As a kid I use to love getting in the family car and driving to the Avenues (a neighborhood in the Inglewood area) to drive up and down a bunch of streets to view Christmas lights. It was a family tradition for many of us in the Los Angeles area. The residents in the Avenue's use to go all out every year. I think you couldn't move on a particular street unless you were willing to participate in the Christmas decorating tradition. Sadly as the years went by and the home owners got older each year less and less decorations were going up and soon the tradition died. (STILL SUCKS TO DRIVE OVER THERE DURING CHRISTMAS AND SO NO DECORATIONS)

Thankfully there are some neighborhoods that still carry on their decorating traditions. Like my wife's favorite places to see Christmas lights

Candy Cane Lane- Woodland Hills, CA Lubao and Oxnard

Sleepy Hollow- Torrance CA Robert Rd, off of PCH 

We have started our own tradition of going to see Christmas lights at these two spots every year. And we will be taking Hudson from now on. Its cool that there are these designated neighborhoods that carry on the tradition from year to year but to me its sad to drive throughout the city and barely see people decorating their homes anymore. I mean I get it. Times are hard and people don't want to pay extra on their bills during the holidays. All I'm saying is, I wish that we could go back to a time where the economy was flourishing and people weren't so stressed and decorated their homes again. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so! 

Hey I'm just a kid at heart that wants to see lots of Christmas decorations and lights like I did as a kid.  I mean my city does the bare minimum when it comes to decorating the city. They just throw up a tree in the Forum parking lot and thats it. What a shame! They use to decorate every light pole in the city with something Christmas themed. I guess when those decorations got old and terrible they said the hell with the Christmas decorations. It really bums me out!

I sometimes wish I lived in a small town like the ones you see in those Hallmark Christmas movies where everyone is in the Christmas spirit and the whole town is decorated so nicely. Hey a guy can dream right?