ANTIOCH, Calif. (KRON) — For greater than two and a half a long time, through the vacation season in Antioch, Camby Street has been affectionately generally known as “Candy Cane Lane.” However now, the household who began the primary show is shifting out of state, making this the ultimate 12 months.
Since 1998, through the winter holidays, households driving up Camby Street have been handled to a blinding show of Christmas lights constructed across the centerpiece sweet cane. Resident Frank Rehm envisioned the show the day he moved his spouse and three sons into this home.
“I saw the fireplace on the side of our house right here, and I thought, ‘boy, that’d be nice to have a big candy cane on that. We’ll try to build it.’ So, we did,” stated Rehm.
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The vacation decor inside the house simply as spectacular as what’s exterior.
“The tree represents each of the grandchildren,” Rehm stated, referring to 1 ornament.
“Every year, it just kept growing and growing and growing,” he added.
Rehm stated the neighbors instantly throughout the road started adorning their house like his household did at about the identical time years in the past. However now, Rehm and his spouse Mary have determined to maneuver to Texas in June, making this the ultimate 12 months of Sweet Cane Lane.
He stated each of them are getting older and the two-story home is just too huge. Crime, he provides, is making the realm much less secure.
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“Our neighborhood is perfectly nice — perfectly safe. But I wouldn’t go walk three blocks away at night,” he stated.
Counting all the way down to Christmas, the Rehms proceed accumulating canned meals and boxed items individuals drop off that can finally be donated to native charities, and to soak within the vacation spirit they’ve helped domesticate over time — particularly when Santa Claus pays a go to.
“Just do a little something and it’ll bring a lot of joy to a lot of people,” Rehm stated.
For now, the lights are on each day from 6 p.m. by means of 9 p.m., till they flip off for the ultimate time on Monday, Dec. 23.
