People admire the holiday decorations at Forrest Nunley’s house on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. This is Nunley’s 30th year of setting up the display. It takes him and four other elves a month to set everything up. Laura Seitz, Deseret News
One of Salt Lake City’s largest Christmas lights display has returned for the holiday season.
Forrest Nunley has been lighting his 18th Avenue home with lights and blow molds for 30 years. Nunley and four “elves” spend a month setting up the display. Nunley greets many of his visitors and hands out candy canes and coloring books to children. “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” includes more than 330 blow molds, or illuminated figures, that can be seen from a long distance on the Avenues hillside.
Deseret News photojournalist Laura Seitz documented the beauty on a recent December night.
Zeiya Farrior, 2, and her father, Courtney Farrior, of Holladay, admire Forrest Nunley’s decorations at his home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Hundreds of blow molds are on display at Forrest Nunley’s home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Forrest Nunley’s vintage blow molds are included in the hundreds that are on display at his home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Forrest Nunley greets guests and hands out candy canes and coloring books at his home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
A vintage Santa that Forrest Nunley believes was donated by ZCMI is on display at his home in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
People admire the holiday decorations at a house on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Hundreds of blow molds are on display at Forrest Nunley’s home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Hundreds of blow molds are on display at Forrest Nunley’s home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
People admire the holiday decorations at Forrest Nunley's home on 18th Avenue in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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