2024 – Hackensack’s Clinton Place – Insane Halloween Displays (Nighttime version)
……………………………………………(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on October 31, 2024)
I hadn’t originally planned to shoot this at night, having done that once before on a very crowded Halloween night, but after shooting the daytime version, I realized two things:
– For comparative reasons, I really wanted to see the nighttime version of what I just shot.
– I realized that Halloween wasn’t the only night when the street would be lit up (and less-populated).
So, off I went as soon as it got dark on October 29. I had about an hour to kill before Game 4 of the Yankees/Dodgers World Series started. And I could still park right on the magic block – something that’s impossible on Halloween.
The first thing I noticed was there was a lot less to see (and shoot) at night (not everything is lit up). I did see a couple of things that I didn’t see during the daytime shoot – some were new additions and some were just newly-inflated.
Missing was that cute (?) little laughing girl who ended the daytime post. Actually, I found her, but she was turned off and unlit.
Though I wound up not shooting from the same starting point, I’ve rearranged the night shots to roughly coincide with the daytime sequence for comparative purposes (as if someone would actually jump back and forth to check out the differences).
SO…………..we saw this guy popping through the first-floor front roof in the first “Cell Panoramics” daytime shot. MUCH more colorful at night (PANO – click to enlarge):
This one was new to me. It appears to be slowly deflating and it’s starting to hang over the fence and above the sidewalk. I guess I’m lucky to have photographed this when I did:
I think I had seen this deflated during the daytime shoot…………..WAY better at night!
Continuing the westward walk, these two seem to make a lovely couple (lotta teeth!):
Six shots into the daytime version, this guy was just standing there with no liquid and an empty tube – just a green glop-rimmed garbage can and doing nothing. Not so at night:
(looks like he’s into recycling)
This guy’s into chameleoning:
I had seen this guy just standing around during the day, but he’s developed eye (singular) problems since then:
I’m guessing there was a small dog near me when I shot this (at least I hope so).
Interesting group of people living here (PANO):
Bet you didn’t notice the frightening creature in the previous shot:
And who’s that looming above him?
He doesn’t look very happy (as I write this, there’s less than a week until Election Day:
Does Kamala have orange teeth? (That pirate stole his favorite skin color! No wonder he looks depressed.)
Another colorful guy:
This one looked good during the day and is now looking better at night:
This one’s new (I think) and looks real good:
This was easy……………rapidly-changing lights meet rapid shutter finger (PANO):
I didn’t see 7-fingered Mr. Stay-Puft last time (small PANO):
This one looks very sunburned since his daytime shot:
The three little green items say “Fright-This-Way”. (PANO):
Red version of the daytime shots:
Obviously, this one couldn’t be seen during the day with its changing lights and images:
I don’t recall seeing this one before:
No big loss………..
You get a choice here: either the mayor (it says so on his ribbon) and his attached pole stands up straight while the house is crooked OR the house is straight and the mayor is crooked (PANO):
I vote for the crooked mayor.
Mayor and constituents (PANO):
Every home should have 4 or 5 of these guys laying/hanging around:
Does this guy holding what appears to be a diploma and the location word salad posted next to him make sense now? It didn’t in the daytime version:
Apparently, it’s “Wizard of Oz”-related. “Paramus” must have thrown me off……………yeah, that’s it.
Here are three shots showing how much incredible work this homeowner did (the first two are PANOs):
I hope he just throws a giant tarp over the whole thing until next Halloween.
I don’t recall seeing this during the daytime shoot:
Too bad it isn’t sharper.
I’d have to climb up on the lawn to avoid the spotlight glare on that middle fish (PANO – click TWICE to fully-enlarge…………..and start scrolling):
Fortunately, I photographed it glare-free during the daytime shoot.
Color-wise, this beats the daytime version:
This one doesn’t:
This two-image PANO shows images in front of the same house:
On the right, there’s a blast of steam (I think) between the front coffin/wagon and the front door of the house.
The daytime version of this (my favorite shot) blows this one away:
Not my best PANO – it was only meant to show the long string of fence lights (Click twice):
This female-looking thing demonstrates her taste for other female heads (and with a tongue that long, she’s got 5 or 6 times as many taste buds than you or I do):
This former person seems to have a third eye socket:
We finish up the evening shoot with some skeleto-acrobatics:
………….just in time to get me home to watch the Yankees win Game 4, 11-4.
(Too bad they blew it and lost the Series the next night: “Cabbage Night Garbage”!)
Oh, well…………..at least Clinton Place’s Halloween wins every year!
I’m posting this on Halloween afternoon – there’s still time for you locals to check this out (but not much).
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Better in the dark, thanks Bob