A DISNEYLAND CHRISTMAS CLOSE TO TEMECULA Update - SANTA TONIGHT!
Temecula, CA – As we drift through this in-between time
heading to New Year’s Eve and the end of this year’s holiday season, some
friends and I went over to the yearly, newly expanded ‘Bainbridge Falls’ synchronized
multi-house music/light display located in a unincorporated housing tract
between Temecula, Murrieta, and French Valley between Willows and Nicolas Road.
The original circle court neighborhood programmed display
has now expanded to include the first block/both street sides, through the
intersection opposite the circle court entrance. Able to be seen by hundreds of
people who reside above the wired neighborhood, I was not prepared for the
Christmas trek destination this year as it brought a lump to my throat.
Tuning the car radio to 88.5 FM as soon as we turned onto
Willows and N. General Kearney, the soundtrack to Bainbridge Falls’
Disneyland-style Christmas display came on the dial. Spouting both traditional
and contemporary holiday tunage we sat in a line of traffic edging ever slowly
to where the lights danced in rhythm to the tempo of the music.
The brainchild of a Christian engineer who shares a Bible
study with a mole’s mom, there was a time when the Calendar first reported this local story that you could park your
ride in the neighborhood, staying toasty inside your car/truck, as you watched
the total soundtrack play down the corridor of homes. A sometimes steady line
of looky-Lous would periodically pass as a walking family of bystanders might walk
by.
Now, this night in the greatest light display this side of
Coachella, we inched along as throngs of pedestrians moved in a style similar
to Disneyland creating a ‘magic moment’ of the kind I often describe to my associates
who reside outside the valley. For a picture of Bainbridge Falls, an obvious reference to It’s
a Wonderful Life, check out the latest issue of Valley News, available
around the valley at various merchant drop-off points.
If you are new to the area or new to this spectacular Christmas
spectacle, don’t tarry [be a lag wagon] for the lights go out Dec. 31st,
2012.