Magic, lights draw crowds to village in Washington for Christmas [Video]

By 1930 with the sawmill gone and the railroad leaving in 1928, we ended up uh really going from about 6000 people all the way down to about 1800 people. So it was *** classic boom and bust town. But they initially called it Project Alpine. It was the first building in 1965 that got transformed. If *** commercial building now is remodeled and it’s not Bavarian, it’s going Bavarian. Uh, any new structure is going Bavarian, and they are very authentic. These folks in the building code, uh, everything that you see in town currently today will be remodeled and conformed to has to be from *** stall in Bavaria. The chamber came up with the idea of Christmas Town and having the lights on all the time starting in uh Thanksgiving and then running all the way through the beginning of the year and now all the way …