Holiday display brightens up Main Street storefront
Troll Dolls and their houses make up one half of the Christmas display at 327 S. Main on Tuesday in Kalispell.
Something old and something new.
Pam Carbonari accomplished that with one stroke this holiday season with her popular Christmas display.
She set up the old display in a new location.
Carbonari used to have the elaborate display of houses, Ferris wheels, carousels and trolls at her house on Sixth Avenue West. She no longer lives there but decided to put the display back into use.
After a five-year absence, the display was set up at the former Army/Navy building in downtown Kalispell.
The building, which is now known as the Arts and Crafts building, is located at 327 S. Main St.
The display was set up by eight people associated with the Center for Restorative Youth Justice.
“When I grew up in Minneapolis, we went” to see animated storefront displays the day after Thanksgiving, Carbonari remembered.
She incorporated that tradition when she moved to Montana.
Over the years, children brought her their two-inch trolls for use in a display at her central Kalispell home. These trolls, some 100 of them, are incorporated into the animated holiday display.
Carbonari said that the Cerevola family, which owns the store, and store manager Jerry Nix were kind enough to allow the display to be set up.
The store is currently vacant because of a boiler system that went out.
In the meantime, passers-by can enjoy some holiday scenery.