Holiday Help Christmas Lighting - Bend

11/19/2025

10/31/2025

We aren’t just Christmas decor! We love all holidays! Happy Halloween

10/23/2025

We climb ladders so you don’t have to! License, bonded and fully insured! Call for your free estimate

10/14/2025

Our Christmas light installation service doesn't stop after the lights go up. We'll store them for you, and it's absolutely free!

11/17/2022

Right now it's the local paper doing a story on our business. But don't be shocked if one day our kids take over and bring National attention!

Two Central Oregon serial entrepreneurs light up the holidays with energy saving bulbs

09/09/2022

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11/04/2021

BOOM!!! 6 weeks left until Christmas! Have you planned for your holiday light installation before the weather changes? Call or email Holiday Help Christmas Lighting!

12/05/2020

HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

In 1882, Edward Hibberd Johnson had an idea that would make him the unsung set decorator of a zillion holiday snapshots. This loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the embodiment of his era: part engineer, part businessman, part Barnum. In 1871, Johnson hired Edison, then a 24-year-old inventor, as a consultant for the Automatic Telegraph Company. Edison “ate at this desk and slept in a chair,” Johnson later recalled. “In six weeks he had gone through the books, written a volume of abstracts, and made two thousand experiments...and produced a solution.”Before long, Johnson had a bright idea. We tend to think of Christmas-season traditions as ancient, but most of them are rather recent, born in the 19th century. “A Visit From St. Nicholas” was published in 1823, and “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. Thomas Nast’s drawings of jolly Santa Claus debuted in 1862. Meanwhile, in 1841, Queen Victoria’s husband, Albert, had introduced Britain to the Teutonic tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put one up at the White House in 1856, and by the 1870s fresh-cut trees were being sold at Washington Square Park, and pretty ornaments at Macy’s.

But what really made a tree a Christmas tree were the candles, and while flickering flames were festive, they were also a fire hazard.

Over at the Edison shop, Johnson saw an opportunity. Setting up a tree by the street-side window of his parlor, Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and strung them together around it, and placed the trunk on a revolving pedestal, all powered by a generator. Then he called a reporter. “At the rear of the beautiful parlors, was a large Christmas tree presenting a most picturesque and uncanny aspect,” wrote W.A. Croffut, a veteran writer for the Detroit Post and Tribune. The lights drew a crowd as passers-by stopped to peer at the glowing marvel. Johnson turned his stunt into a tradition; he also pioneered the practice of doing more each year: An 1884 New York Times article counted 120 bulbs on his dazzling tree. Johnson’s lights were indeed ahead of their time—electricity was not yet routinely available—and they weren’t cheap. A string of 16 vaguely flame-shaped bulbs sitting in brass sockets the size of shot glasses sold for a pricey $12 (about $350 in today’s money) in 1900. But in 1894 President Cleveland put electric lights on the White House tree, and by 1914, a 16-foot string cost just $1.75. By the 1930s, colored bulbs and cones were everywhere.

11/18/2020

Christmas is just 5 weeks away! Are you ready? Call for a free quote!

11/13/2020

Stay warm, stay dry, stay safe! We got you covered!