Welcome to Norton's Winter Wonderland
This will be our third Christmas in our new home in Valencia Hills (Santa Clarita)! While we love our new home and Santa Clarita, we still miss our former family home in Burbank and all of our great neighbors ! We lived and raised our three kids in that home for over 50 years! One of our most fond memories will always be the Norton's Winter Wonderland annual Christmas display! This website provides a look at the history of our former nationally recognized display together with a lot of images and videos we think you will enjoy!
So, what is on tap for us at our new home for the 2024 holiday season? Certainly, decorating is in our genes! We took most of our new 2021 electronic attractions with us to Valencia, and we lit up our part of the street in 2022, 2023 and again this season with some cool digital animation!! We expanded the display for 2024 with new neon LED and blow mold characters, some new nativity figures, some wood cutouts of favorite Disney and other characters, and other accents! It is the brighest one yet!!
Our thanks go out to our dearest friends, Keith and Mat, for their tremendous help in the setup of our display. Our eldest son, David (who also helped with the setup), and his wife, Lisa, made some beautiful new cutouts of well-known Disney and other characters that are part of our display this year.
Also - big news for 2024!! The *live* webcam is back!! Check it out on the next page. You can stand between the tall candy canes, call your family or friends anywhere in the world, give them this website address (www.nortonswinterwonderland.com), and they can see you live in front of the display!! The webcam is operational 24/7 through New Year's Day.
OK - let's talk about our last large Burbank display and where some of its main annimated attractions can still be seen!
After running our hybrid digital-analog Winter Wonderland display for almost 50 years, 2021 was the time to switch over to a less physically demanding display given that all our immediate family was living north of Burbank. At the end of the 2020 season, we gave most all our prior large mechanical animated attractions to our three children and their families for their respective displays.
David and his family - who live on Granada Drive in Palmdale - have our double-hammer ride as well as some other items to complement his huge lights-to-music display that MUST be seen!! It is truly remarkable. Our son, Chris, and his family have our Merry-go-round, Ferris Wheel, and Teeter Totter on display with his cool display at their home on Laidlaw Lane in Palmdale (about a mile from David's home). If you take a trip to Palmdale during the holidays, you can catch both displays and enjoy seeing the attractions that made our Winter Wonderland display so popular.
Our daughter, Debbie, and her family have the North Pole Express train, track and signal at their home on Cielo Court in Santa Clarita. It is a short distance (less than a mile) from our home. It is a featured attraction of their beautiful home and decorations! They have really done a great job - and so have their neighbors. It is a must-see well decorated block in Valencia Hills!
Click on the ENTER SITE button below to access the main page with the hyperlinks to other pages on this site to enjoy the webcam, pictures, videos and information about the history of the display.
The Norton Family!
Updated: 11/16/24