiers or even Snoopy) hang by a hook in the rafters …

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