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[LJinPA]

How do the cities in the Southeast decorate for Christmas, I'm especially curious to see some of the newer cities like Charlotte, Raleigh... I rode through Charlotte on New Years a in 1997 but it was too late at night to see any lights though I did see flowers, I think pansies in bloom. When I got to Atlanta it was the 2 of Jan and I don't remember any lights offhand except for 1 skyscraper. I know NC has that one Christmas town also.

Winston-Salem would have me curious since Bethlehem, PA, Winston's moravian sister city seems to decorate heavily.

Charleston and Savannah may be interesting, would they put X-mas lights on Palmettos?

Does the warmer climate make for different traditions?
Do the Southern evangelical churches have Midnight services like the Catholics do?
What is Christmas dinner like?

Pics would be cool esp of the downtowns on Christmas...

Thanks

[sunshine]

[Lexy]

A couple of Christmas at Opryland here in Nashville.









Creativity.


I will be heading downtown next week for the pics of Christmas in Downtown.  Check back then fellas!

[monsoon]

Christmas Town USA is in the Charlotte Metro.  One of the nation's better known display of Christmas Lights.  

http://www.mcadenvil...istmastown.com/

[LJinPA]

I found this pic of Norfolk, VA:

[Plasticman]

I can remember driving through Nashville at night during Christmas and seeing some buildings with the windows lit up in such a pattern to form words like "Peace on Earth".  Any pics of that?

[Mith242]

Here's some I took around the Square in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

[EastSideResider]

I don't have any pics, but McAdenville [NC] is one of the best....

[Lexy]

Plasticman, on Dec 3 2005, 09:41 AM, said:

I can remember driving through Nashville at night during Christmas and seeing some buildings with the windows lit up in such a pattern to form words like "Peace on Earth".  Any pics of that?

You are probably talking about the Tennessee Tower.  The state stopped that about four or five years ago.

Is this the building in question??  Sorry about the size of the pic.

[Plasticman]

Lexy, on Dec 3 2005, 12:07 PM, said:

You are probably talking about the Tennessee Tower.  The state stopped that about four or five years ago.

Is this the building in question??  Sorry about the size of the pic.

That looks like the building.  I wonder why they stopped it.  Not PC enough?  I am so weary of all this politcally correct nonsense.  Even the stores have watered down Christmas with "Happy Holidays" under the guise of being all inclusive.  Well that may be but I went to Lowe's and they admitted changing the name of their trees to "Holiday Trees" instead of Christmas trees.  What nonsense.  I'm not offended by someone saying Happy Hannukah or Happy Kwanzaa but I think the PC crowd is just knee jerk.  All I know is several buildings in addition the Tennessee Tower were lit up like that and when driving through on those cold nights to visit my wife's family in KY, it was very nice to see.  I hope it was the power bill that spurred the change?

[satalac]

Plasticman, on Dec 5 2005, 03:28 PM, said:

That looks like the building.  I wonder why they stopped it.  Not PC enough?  I am so weary of all this politcally correct nonsense.  Even the stores have watered down Christmas with "Happy Holidays" under the guise of being all inclusive.  Well that may be but I went to Lowe's and they admitted changing the name of their trees to "Holiday Trees" instead of Christmas trees.  What nonsense.  I'm not offended by someone saying Happy Hannukah or Happy Kwanzaa but I think the PC crowd is just knee jerk.  All I know is several buildings in addition the Tennessee Tower were lit up like that and when driving through on those cold nights to visit my wife's family in KY, it was very nice to see.  I hope it was the power bill that spurred the change?

it wasn't about being pc. they stopped all the writing that they used to put on it. they used to put all kinds of messages on it. i wish they would go back to doing that again. here is how i celebrate the holidays in the south.  

Edited by satalac, 05 December 2005 - 03:51 PM.

[Lexy]

Actually what made them stop is paying the janitor at night to go around and turn lights off on all the floors to spell out the messages.  The state thought they would save money by eliminating that.  But still, every light stays on at all hours of the night in the buildings occupied by state offices??  Go figure huh?

[RestedTraveler]

It's that time of the year again!    If you've got 'em, post 'em!  

Here is one from the Shops at Greenridge in Greenville, South Carolina:

Edited by RestedTraveler, 20 November 2006 - 08:24 AM.

[Pillsbury]

LJinPA, on Dec 1 2005, 12:16 PM, said:

Does the warmer climate make for different traditions?
Do the Southern evangelical churches have Midnight services like the Catholics do?
What is Christmas dinner like?

Pics would be cool esp of the downtowns on Christmas...

Thanks

Hmm. I'm going to try and go out to take some pictures in the next couple of weeks, but they don't kick our lights on until November 21 (that's tomorrow!!!!!).    

Not sure if the climate makes for different traditions.  I go to Midnight Mass, come home and we have a small party.  I still wait up for Santa Claus every Christmas Eve.  I almost caught him last year.   This is my year!!!

Most evangelical churches have Christmas Eve services, but only the Episcopal and Catholic parishes (and some Lutherans) in my town have the Midnight Christ-Masses---that I know of anyway, but I wouldn't put it past the Methodists; they're all over the place.   Interesting, one Episcopal parish in my town has 7 masses on Christmas Eve.  Man, that's a lot of people!!   And the Catholic one that my girlfriend goes to has like 6 masses---and they run two of them at a time--one in the church and the other in their gym---and they have traffic reports telling people to avoid certain churches.   But it is the Bible Belt so you know!!!

Edited by Pillsbury, 20 November 2006 - 09:17 AM.

[Skyliner]

RestedTraveler, on Nov 20 2006, 09:08 AM, said:

It's that time of the year again!    If you've got 'em, post 'em!  

Here is one from the Shops at Greenridge in Greenville, South Carolina:

I'd love to see that one in color, if you've got it, RT.  Great shot!

If anyone is interested in events/places to check out in Greenville during the holidays, click here.

Edited by Skyliner, 20 November 2006 - 12:32 PM.

[Pillsbury]

^ Might be a good road trip......

[TBurban]

Great!  Thanks for bringing this back up!

The Grand Illumination of Short Pump Town Center, one of Richmond's new outdoor malls.

A Short Pump Christmas!































Tada!

[NcSc74]

Who says it is warm in NC during winter. It gets pretty cold in the sandhills region but not much frozen stuff to show for it. We usually get ice/sleet on a regular but we don't get measureable snowfall totals every year. Anyway I love Christmas time in NC. These pics are of my moms house in december 2004. I just came home to visit from Okinawa where it was 75 degrees and walked right in to a sleet/snow shower.

[kayman]

TBurban, on Nov 20 2006, 05:20 PM, said:

Great!  Thanks for bringing this back up!

The Grand Illumination of Short Pump Town Center, one of Richmond's new outdoor malls.

A Short Pump Christmas!































Tada!

Those pics are amazing TBurban!

[suburban george3]

NcSc74, on Nov 21 2006, 04:18 AM, said:

Who says it is warm in NC during winter. It gets pretty cold in the sandhills region but not much frozen stuff to show for it. We usually get ice/sleet on a regular but we don't get measureable snowfall totals every year. Anyway I love Christmas time in NC. These pics are of my moms house in december 2004. I just came home to visit from Okinawa where it was 75 degrees and walked right in to a sleet/snow shower.

I remember that December, while the sandhills got snow we got 8+ inches of snow in Winston-Salem/Greensboro.  It was early December too, which it is rare to get that much snow then.  We usually get ours in Jan/Feb.