The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights
Over the last 25 years, various generations of ‘The Christmas Truck’ have brightened the holiday season, figuratively and blindingly literally, for residents of Central Iowa.
Here’s the story of the virgin birth of this brilliant piece of low-tech yuletide celebration. Like Isaac Newton and gravity, The Christmas Truck was the results of one man’s sudden inspiration.
Kris Marshall was hauling a generator and a few strands of Christmas lights to his church in a $50 used truck.
He simply combined the two and The Christmas Truck was born
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Got to love the Christmas truck … but perhaps, only as a Christmas parade novelty! I can imagine it being quite a road hazard in the darker hours, in terms of distraction as well as trying to maintain night vision. Eeep!
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