“Or even better, that someone buys all of this stuff and puts something together in their own house to continue the tradition.△The tire producer / manufacturer of the tires you are buying, and Canadian Tire is responsible for the recycling fee that is included in your invoice. “It’s my hope that I can sell a lot of this,” Bob said. 31, the end will come to the house that has shined on so many. The house will be decorated and will have a Santa for kids to visit each night in December. Now I know my Debra can see it from heaven.” “But now I’m able to cope with it a little better. “The first few years were tough and I’d often start crying,” Bob Taylor said last year. These days, however, he is more at peace. The first few years of having the house all lit up would bring out all the emotions with Bob, so often reminding him of his precious Debra. “We don’t run out of power now because of it.” “LED lights were God’s way of saving us,” Bob said.
Linda Taylor told the Times-Herald three years ago that one time she flicked on a switch to start a George Foreman grill in December and the whole house went dark.īob said that he has no idea how many lights there are in the house, but said that the introduction of LED lights made the project much more affordable. That makes it all worth it.”īob said that the power in the house used to go up to 200 amps - 184 amps just on the lights alone. “When their eyes light up and they get excited and start hollering and screaming. “When the fire department shows up with Santa and the kids already in line see them, that’s the best part,” Bob Taylor said. In fact, Bob said that’s his favorite part each year. The house has seen so many visitors that at least once every night in December a person tells the couple that they first visited the venue as kids and are now showing their own children. The Ferris wheel and merry-go-round - staples of the yard during the past two decades that originally came from the Vallejo Fire Department - are back again. The statues of Disney characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse were inside the Taylors’ home and had yet to be put outside. On Saturday the Taylors again had the help of volunteers, including Local 180 IBEW. I’ve had knee replacement surgery and it’s just too much pain. Going up and down ladders each day is something I just can’t do anymore. “And although we get a lot of help, 90 percent of the job is done by myself and my wife. “I’m 81 now and my wife turns 80 soon,” Bob Taylor said. We had the manger scene and it wasn’t as much the first 2-3 years but it just grew brighter and brighter every year.” “During the Christmas time of year she (Debra) absolutely loved to decorate for her son and my grandkid,” Bob Taylor said in 2019. You just see it from the freeway and follow the lights. You don’t ask for directions for the decorated house. The front yard, meanwhile, has become an institution. There is a fountain and Bob constantly changes the flowers in it. Soon after the crash, Bob created a memorial tribute to Debra in a garden - now located in the backyard of the Taylors’ house, which most people don’t get to see.
The American Airlines flight she was on was routed from San Francisco to Little Rock, Ark., where it hit a big storm and missed the runway. The first time the house on 817 Old Glen Cove Road became a must-see Christmas venue was just six months after Bob was dealt a huge tragedy - his daughter, Debra Taylor-Sattari, died in a plane crash in June of 1999. Now the couple is turning on the light switch one last time.
For 23 years Bob and Linda Taylor have lit up the lives of hundreds of thousands during the holiday season at their iconic home in Vallejo.
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