Fay Avenue Home Delights With 25,000 Lights

Jim and Barbara Gerrasch's house display includes more than 25,000 lights.

Christmas comes this time each year. You don’t need a calendar, candy canes or mistletoe to know that Santa’s on his way. You only need to take a peek down Fay Avenue. “My father loves Christmas,” Jim Gerrasch’s daughter, Cathy Vocaire, said. And he’s more than willing to share that love. His and his wife Barbara’s house, at 194 Fay Avenue in Avon Lake, has resulted in friends and neighbors nicknaming Gerrasch “Mr. Griswold,” after Chevy Chase’s character, Clark Griswold, who tried to cover every inch of his house in holiday lights in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The result? A wonderland of lights, Christmas trees and a manger scene that last weekend had Gerrasch dressing up as Santa and passing out Slinkys and candy canes to …

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