Photo Gallery: Norton Family Winter Wonderland in Burbank to open tonight
Pamela and Richard Norton work across their front yard pounding nails into snow-like fabric in the front of their yard of Christmas decorations in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard Norton, the creator of most of the decorations in his yard, moves cartoon penguin out of a pathway in the front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Pamela Norton place a Raggedy Ann doll on a large toy train in her front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The doll is on of sixteen stuffed toys hidden throughout the yard for children and adults to hunt for from the sidewalk. They move the toys around daily. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Smoke, created from an embedded fog machine inside the engine of a large toy train, flows with smoke in the front yard of the Richard Norton and family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard Norton and his wife Pamela spread snow-like fabric across their front yard in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
An organized tangle of electric wire and computer wire being used for the front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. According to the Nortons, they have 100-amp service to the house, and their front yard display requires 90. This means when the Christmas lights are on, no heating appliances, like toasters and hair dryers, can be used. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard Norton holds a proclamation from the California Assembly in front of a wall of awards he has won from the Burbank Civic Pride Committee Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. He said he stopped submitting his house decorations to the contest because he ran out of wall space. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Mike McDaniel, of Burbank, waits for his writing partner Wes Clark, of Virginia, who is interviewing Richard and Pamela Norton about their front yard Christmas display in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The two are writing a book called “Burbank Stories” and are likely going to use the Norton’s in their next book. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Pamela and Richard Norton in the front yard of their front yard of Christmas display in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard Norton pounds nails into snow-like fabric spread across his front yard of Christmas decorations in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Stuffed animals, which are taken in every night so they last, crowd together on a large toy train in the front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard Norton uses a leaf blower to clear the area for snow-like fabric in his front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
A carousel powered by an antique motor that Richard Norton found in the basement of his grandfather in the front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
An ornament display noting the name of the front-yard display of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Richard and Pamela Norton work on putting “snow” across their front yard in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
The front yard of the Norton family in Burbank on Monday, December 4, 2017. The Norton’s have had a display in their front yard for 48 years, forty-four of them with Christmas decorations. The final touches are being done today, and will open tonight. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)