We tend to think of Christmas-season traditions ... Setting up a tree by the street-side window of his parlor, Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and strung them together ...

The lights were flipped on just before 10 p.m. Spectators started lining up at 4 p.m. to enter at 48th Street or 51st Street ... through mid-January. On Christmas Eve, it will be lit for 24 ...