Lights, action, holidays!

Welcome to Lizzyland: vintage meets glitter

Where do you find an Abominable Snowman, vintage elves, taxdermied rat scenes and about 100,000 lights? An d glitter — lots of glitter? “Electric Lizzyland,” neighbor Liz Simmons’ holiday yard art.

If you’ve ever found yourself cruising down Newell Avenue in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood in December, you couldn’t miss Simmons’ high-wattage handiwork. It’s Vegas, baby, with a holiday twist.And Simmons will once again set the street aglow this year.

The madness took hold in 1997 when Simmons lived on Prospect Avenue in a fourplex. On a whim, she purchased 8,000 outdoor Christmas lights. “I thought I could just throw them up and have a party,” she says.“People really liked it.”

T he happy experience cemented her sparkly fate.She remembers arriving home from work every night and firing up the glue gun to hot glue thousands of lights to the fourplex. When it was all in place and switched on, the neighbors threw a party but found that they had to take it outside. The electrical system was taxed. “ You couldn’t turn on a light in my place. We couldn’t turn on the blender to make drinks,” she says.

Simmons eventually moved to New-

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