NorthJersey.com
HAWTHORNE There s a subtle way to show holiday spirit, and then there s Victor Tamburro s front lawn.
It is like Shangri-La for collectors of fake snowmen.
He assembled a militia of plastic drummer boys at the north end of his lot, and he set up a 60-piece choir of carolers, with their mouths agape, at the other. Twenty angels hover above a manger, and umpteen candy canes and penguins dot the rest of the landscape on Lafayette Avenue.
No one lost track of the stooges. There are exactly three.
Tamburro, 59, said his yard display has 400 vintage pieces roughly a third of what he has stowed in his shed and under his deck. He only counts them when someone brings up the question, he said.